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.
