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Elon Musk : Tesla, Spacex, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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Inspirational tale of a tech visionary.

This book is a great pick for anyone interested in entrepreneurship or technology. It covers the life of Elon Musk, one of the most innovative minds of our time, capturing his tumultuous upbringing, his work with SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, and how he sold PayPal for $1.5 billion. Vance does an excellent job of bringing Musk's story to life, exploring the pressing question of whether America can still compete with the rest of the world in an age of global competition. The book is an inspiration and shows how one individual can reshape entire industries, creating a future that was once only the stuff of science fiction.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Elon Musk : Tesla, Spacex, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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ISBN: 9780062469670
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $13.95
Publisher: Avon Books
Date of Publication: 2016-04-05
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.2
(rated by 354504 readers)

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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 entrepreneurs-a real-life Tony Stark-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 Musk-one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business history-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 titans.


Author: Ashlee Vance
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 448
Publisher: Avon Books
Publication Date: 05 Apr 2016
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Inspirational tale of a tech visionary.

This book is a great pick for anyone interested in entrepreneurship or technology. It covers the life of Elon Musk, one of the most innovative minds of our time, capturing his tumultuous upbringing, his work with SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, and how he sold PayPal for $1.5 billion. Vance does an excellent job of bringing Musk's story to life, exploring the pressing question of whether America can still compete with the rest of the world in an age of global competition. The book is an inspiration and shows how one individual can reshape entire industries, creating a future that was once only the stuff of science fiction.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.