British engineering needs to be a little more Musk; pragmatic, ambitious and unafraid to learn in public, says Robert Rayner

Elon Musk’s rise to trillionaire status is more than a story of wealth, it is a display of how technological vision and financial resilience can merge into a new model of progress. His trillion-dollar payout is theatre as much as finance, signalling that he now operates beyond the usual limits of risk. Where most companies protect against volatility, Musk treats it as a creative tool.

From PayPal to Tesla, and on to SpaceX and Neuralink, Musk has built his career on placing technology in the hands of consumers before the market is ready for it. Each venture begins as an act of defiance against probability, regulation, or commercial logic – and ends up reshaping entire industries. His genius lies not in invention but in deployment under........

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