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South African born Elon Musk is the rewned entrepreneur and invator 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 kw 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 techlogical 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherVirgin Books, Ebury Publishing
ISBN-100753555638
ISBN-139780753555637
eBay Product ID (ePID)212222912
Product Key Features
Book TitleElon Musk: How the Billionaire Ceo of Spacex and Tesla Is Shaping Our Future
AuthorAshlee Vance
FormatTrade Paperback (United Kingdom), Paperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicEvolution, Business
Publication Year2015
TypeTextbook
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Dimensions
Item Height234mm
Item Width153mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorAshlee Vance
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom