In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new "makers."
Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who 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—one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business history—is a contemporary, visionary 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.
Thorough and insightful, Elon Musk brings to life a technology industry that is rapidly and dramatically changing by examining the life of one of its most powerful and influential titans.

排名超越Google、蘋果，名列全球最聰明企業的特斯拉電動車，如何讓技術好到其他汽車大廠都需要它？
史上第一家為國際太空站運輸物資的私人航太公司SpaceX，如何以不可思議的低成本，一再創造科學與商業的奇蹟？
十七歲就離家勇闖天涯的馬斯克，從一個在加拿大四處打工的背包客、兩度被自己一手創立的公司踢出門，蛻變成為今日全球百大影響力人物，更從矽谷IT界，跨足太空業、稱霸電動車，這位非典型連續創業家首度公開的創新祕密，將徹底改變你對未來的想像！
馬斯克跟賈伯斯一樣，都被稱為「改變世界的科技狂人」，但他的夢想顯然更大也更瘋狂。賣座電影「鋼鐵人」就是以馬斯克為原型，他是風格獨具的夢想家、創業家與工業家，也是眼光獨到、一再開創新商業模式的企業家。
他史無前例的跨領域挑起四大尖端產業的革命，從PayPal，到成立SpaceX、特斯拉、太陽城與推出Hyperloop計畫，每個事業歷程都非常棘手，他卻能讓每次突破都讓全球驚豔。
向馬斯克學狂想與實做，掌握新思潮，了解這一代創業家、企業家缺少什麼？哪一種產業、行業、能力最被低估？工作者如何面對新時代？你也可以成為主導自己未來的鋼鐵人：
● 關於進步：科技創新很重要，但不能局限於資訊科技
● 關於工作：設計電玩是有趣，但製造電池、新材料、火箭更酷
● 關於行業：投入網路能致富，但工程師才是21世紀的魔術師
● 關於創業：專注在對的方向，並對混亂處之泰然
● 關於信念：不盲目跟隨潮流，要從最根本的真理思考
● 關於團隊：找到最厲害的人，一起發明新東西
● 關於人生：可以失敗，不可以放棄
● 關於未來：每個人、每個企業都要突破你的小宇宙
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全球首部馬斯克授權專訪傳記，由《彭博商業週刊》資深科技記者范思歷時近三年完成，專訪馬斯克與他的家人、朋友、旗下事業裡的主管與鮮少曝光的技術核心人物，以及他的對手和曾與他為敵、最後卻又忍不住投資他新事業的人，受訪人數多達300人，最深入的第一手訪談與觀察，獨家揭露這位新矽谷傳奇人物如何勝過賈伯斯與蓋茲！
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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

South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. 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. He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey Junior.





The personal tale of Musk’s life comes with all the trappings one associates with a great, drama-filled story. He was a freakishly bright kid who was bullied brutally at school, and abused by his father. 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 started a pair of huge dot-com successes, including PayPal, which eBay acquired for $1.5 billion in 2002. 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. Meanwhile Musk’s marriage disintegrated as his technological obsessions took over his life ...





Elon 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. Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping our Future is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.

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In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs, Elon Musk—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers”

Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who 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—one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business history—is a contemporary, visionary 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.

Thorough and insightful, Elon Musk brings to life a technology industry that is rapidly and dramatically changing by examining the life of one of its most powerful and influential titans.