Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future /
Vance, Ashlee,
Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future / Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future. Ashlee Vance. - First Ecco paperback edition. - London : Virgin Books, 2015. - 402 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
"With new and updated material" -- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9780062301253 9780062667274 006230125X 0062667270
Musk, Elon.
Tesla Motors.
SpaceX (Firm)
PayPal (Firm)
Businesspeople
Businesspeople
Inventors
Technological innovations--United States--Biography.--South Africa--Biography.--Biography.--Economic aspects.
920.65 / VAN
Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future / Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future. Ashlee Vance. - First Ecco paperback edition. - London : Virgin Books, 2015. - 402 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
"With new and updated material" -- Cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9780062301253 9780062667274 006230125X 0062667270
Musk, Elon.
Tesla Motors.
SpaceX (Firm)
PayPal (Firm)
Businesspeople
Businesspeople
Inventors
Technological innovations--United States--Biography.--South Africa--Biography.--Biography.--Economic aspects.
920.65 / VAN