Elon Musk
How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Is Shaping Our Future
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4.6 • 169 Ratings
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Life changing
One of the best book I have ever read in my life. Life-changing book
An outstanding read…
His life story is makes for an interesting story, albeit a one-sided narrative which depicts Musk in an extremely positive light.
Truly Inspirational and Deeply Moving
When I first started to read this book my goal was to learn about Elon musk and his vision and missions. I treated the book just as a way to inform me about the complexity of the space and automotive industry. But as I sunk deeper into the beauty of the book I felt a sense of excitement and energy run through my body. Words cannot express the amount of respect I have towards Mr Musk and his sacrifices for the better future. Truly inspirational and just eye opening. I hope that more leaders look at Mr Musk as a guide to view the world. I recommend this book to ages 12+. (I read this at 15)