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Elon Musk
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 04-28-16
- Language: English
- Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Regular price: $25.58
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Publisher's Summary
South African-born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator 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 know about it.
He is the real-life inspiration for the Iron Man series of films starring Robert Downey, Jr. 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 technological obsessions took over his life...
Elon Musk is the Steve Jobs of the present and the future, and for the past 12 months he has been shadowed by tech reporter Ashlee Vance. Elon Musk is an important, exciting and intelligent account of the real-life Iron Man.
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- innovate risk
- Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- 10-26-17
Fascinating insight
This is an excellent audio book onto the insights of Elon Musk. In particular the first half provides a brilliant view of his background, his leadership style and the type of personality that drives such an interesting person.
I did find the second half of the book a bit too much about the industry of space exploration, electric cars and solar power. This meant you were losing the insights into the person, and it became a more technical book on the industry.
Overall a great read but perhaps this should have been 2 books - one about the person and one about the industries.
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- Alison Cope
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Fascinating
I found Elon's story really fascinating but I would have liked to hear more from Elon himself.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-13-18
Excellent Book
Loved the book and the narrator was really good. Easy to listen to. Put the book on everyday while working.
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- Fabrice Kabongo
- 06-12-16
Very inspiring!
when you listen to this book, you know your dream of changing the world can be achieved
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- Adriaan
- 01-08-19
Insightful, honest & Inspiring!
This is an awesome listen / read. Well researched autobiography of an inspirational individual. Recommended for anyone who desires an honest perspective into Elon Musk. For me his story is inspiring and insightful.
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- himanshu ujjawal Singh
- 01-03-19
great read and inspiring but seems a bit biased
the narrative is exciting and provides a deep view of the way Elon thinks and works. there seems to be a bit of bias though as the critical views are discussed off-handedly and in a summarising manner.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-11-18
Great book.
Awesome book, although i found the reader's South African accent imitation quite bad.
Exelent for anyone who loves technology.
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- Vj
- 12-06-18
It gives insight into Elon's world
It gives insight into Elon's world. The amount of hard work he does in all his ventures
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- Manoj
- 10-21-18
Very good insights into Elon and his businesses
If you also have a passion for knowing more about new tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs then you’d like it.. also gives insights into why and how things are at his companies like Tesla, SpaceX, PayPal, etc..
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- Anonymous User
- 09-19-18
My review on Elon musk
This has been the most eye-opening book I've had to consume so far this year. I totally loved how every section of the book has been laid out, from, spaceX, to Tesla, to Solarcity. I must admit I've gained a lot of clarifications on what has been the centre of engagements online on social platforms; touching on topics familiar to everything concerning Elon. There's a way Vance has had me throughout this book and it's been captivating. What a book.
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- Andrew
- 01-15-17
Fascinating insight but a little repetitive
Well written book with a good relatively independent view of the history of Musks companies. Issue is repetitive nature of second half of the book- lots of the same principles come up time and again without really developing much further insight into the direction or the individual.
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- Arvin Seeva
- 12-26-16
An eye opening insight into the future.
A recommended biography of a person that sounds like a slave driver, but driven by passion for a better future and humanity.
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- Robert
- 12-13-16
Too much rambling
There are very good parts in this book about Elon Musk's career but there is a lot of filler by talking about how his companies do better than the competition by doing this or other design choices. Most of them are subjective opinions of the author or the people interviewed and are not measurable facts. Also all of his childhood living with his father is missing yet they keep alluding to it later on as a key point in his life. I feel I learned something from Elon as an entrepeneur in spite of the filler of this book though so not all was lost.
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- MJK
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Great insight into Musk's worldview
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- dragos sucea
- 09-10-16
Amazing
Very good book, highly recommended. It shows what it really takes to be successful if you translate it to whatever it is you would like to do
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- J. Tyler
- 01-17-17
Very good
Good narrator, great insight into Elon Musk and overall a very good book. Incredibly interesting!!!
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- Ahmed K
- 01-17-17
Extremely interesting and eye opening biography!
Thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook. Gets really deep into what makes Musk and his companies what they are now. More than just a way to learn more about Musk, it shows some of what's necessary to accomplish such successes.
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- Ed R
- 01-05-17
Inspirational story
Being an engineer myself I found learning about Musk's approach and achievements fascinating and inspiring. Would highly recommend for anyone interested in technology or business.
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- Anthony Sephton
- 12-22-16
Good
This story was an interesting listen. Musk is a real genius and the things he has achieved in business seems unreal.
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- 12-20-16
The power of personality
If you could sum up Elon Musk in three words, what would they be?
insightful, enjoyable, entertaining
What did you like best about this story?
Musk is just a balls out force of will.
What about Fred Sanders’s performance did you like?
He is a solid performer and made the autobiography experience enjoyable.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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- Michael
- 06-17-16
An underwhelming narrative of a really cool guy
This book is a bit of a let-down. You will learn a bit about Elon and his companies, but it will sap 13 hours of your life away and you won't be a better person for it.
You'd think there's so much you can learn from Elon Musk, but this author didn't really make much effort to gather any nuggets of insightful information, just snippets of hearsay from sources that have worked around Elon. Listening to the book feels kind of perverted because it's written in a way where the author digs up lots of dirt on him the way a trash magazine reports on the secret lives of celebrities.
The Author even gloats mildly about his tenacity in pestering Musk until he agreed to let him write the book.
Don't bother listening to this one.
46 of 50 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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- Mikhail
- 06-17-16
Fascinating story of an exceptional man
Things I liked:
1. Elon Musk's story is nothing like you have ever heard, even if you have studied the greatest men and women to grace this planet.
2. His big picture thinking and pursuit of ideals, never backing down until those ideals are achieved is grandiose.
3. The idea that a man like this is alive at this present moment gives me the extra motivation to work hard on my purpose and perhaps come across Elon one day.
4. Both the writing by Ashlee Vance and reading by Fred Sanders is fantastic. The story flows very well and I will undoubtedly be listening to this again.
Things I disliked:
1. I wish there was more.
19 of 21 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Rufus Keown
- 05-31-17
A really good read (listen)
Really enjoyed musks story of obsession and his drive to make the world a better place. Highly recommended for those who believe in a bright future.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Mark
- 05-21-16
Loved it
Great story well told, if slightly biased towards the end. He is an amazing and terrifying man.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- MKG
- 05-07-16
Best Biography Ever!
Simply the most impressive and exciting true story about a person's life that I've ever known.
7 of 8 people found this review helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 07-31-17
Changing force
Musk has ambitions that are so magnetic that it makes you want to change the world too.
He really is shaping the future, Ashlee Vance does an outstanding job presenting this.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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- benedict
- 05-20-16
such an amazing story.
Extreme management and perseverance to achieve what he does, inevitably burning people on the way. His arrogance and dictator style leadership means he achieves the impossible. Lucky he has an underlying altruistic vision of solutions for humananity which drives him.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Brian
- 07-11-16
Brilliant book
An amazing story of a truly remarkable and resilient man. Vance captures Musk's personality, both good and bad points, and digs deep into his success and failures.
Very well narrated.
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 01-16-19
Brilliance
Great story very inspiring. We need more Elon musks in the world. Looking forward to a rich future
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-28-18
Venus, Jupiter
Took some great nuggets from this book.
Enjoyed family background and education years.
I want to be onboard when we go to Mars.