Download Audiobook Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance in English

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Within the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is each an illuminating and licensed have a look at the extraordinary lifetime of one in all Silicon Valley’s most enjoyable, unpredictable, and impressive entrepreneurs – a real-life Tony Stark – and a captivating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new makers. Elon Musk spotlights the expertise and imaginative and prescient of Elon Musk, the famend entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who offered one in all his Web corporations, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the total spectacle and arc of the genius’ life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the US to his dramatic technical improvements and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance makes use of Musk’s story to discover one of many urgent questions of our age: Can the nation of inventors and creators who led the trendy world for a century nonetheless compete in an age of fierce international competitors? He argues that Musk – probably the most uncommon and hanging figures in American enterprise historical past – is a up to date, visionary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists, together with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. Greater than every other entrepreneur as we speak, Musk has devoted his energies and his personal huge fortune to inventing a future that’s as wealthy and much reaching because the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy.