Elon Musk: The Visionary Entrepreneur and His Journey to Transform the Future with Tesla and SpaceX

dawid.b: Ein inspirierendes Buch über das Leben und die Visionen von Elon Musk. Die Autorin hat seine Geschichte fesselnd dargestellt und beleuchtet, wie er die Zukunft gestaltet. Musk ist zweifellos ein bemerkenswerter Unternehmer, und dieses Buch vermittelt tiefe Einblicke in sein Denken und seine Projekte. Eine empfehlenswerte Lektüre für alle, die sich für Innovation und Technologie interessieren.

Germany on Nov 06, 2023

Adrilla Horton: Unarguably an intensive microscopic look into the mind of one-of-a-kind human being.Competitive, spectacular and limitless insight; goal inspired and driven. Nature and nurture working in compelling harmony to transform life’s experiences for all. Exhilarating read.

United States on Oct 24, 2023

Andrew Donaldson a.k.a. Andrew Barris: Nothing else to say. But because of his intelligence. It's a Killer read!

United States on Oct 21, 2023

Max Parker: I am a fan of Elon Musk, and wanted to know better his life-path and history of his companies.
This is the first book about him that I read, so I tried to select the best one.
Professional author, made an extensive homework, personally interviewed Musk several times and talked hundreds of times to his co-workers, relatives and friends. The book presents the detailed story up to the year 2014.

United States on Oct 18, 2023

Muthu: This book would inspire reader to pursue things that benefits makind in some way or the other.

It was well narrated by the author and grouping on story into segment was bit confusing for me from timeline standpoint to follow

Overall it's a very good read

India on Sep 12, 2023

AnandAnand: This fascinating biography, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance, lights up the resilient American spirit in its portrayal of an ambitious visionary, an inspiring dreamer, and a persistent doer and innovator. Elon Musk, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur (to say the least), has the indomitable will to carry off what most others deem impossible while at the same time receiving negative bashings in the media – through failures and successes. Musk, born in South Africa, is a personality that was destined to thrive in America. He created a uniquely American story like nothing else.

elon-musk-coverMusk’s family history is generation after generation of adventurous, risk-taking and highly intelligent people. As a child, he devoured all books in sight and resorted to reading through two sets of encyclopedias as well. “Vacuuming books into his brain,” he was considered a “fact factory,” with a “photographic memory.” Author Vance notes that not all of Musk’s childhood acquaintances appreciated his gifted mind, and some saw him as a target for bullying. As a teen, Musk left South Africa without his parents; first moving to Canada...

India on Sep 30, 2018

Ujjwal BiswasUjjwal Biswas: So good to have this book, if u wanna buy go for it

India on May 03, 2018

Amit sarawagi: I just finished reading Elon Musk’s biography. Musk has always been my hero and this book sure did justice. One quality that I really admire in him is his ability to set clear vision. Once he sets the vision, Elon gives his blood, sweat and tears to make it a reality. People laughed at him when he first announced his vision on inter-planetary life. Since then he demonstrated significant enhancements in rocket technology and was able to produce a re-usable rocket. The analogy he gives is that of commercial plane, imagine after every flight between London and LA you throw away the plane how expensive will be your air ticket. Elon says his reusable rockets will make space travel 100 times cheaper. His reusability concept is brought to life with Falcon 9’s successful landing back on earth. Recently Elon presented how he plans to take humans to Mars in 2022 and build a city. SpaceX’s BFR project will carry 100 crew members along with equipment needed to set up a colony. He is not our typical Silicon Valley techie who wants to create a multi-million dollar corporation and cash out. His goals are bigger than money and fame. He wants to make a significant impact on humanity and make...

India on Nov 03, 2017

Herve Lebret: Elon Musk is probably the new Steve Jobs. He might be much more even. His early life, his private life has not been simple and easy. He is probably as tough with a similar distorted perception of reality as the Apple hero. But as an entrepreneur, he may have a broader vision and ambition. He began small and simple with Zip2, an early Internet yellow pages start-up, which he still sold for $307M, followed by X.com which had the ambition to change the banking system before it merged with Confinity to become Paypal. Both were just experiments! He learnt and developed his “grandes oeuvres”: Tesla and SpaceX.

Ashlee Vance has just written a remarkable and fascinating book Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for A Fantastic Future about his life and achievements.

Zip2 – 1995 – 3 co-founders (Elon and Kimbal Musk, Greg Kouri) $3M with MDV – sold to Compaq / AltaVista for $307M on April 1, 1999 after more than $50M additional funding. Elon made $22M, Kimbal $15M, MDV 22x its money.

X.com – 1999 – 4 co-founders (Ed Ho, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, Elon Musk) and early employee, Scott Anderson. Bill Harris, CEO in Dec. 99. Merges with Confinity...

United States on Sep 02, 2015

Paige Turner: This book is well researched, and the author had great access to Elon Musk. The style is fast paced, yet detailed enough to give some great insight into the man and his companies. I thoroughly enjoyed it and believe it is a “must-read” for anyone investing in Tesla stock or its competitors.

I do have a couple of criticisms: first, the part about the Justine Musk divorce was a nearly word for word copy of her blog describing her side of the story. I was shocked by how similar it was. Also, the last chapter "unified field theory of Elon Musk" seemed to be unnecessary padding, wasting time on other people's opinions on Musk. It didn’t fit into the biography. Perhaps it was an attempt to ensure that the book doesn't come across as hagiography.

Some interesting points about Elon Musk:
1. He eats fast
2. He has had a challenging life: the loss of an infant, a brutal upbringing in South Africa, pushed out of companies he co-founded, nearly going broke in 2008, divorces
3. Late bloomer; he was more ambitious in college than he was in high school
4. Extremely hard worker; for the first three months of his first start-up he and his brother literally lived in...

United States on Jun 02, 2015