TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vance,Ashlee
TI  - Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future 
SN  - 9780753555637
U1  - 338.76292293092	 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Virgin Books
KW  - Musk, Elon.
KW  - Musk, Elon,
KW  - Tesla Motors
KW  - SpaceX (Firm)
KW  - PayPal (Firm)
KW  - fast
KW  - Businesspeople
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Inventors
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Innovations technologiques
KW  - eclas
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Inventeurs
KW  - Hommes d'affaires
KW  - Aspects économiques
KW  - Etats-Unis d'Amérique
KW  - Afrique du Sud
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-392); 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
N2  - 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 is an amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. More than any other entrepreneur today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy
ER  -