Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future / Ashlee Vance.
2015
HC102.5.M88 V36 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future / Ashlee Vance.
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Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780062301239 (hardcover)
0062301233 (hardcover)
0062301233 (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
392 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Call Number
HC102.5.M88 V36 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.7/6292293092 B
608
608
Summary
Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, 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 is an 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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Table of Contents
Elon's world
Africa
Canada
Elon's first start-up
PayPal mafia boss
Mice in space
All electric
Pain, suffering and survival
Liftoff
The revenge of the electric car
The unified field theory of Elon Musk.
Africa
Canada
Elon's first start-up
PayPal mafia boss
Mice in space
All electric
Pain, suffering and survival
Liftoff
The revenge of the electric car
The unified field theory of Elon Musk.