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    Summary and Analysis of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future: Based on the Book by Ashlee Vance
    Summary and Analysis of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future: Based on the Book by Ashlee Vance
    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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    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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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Elon Musk tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Ashlee Vance’s book.
     
    Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
     
    This short summary and analysis of Elon Musk includes:
     
    • Historical context
    • Chapter-by-chapter overviews
    • Profiles of the main characters
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    • Fascinating trivia
    • Glossary of terms
    • Supporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work
     
    About Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance:
     
    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. 
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 11, 2017
    ISBN9781504044974
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      Summary and Analysis of Elon Musk - Worth Books

      Contents

      Context

      Overview

      Summary

      Timeline

      Cast of Characters

      Direct Quotes and Analysis

      Trivia

      What’s That Word?

      Critical Response

      About Ashlee Vance

      For Your Information

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      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.

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