10 Most Interesting Companies In The World

#5 Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA)/SpaceX

We’re cheating a bit on this one, but we’ll lump Tesla and SpaceX together, as they’re headed by the same mastermind, Elon Musk. Regardless of what you think of Tesla’s viability as an investment, it’s undeniable that Musk’s companies are aggressively pushing the envelope and that push is leaving a lot of excited believers in its wake.

Tesla definitely deserves to be on this list of most interesting companies in the world because it’s a pioneer in the electric vehicle space and now the self-driving vehicle space. The company’s Model S has consistently ranked at the top of customer satisfaction surveys, trouncing its EV rivals on that front, and it’s now gearing up for its mass market debut with the Model 3, to be released later this year. To that end, the company is spending billions to build a gigantic battery factory in Nevada to keep pace with the expected increase in demand for its vehicles.

On the SpaceX front, what’s more interesting than the possibility of one day colonizing Mars, which is one of the company’s long-term goals? Aside from that SpaceX has carried out several missions and set several firsts as a publicly-funded space exploration company. SpaceX is also in the process of building a satellite development facility, with the main goal being to increase the company’s revenue for its Mars ambitions.