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Author
Language
English
Description
Elon Musk, the renowned 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:...
4) Elon Musk
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
This is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 377 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"To some he's a genius and a visionary; to others he's a mercurial con artist. Billions of dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets; his personal exploits are the stuff of tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel, his most audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car. When Tesla was founded in the mid 2000s, electric cars were novelties, trotted out and thrown on the scrapheap by carmakers...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the historic quest to rekindle the human exploration of space as navigated by billionaire entrepreneurs, sharing insights into how professional rivalry and Silicon Valley innovations are lowering the cost of space travel and exceeding the achievements of NASA.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 474 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A definitive look at the origin of PayPal and its founding team--including Elon Musk, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and many others whose stories have never been shared. They have defined the modern world. This experience defined them."--
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 330 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Using a fresh and innovative combination of interview, archive, and animated content is an intimate journey into the lives and minds of some of the world's most compelling men and women.
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