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.
| ISBN: | 9780062301239 |
| Publication date: | 19th May 2015 |
| Author: | Ashlee Vance |
| Publisher: | Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 392 pages |
| Genres: |
Autobiography: business and industry |
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.
Elon Musk features in the following genres: Autobiography: business and industry
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Elon Musk was written by Ashlee Vance and published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Elon Musk has 392 pages