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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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Ashlee Vance
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From bullied child to visionary tech magnate.
Imagine you're sifting through the blueprint of the future, pieced together by the very hands that intend to build it. That's the journey this book promises, offering an intimate look at the resilience and ambition of a man responsible for spearheading the most audacious innovations of our time. If the crossroad of technology and futurism fascinates you, delving into Musk's life will feed that curiosity and perhaps inspire your own fantastic endeavors.
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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Ashlee Vance
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ISBN: 9780062469670
Authors:
Ashlee Vance
Publisher: Avon
Date of Publication: 2016-04-05
Format: Paperback
Related Topics:
Technology,
Leadership,
Entrepreneurship,
Autobiography,
Biography,
Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 4.16
(rated by 406033 readers)
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South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior. The personal tale of Musk’s life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at school, and abused by his father. In the midst of these rough conditions, and the violence of apartheid South Africa, Musk still thrived academically and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he paid his own way through school by turning his house into a club and throwing massive parties. He started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. Musk was forced out as CEO and so began his lost years in which he decided to go it alone and baffled friends by investing his fortune in rockets and electric cars. Meanwhile Musk’s marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life ... Elon Musk is the Steve Jobs of the present and the future, and for the past twelve months, he has been shadowed by
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