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In the heart of Steve Careers and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and official look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious enterprisers - a real-life Tony Stark - and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American technology and its new makers. Elon Musk spotlights the technology and perspective of Elon Musk, the renowned businessperson and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance catches the full spectacle and arc of the genius' life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to america to his dramatic technical enhancements and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses Musk's tale to explore one of the pressing questions in our get older: Can the nation of inventors and makers who led the modern world for a hundred years still compete in an age of brutal global competition? He argues that Musk - one of the very most unusual and striking statistics in American business record - is a contemporary, visionary amalgam of famous inventors and industrialists, including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Careers. More than some other businessperson today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own great fortune to inventing another that is as rich and far reaching as the visionaries of the golden get older of science-fiction dream.