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Loading... Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (original 2015; edition 2015)by Ashlee Vance (Author)
Work InformationElon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance (Author) (2015)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This was an interesting and worthwhile insight into Musk’s life. Like many of these kinds of biographies about public figures who are still alive, it fell short on details sometimes - disappointingly even historical details that set the scene more in the early years. But still worth a read if you want to know more about the man, his approach to work, and his ambitions. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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HTML: In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneursâ??a real-life Tony Starkâ??and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new "makers." Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses Musk's story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Muskâ??one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business historyâ??is a contemporary, visionary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. More than any other entrepreneur today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy. Thorough and insightful, Elon Musk brings to life a technology industry that is rapidly and dramatically changing by examining the life of one of its most powerful and influential No library descriptions found. |
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