Screen LibraryElon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future /
Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United St...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses Musk's story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk |
| Carrier Form: | 392 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780062301239 0062301233 0062301268 9780062301260 075355562X 9780753555620 0753555638 9780753555637 |
| Index Number: | HC102 |
| CLC: | K837.125.38 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.38/M987V |
| Contents: | Elon's world -- Africa -- Canada -- Elon's first start-up -- PayPal mafia boss -- Mice in space -- All electric -- Pain, suffering and survival -- Liftoff -- The revenge of the electric car -- The unified field theory of Elon Musk. |