书名：Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future 硅谷钢铁侠：埃隆·马斯克的冒险人生

作者：Ashlee Vance
出版社名称：Avon
出版时间：2016
语种：英文
ISBN：9780062469670
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.9 x 17.1 cm
包装：简装
页数：448
★全球首部埃隆•马斯克授权著作！了解埃隆•马斯克全面、真实、经典读本。

★创业者必读。首次披露马斯克如何建立和运营PayPal、特斯拉、Space X、Solar City等公司的细节。
★创新者必读。关于科技、梦想、创业、工作、团队、人生。马斯克首次公开创新的秘密。
★故事迷必读。硅谷优秀科技作家阿什利•万斯历时将近4年，遍访300余人，写就记录马斯克传奇人生的经典著作。
★科幻迷必读。从科幻小说到火星探险，一部关于人类好奇心的伟大史诗。
★本书独家收录32张埃隆•马斯克成长、创业和婚姻生活的珍贵图片。
★《纽约时报》、《经济学人》、亚马逊年度商业图书
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs—a real-life Tony Stark—and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new “makers.”
Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius’s life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits.
Vance uses Musk’s story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk—one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business history—is a contemporary, visionary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. More than any other entrepreneur today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as the visionaries of the golden age of science-fiction fantasy.
Thorough and insightful, Elon Musk brings to life a technology industry that is rapidly and dramatically changing by examining the life of one of its most powerful and influential titans.
Review
“Mr. Vance tells the stories of both SpaceX and Tesla with intricacy and insight.... What does come through is a sense of legitimate wonder at what humans can accomplish when they aim high, and aim weird.”  — Dwight Garner,New York Times

“[T]his work will likely serve as the definitive account of a man whom so far we’ve seen mostly through caricature. By the final pages, too, any reader will sense the need to put comparisons to Steve Jobs aside. Give Musk credit. There is no one like him.”  —New York Times Book Review

“[A] spirited and riveting biography.”  —Wall Street Journal

“The SpaceX and Tesla founder certainly sees setbacks as an unavoidable part of innovation. But a brilliant new biography paints a picture of him as an obsessive, intolerant perfectionist.”  —Financial Times

“Fascinating and superbly researched…”  —The Guardian UK

他是风格独具的梦想家、创业家与工业家，也是眼光独到、一再开创新商业模式的企业家。从PayPal，到特斯拉、Space X、太阳城，他的创业历程中遭遇了无数棘手的事件，但是每一次突破都令全球惊艳。无论钟情于什么领域，他都可以展现出惊人的专注力。44岁的马斯克已经涉足颠覆互联网、金融、汽车、航空以及能源业。他近乎疯狂的对科技的专注，使他成为目前成功的连续创业者和科技创业家。

在将近4年的时间里，资深科技记者阿什利•万斯与马斯克超过40个小时的深度对话，记录了他从粗放贫瘠的南非到国际商业世界的不凡之旅。作者首次深入特斯拉、Space X等公司，亲密接触了马斯克的伙伴、员工、家人、朋友超过300人，真实地讲述了马斯克在创立、运营他那些足够改变世界的公司（包括PayPal、特斯拉、Space X和太阳城）时发生的惊人故事。同时也揭示了企业家和创业者如何专注于创业本身，同时管理多领域公司所需要的能力、方法和经验，以及如何在与许多竞争对手交手时不断推进企业创新的步伐。

