Elon Musk Elon Musk

Elon Musk

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A remarkable man in possession of limitless curiosity and intellect, Elon Musk makes a fascinating subject.


Tech reporter Ashlee Vance has shadowed him for a year to bring us an engaging and deeply personal account of the man who wants to send us into outer space.

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, Jr. 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 12 months he has been shadowed by tech reporter Ashlee Vance. Elon Musk is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.

© Ashlee Vance 2015 (P) Penguin Audio 2016

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
FS
Fred Sanders
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
13:23
hr min
RELEASED
2016
28 April
PUBLISHER
Ebury Publishing
SIZE
818.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Rosanna Magic ,

Inspired!

Thoroughly enjoyed this well informed book on Elon Musk’s life. Highly recommended the read.

Darren_78 ,

Amazing audiobook.

Tells his story very well. Was very enjoyable!

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