Summary and Analysis of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future: Based on the Book by Ashlee Vance
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The bestselling biography Elon Musk offers a vigorous look at the most famous entrepreneur of our time. Ashlee Vance’s tough reporting, exclusive access to Musk’s friends and family, and years on the technology beat for Bloomberg Businessweek have enabled him to paint a picture of the most interesting man in the industry.
Elon Musk is behind the modern electric vehicle at Tesla and has revolutionized the cost and convenience of spaceflight at his rocket company, SpaceX. In addition to these major business and technological success stories, Musk cofounded PayPal, which was sold to eBay for $1.5 billion, and sold Zip2 to Compaq during the dotcom boom.
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Contents
Context
Overview
Summary
Timeline
Cast of Characters
Direct Quotes and Analysis
Trivia
What’s That Word?
Critical Response
About Ashlee Vance
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Bibliography
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Context
When Ashlee Vance’s book Elon Musk was released in May of 2015, Elon had been a titanic figure in Silicon Valley for more than a decade. But his time in the worldwide spotlight was just beginning. When the Silicon Valley innovator and entrepreneur released his Tesla Model X SUV, he became a household name. As head of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk is known as a visionary and a doer. Ashlee Vance’s biography reveals how he has accomplished so much in such a short period of time.
Musk joins the ranks of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs, American businessmen who generate a large amount of press interest due to their technological innovations. There are stories about Musk serving as an inspiration for fictional billionaire superhero Tony Stark in Iron Man. He has a hand in several of the most powerful companies of our time: PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, Solar City, and Zip2—companies which have changed how we use money, how we travel, how we make energy, and perhaps, one day, which planet we live on. Tech journalist Ashlee Vance was given exclusive access to the industrialist, allowing him to write what the Financial Times called a riveting portrait of Silicon Valley’s most driven entrepreneur since Steve Jobs.
Overview
Elon Musk is a fascinating biography of perhaps the most famous entrepreneur, inventor, and industrialist of our time. From his beginnings as a boy growing up in Apartheid-era South Africa, to his university days in Canada, to his startup adventures in Silicon Valley, and, finally, to his triumphs as the head of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, Elon Musk reveals the story behind the man in the headlines.
Although many people know about Musk’s current empire, Vance’s biography explores his difficult formative years, the near failure of several of his companies, and the ups and downs of his unique path to success.
As the