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Summary of Elon Musk 

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Elon Musk is a gifted individual with big dreams, and he has the money, talent, and drive to accomplish them. In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, the author, Ashlee Vance, did a fantastic job of introducing us to Musk and his dreams, his beginnings, where he is currently, and his future aspirations for humankind. You will learn how Musk left South Africa to escape a rough and troubled upbringing and uses his photographic memory and analytical abilities to follow his dreams in the United States. Author Ashlee Vance was born in South Africa and raised in the United States. He is a bestselling author, business columnist, and host of the — now redundant — Hello World TV show. “Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.” ~ Ashlee Vance

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A glimpse into Elon Musk’s World

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Eighteen months before writing this book, Ashlee Vance was distraught with Elon Musk’s refusal to cooperate. This rejection pushed Vance to work without his help, and he interviewed about two hundred people. Musk eventually asked the author to dinner later for a sort of negotiation — he wanted to add footnotes to serve as control over his life’s story. Musk had always struck Vance as a guy who became wealthy by preying on people’s self–hatred and fear. So, he insisted Musk shouldn't interfere with the book, and so it was.

Vance began his study at SpaceX headquarters in California, where Musk willingly tackled impossible things, making people respect and see him as a deity.
According to Elon Musk, there isn't much innovation anymore because most people are too focused on law, finance, and the Internet.
Over time, the surge in the get-rich-quick Internet fantasy has made Silicon Valley and San Francisco become a city of deep depression where only good times are well chronicled. We are now in an era where people prefer to make simple apps and ads to entertain consumers instead of creating physical products that make more job opportunities available.
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. ~ Ashlee Vance
Musk could have become a part of the malady if he hadn’t relocated from Silicon Valley to Los Angeles after making a fortune off his dot-com ventures. He doubled down on investing in the manufacture of physical products in both Silicon Valley and Los Angeles. But he faced many fierce enemies who were not happy, especially with his progress in space technology and direct sales of Tesla instead of franchised dealerships.

Musk has left behind a trail of people who either despised or loved him while he was busy building his companies over the last two decades. This summary will give you an overview of Elon Musk's life. We'll go back to his childhood, then talk about his humble beginnings and the giant strides he's making in the tech industry. Let's get started.
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Musk's childhood was troubled and hard

Young Elon Musk first became known when PC and Office Technology magazine published the source code of his video game. The remarkable thing about him was that he took fantasies about space more seriously than others.
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Elon Musk's unplanned trip to Canada from South Africa had some glitches but helped define his future

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The Musk’s brothers launched a start-up to help businesses get online

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A dot-com millionaire with a lot of confidence

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Musk moved to Los Angeles to be around aeronautics thinkers that he could learn from

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Tesla almost went bankrupt at the production stage

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Musk’s achievements transformed him into one of the most respected doers in Silicon Valley

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