If you're drawn to stories of audacity and innovation, this biography will resonate with you. Ashlee Vance paints a comprehensive portrait of Elon Musk, revealing the successes and failures of a man whose vision stretches beyond conventional limits. It’s an inspiring read that showcases the complexities of tackling industries ripe for change and the relentless spirit needed to succeed in the tech frontier.

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• Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2015)
• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology (2015)

Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, 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 is an 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

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