Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future / Ashlee Vance.
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TextPublication details: London Penguin 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 392 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780062301239
- 0062301233
- 075355562X
- 9780753555620
- 0753555638
- 9780753555637
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Musk, Elon
- Musk, Elon
- Musk, Elon, 1971-
- Tesla Motors
- SpaceX (Firm)
- PayPal (Firm)
- PayPal (Firm)
- SpaceX (Firm)
- Tesla Motors
- Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography
- Businesspeople -- South Africa -- Biography
- Inventors -- Biography
- Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
- Innovations technologiques
- Biographies
- Inventeurs
- Hommes d'affaires
- Aspects économiques
- Businesspeople
- Inventors
- Technological innovations -- Economic aspects
- Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Afrique du Sud
- South Africa
- United States
- 338.092 VAN-A B 23
- HC102.5.M88 V36 2015
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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 tech reporter, Ashlee Vance. Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping our Future is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-392)
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.
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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