The biography of Elon Musk is a new look at the life of one of Silicon Valley's most interesting, unpredictable and ambitious entrepreneurs. The book presents the difficult stage of revival of American invention. Elon Musk, the businessman and innovator who founded the companies SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity, presents his unique ideas about the future. Vance gives a full profile of Musk: his difficult childhood in South Africa, his move to the US, and his dizzying successes in the most difficult circumstances.
Along with weaving the story of Musk's life, Vance tries to answer one of the most important questions of the time: can the country of inventors and creators continue the struggle in the conditions of global and uncompromising competition? He claims that Musk is a mixture of legendary inventors and industrialists: Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes and Steve Jobs. Musk is using his energy and enormous wealth to create the incredible future dreamed of by the idealists of the Golden Age of science fiction.
