Penned by veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance, the bestselling title traces the life of the South African-born entrepreneur, inventor and engineer, from his rough upbringing to his rise as a global business magnate.

But it’s the first one that Musk cooperated with-he spent 30 hours with the author-so it’s one of the most detailed (and personal) to date. This isn’t the first book we’ve seen about Elon Musk and it probably won’t be the last. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping our Future is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.So, exactly which books-and whose lives-are worth reading about? It’s truly impossible to list them all, but here are four powerful reads to get you started.ġ. Įlon Musk is the Steve Jobs of the present and the future, and for the past twelve months, he has been shadowed by tech reporter, Ashlee Vance.

Meanwhile Musk’s marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life. Musk was forced out as CEO and so began his lost years in which he decided to go it alone and baffled friends by investing his fortune in rockets and electric cars. He started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. In the midst of these rough conditions, and the violence of apartheid South Africa, Musk still thrived academically and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he paid his own way through school by turning his house into a club and throwing massive parties. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at school, and abused by his father. The personal tale of Musk’s life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior. Musk wants to save our planet he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars he wants to make money while doing these things and he wants us all to know about it. South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity.

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