Elon Musk Elon Musk

Elon Musk

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
FS
Fred Sanders
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
13:23
hr min
RELEASED
2015
May 19
PUBLISHER
HarperAudio
SIZE
655.6
MB

Customer Reviews

dofficial21 ,

New Insight into the Future.

Like many, Elon is one of those figures that have left me pondering about the Inter-dynamics of how people like himself compares to your everyday Joe and why even though some might face the same contingents in upbringing, financial and educational holdbacks and many others of life’s obstacles do only few choose to seek perseverance and pursue perpetual ambition while the majority fall victim to their surroundings. A truly incredible biography on a vastly intriguing character. Thank you for the read.

Subrosa1 ,

Well written but poorly narrated

Note to Fred Sanders: it’s Linux, not Lie-nex

Top Shotta 5* ,

Different side of Elon you don’t get to hear about in 2021

Overall a great book to listen to

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