作者用荡气回肠的写作，细腻地描绘出真实的马斯克，他独特的性格、永不知足的企图心，以及在遭遇事业、婚姻和情感困境时茁壮成长的能力。

本书收录关于埃隆•马斯克成长经历、创业过程和婚姻生活中32张珍贵的图片。

埃隆•马斯克的人生经历，和无数改变世界的伟大实业家的经历一样，是那种可以被千百次地写进小说、搬上银幕后，每一次重看都依然激动人心的，属于全人类的传奇故事。
There are few industrialists in history who could match Elon Musk’s relentless drive and ingenious vision. A modern alloy of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs, Musk is the man behind PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and SolarCity, each of which has sent shock waves throughout American business and industry. More than any other executive today, Musk has dedicated his energies and his own vast fortune to inventing a future that is as rich and far-reaching as a science fiction fantasy.
In this lively, investigative account, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance offers an unprecedented look into the remarkable life and times of Silicon Valley’s most audacious businessman. Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family, and his friends, the book traces his journey from his difficult upbringing in South Africa to his ascent to the pinnacle of the global business world. Vance spent more than fifty hours in conversation with Musk and inter- viewed close to three hundred people to tell the tumultuous stories of Musk’s world-changing companies and to paint a portrait of a complex man who has renewed American industry and sparked new levels of innovation—all while making plenty of enemies along the way.
In 1992, Elon Musk arrived in the United States as a ferociously driven immigrant bent on realizing his wildest dreams. Since then, Musk’s roller-coaster life has brought him grave disappointments alongside massive successes. After being forced out of PayPal, fending off a life-threatening case of malaria, and dealing with the death of his infant son, Musk abandoned Silicon Valley for Los Angeles. He spent the next few years baffling his friends by blowing his entire fortune on rocket ships and electric cars. Cut to 2012, however, and Musk had mounted one of the greatest resurrections in business history: Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity had enjoyed unparalleled success, and Musk’s net worth soared to more than $5 billion.
At a time when many American companies are more interested in chasing easy money than in taking bold risks on radical new technology, Musk stands out as the only businessman with enough dynamism and vision to tackle—and even revolutionize—three industries at once. Vance makes the case that Musk’s success heralds a return to the original ambition and invention that made America an economic and intellectual powerhouse. Elon Musk is a brilliant, penetrating examination of what Musk’s career means for a technology industry undergoing dramatic change and offers a taste of what could be an incredible century ahead.

Ashlee Vanceis one of the most prominent writers on technology today. After spending several years reporting on Silicon Valley and technology for theNew York Times, Vance went toBloombergBusinessweek, where he has written dozens of cover and feature stories for the magazine on topics ranging from cyber espionage to DNA sequencing and space exploration.

ELON’S WORLD马斯克的世界：跨领域创造

AFRICA出生地非洲：冒险无极限的基因
CANADA挺进加拿大：追寻太阳的人
ELON’S FIRST START-UP第一次创业：征服网络世界
PAYPAL MAFIA BOSS PayPal黑帮大佬：发动国际金融革命
MICE IN SPACE太空召唤：建立Space X创新大军
ALL ELECTRIC全电动车：超酷超快的特斯拉
PAIN, SUFFERING AND SURVIVAL痛苦、磨难与新生：现实版钢铁侠的商业版图
LIFTOFF腾飞：被颠覆的航空业
THE REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR电动车的复仇：毫不妥协换来好时机
THE UNIFIED FIELD THEORY OF ELON MUSK埃隆·马斯克的统一场理论：下一个10年
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APPENDIX 2附录2
APPENDIX 3附录3
ACKNOWLEDGMENT鸣谢
NOTES注释

DO YOU THINK I’M INSANE?
This question came from Elon Musk near the very end of a long dinner we shared at a high-end seafood restaurant in Silicon Valley. I’d gotten to the restaurant first and settled down with a gin and tonic, knowing Musk would—as ever—be late. After about fifteen minutes, Musk showed up wearing leather shoes, designer jeans, and a plaid dress shirt. Musk stands six foot one but ask anyone who knows him and they’ll confirm that he seems much bigger than that. He’s absurdly broad-shouldered, sturdy, and thick. You’d figure he would use this frame to his advantage and perform an alpha-male strut when entering a room. Instead, he tends to be almost sheepish. It’s head tilted slightly down while walking, a quick handshake hello after reaching the table, and then butt in seat. From there, Musk needs a few minutes before he warms up and looks at ease.
Musk asked me to dinner for a negotiation of sorts. Eighteen months earlier, I’d informed him of my plans to write a book about him, and he’d informed me of his plans not to cooperate. His rejection stung but thrust me into dogged reporter mode. If I had to do this book without him, so be it. Plenty of people had left Musk’s companies, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and would talk, and I already knew a lot of his friends. The interviews followed one after another, month after month, and two hundred or so people into the process, I heard from Musk once again. He called me at home and declared that things could go one of two ways: he could make my life very difficult or he could help with the project after all. He’d be willing to cooperate if he could read the book before it went to publication, and could add footnotes throughout it. He would not meddle with my text, but he wanted the chance to set the record straight in spots that he deemed factually inaccurate. I understood where this was coming from. Musk wanted a measure of control over his life’s story. He’s also wired like a scientist and suffers mental anguish at the sight of a factual error. A mistake on a printed page would gnaw at his soul—forever. While I could understand his perspective, I could not let him read the book, for professional, personal, and practical reasons. Musk has his version of the truth, and it’s not always the version of the truth that the rest of the world shares. He’s prone to verbose answers to even the simplest of questions as well, and the thought of thirty-page footnotes seemed all too real. