My Rating: 4.6
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
There are things I like about Musk and things I do NOT like about him. I wanted to understand him more so got this audio book for us to listen to. I finished the book admiring him and being leery of him. He is brilliant and cut throat, genius and scary. I am just as divided in my feelings for him as most people who know him intimately. You do have to admire many things about him while also recognizing his many negative traits. Interesting read.
As always, great review of this book. I agree, Musk is interesting but divisive.
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Yeah, I am a little nervous about him being ok if AI ends mankind as well.
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