Meanwhile Musk’s marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life …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. 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. 'Elon Musk' Biography - 8/10 (HONEST BOOK REVIEW) Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future is Ashlee Vance's biography. Vance (Geek Silicon Valley) paints a complicated picture of a complicated man in this biography of Silicon Valley tycoon Elon Musk. Author Ashlee Vance traveled the globe to learn more about elusive commercial space. 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. Vance is intimately familiar with Elon Musk he released a biography on the infamous tech mogul in 2015. South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. If you’re a fan of the so-called real-life Tony Stark and his lifework Tesla and SpaceX I suggest you read Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance.

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