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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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Fred Sanders

13 Hours 24 Minutes

HarperAudio

May 2015

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A New York Times Bestseller

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.

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  • Anonymous

    great book

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  • Anonymous

    Great book and the narrator was really good as well. Highly recommend!! Dives deep into the struggles and success

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  • Elizabeth L

    Very well written, Vance explained lots of interesting facts about Musk and his companies without boring me.

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  • Navjot Singh

    Elon Musk is a great entrepreneur. He really showed how one person can have a courage to change the world if you set a target or goal and focus on it. It doesn\'t matter what happens along the way. People will hate you, some will leave you, some will drag you down but you don\'t care what people say or think. You must do what you think or what you want to do.

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  • Anonymous

    Good read, I’m looking forward to the update.

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  • Anastasia Z.

    Interesting book, many curious facts

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  • David G.

    Funny, informative, and thought provoking.

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  • Anonymous

    Fascinating read. Well narrated.

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  • Anonymous

    Interesting book indeed although a bit too long in company overviews.

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  • Richard B.

    Wow, excellent writing on an important human. I had no idea his companies came so close to bankruptcy. I didn't know Tesla is the only successful major US car company since Chrysler hit the market 70 or so years ago. the index portions are also interesting. I strongly disagree that we need to waste trillions of dollars putting humans on a dead planet with little sunlight, but I respect Musk's passion for Mars anyways.

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