Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Audiobook (Free)

In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of 1 of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs-a real-life Tony Stark-and a remarkable exploration of the renewal of American invention and its fresh “makers.”

Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet businesses, about Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc from the genius’s life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and air travel to the United States to his dramatic technical improvements and entrepreneurial pursuits.

Vance uses Musk’s tale to explore one of the pressing queries of our age group: can the nation of inventors and designers who led the modern world for a hundred years still compete in a day and time of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk-one of the most unusual and striking numbers in American business history-is a contemporary, visionary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Careers. More than every other business owner today, Musk has devoted his energies and his personal vast fortune to inventing another that’s as wealthy and far-reaching as the visionaries from the golden age group of science-fiction fantasy.

Thorough and insightful, Elon Musk brings to life a technology industry that’s rapidly and dramatically changing by examining the life span of 1 of its most powerful and influential titans.