Book Review Elon Musk
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 2015
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GENRE Biography, Science & technology
AUTHOR Ashley Vance
PAGES 363
YEAR OF PUBLISH 2015
Elon Musk on Entrepreneurship
"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death."
Book Summary Elon Musk
- Ashlee Vance, in the biography of the rockstar industrialist Elon Musk, delivers a notion of an American soul. An early Facebook engineer tells Mr. Vance, “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” The author quotes the venture capitalist Peter Thiel: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”
- If Silicon Valley was holding out for a hero after Steve Jobs' death,a disrupted in chief, it has found a brawny one in Mr. Musk.
- This South African-born entrepreneur, inventor, and engineer is the animating force behind companies (Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity) that have made startling advances in non-indoor-cat arenas: electric cars, space exploration, and solar energy. He is all of 43.
- The book successfully captures the life of one of the most adventure entrepreneurs. From the initial stages of his life, when he developed a computer game at 12 to his latest projects on Hyperloop and SolarCity, Asley covered his success, failures, taking tough decisions and his never die spirit.
- Musk is a man with enormous energy. One cannot find him idle. The reader easily pictures and can fall into Musk's way of doing things.
- What I liked about this book is, from Ashley's writing, you can be a part of the Musk's world. Here you will feel his trauma, joys, and the way he conducts his daily operations.
- The way he carries himself at a professional and personal level. Probably we need more people like Elon Musk who can re-frame the future. The book will help readers to push their potential. The limit to mankind should be limitless.
- Ashlee Vance, in the biography of the rockstar industrialist Elon Musk, delivers a notion of an American soul. An early Facebook engineer tells Mr. Vance, “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” The author quotes the venture capitalist Peter Thiel: “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.”
- If Silicon Valley was holding out for a hero after Steve Jobs' death,a disrupted in chief, it has found a brawny one in Mr. Musk.
- This South African-born entrepreneur, inventor, and engineer is the animating force behind companies (Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity) that have made startling advances in non-indoor-cat arenas: electric cars, space exploration, and solar energy. He is all of 43.
- The book successfully captures the life of one of the most adventure entrepreneurs. From the initial stages of his life, when he developed a computer game at 12 to his latest projects on Hyperloop and SolarCity, Asley covered his success, failures, taking tough decisions and his never die spirit.
- Musk is a man with enormous energy. One cannot find him idle. The reader easily pictures and can fall into Musk's way of doing things.
- What I liked about this book is, from Ashley's writing, you can be a part of the Musk's world. Here you will feel his trauma, joys, and the way he conducts his daily operations.
- The way he carries himself at a professional and personal level. Probably we need more people like Elon Musk who can re-frame the future. The book will help readers to push their potential. The limit to mankind should be limitless.
Book Review Elon Musk
What I found beneath Elon was the self abnegation of fame getting into spotlights of many brilliant, extraordinary minds like J.B Straubel, Gwanne Shotwell, Tom Mueller, Jeremy Hollman, Kevin Brogan, Dave Lyons and Ali Javidan and his acquaintances like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Richard Branson, Michael Griffin who helped in big time for Elon to get his image I see as a young, science enthusiastic lad.
After reading just the first chapter of Ashlee Vance's 'Elon Musk', I couldn't put the book down. From the outset this is an engaging insight into the enigma who is Musk.Prior to reading the book, I thought that my knowledge of Musk was pretty good. However, I still found there was a new surprise on every page. Vance has done well to capture a story of the billionaire's background, from bullied schoolboy to minimum wage worker, right through to him becoming one of the most pioneering minds of a generation.
It is an honest and fair portrayal of both his family and business life, a pleasure to read and delves just enough into the areas of interest in the subject's life.
Anyone looking for some inspiration should definitely buy this book.
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What I found beneath Elon was the self abnegation of fame getting into spotlights of many brilliant, extraordinary minds like J.B Straubel, Gwanne Shotwell, Tom Mueller, Jeremy Hollman, Kevin Brogan, Dave Lyons and Ali Javidan and his acquaintances like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Richard Branson, Michael Griffin who helped in big time for Elon to get his image I see as a young, science enthusiastic lad.
After reading just the first chapter of Ashlee Vance's 'Elon Musk', I couldn't put the book down. From the outset this is an engaging insight into the enigma who is Musk.
Prior to reading the book, I thought that my knowledge of Musk was pretty good. However, I still found there was a new surprise on every page. Vance has done well to capture a story of the billionaire's background, from bullied schoolboy to minimum wage worker, right through to him becoming one of the most pioneering minds of a generation.
It is an honest and fair portrayal of both his family and business life, a pleasure to read and delves just enough into the areas of interest in the subject's life.
Anyone looking for some inspiration should definitely buy this book.
Looking forward to read it 🤩
ReplyDeleteSpirit of entrepreneurship is what keeps the world progressing and creating something new and exciting for mankind as time passes. The entrepreneurs have a tough time, as the quote by Elon Musk itself suggests, but their grit to keep going is what separates these beings from the rest. Good review and a worthy read.
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