An edition of Elon Musk (2013)

Elon Musk

Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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An edition of Elon Musk (2013)

Elon Musk

Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

  • 4.1 (144 ratings) ·
  • 1,179 Want to read
  • 135 Currently reading
  • 143 Have read

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. - Publisher.

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Language
English
Pages
392

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Cover of: Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
Apr 24, 2016, Virgin Books
Cover of: Elon Musk
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
2015, Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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Table of Contents

Elon's world
Africa
Canada
Elon's first start-up
PayPal mafia boss
Mice in space
All electric
Pain, suffering and survival
Liftoff
The revenge of the electric car
The unified field theory of Elon Musk
Epilogue
Appendixes.
Intrigue surrounding Zip2, Musk's academic record
Musk's time at Paypal and the coup
Memo to SpaceX personnel : going public

Edition Notes

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New York, USA

Classifications

Library of Congress
HC102.5.M87 V36 2015, HC102.5.M88 V36 2015, HC102.5.M88V36 2015

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
392 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates
Number of pages
392
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25755973M
Internet Archive
elonmuskteslaspa0000vanc_v0j1
ISBN 10
0062301233
ISBN 13
9780062301239
LCCN
bl2015015382, 2016449670
OCLC/WorldCat
881436803
Wikidata
Q20718232

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