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Quest for a fantastic future6/21/2023 Overall, the author offers a picture of a brilliant, driven man: “He almost hypnotizes you,” says an associate. Along with views of youth and early geekdom (“It’s remarkable how many things you can get to explode,” Musk recalls), he relates suspenseful accounts of technical and financial crises, conducts tours of Musk’s factories (which are, pointedly, all in the U.S.), and brings his story up to early 2016. Noting the big payoffs as well as his propensity to follow up compelling promises with scandalously late delivery dates, Vance takes readers through his booms and busts with several enterprises-notably PayPal, Tesla Motors, SolarCity, and what has the potential to shape up to be his grandest triumph of all, SpaceX. In Vance’s view, Musk, afflicted with that vision thing, has always had his eyes on the prize-not of making bazillions but of providing humanity with the means to move beyond our confinement on a single, fragile planet. Vance slims down his 2015 portrait of an entrepreneur who has made and spent several eye-watering fortunes on the way to restarting our country’s space program and possibly revolutionizing the auto industry.
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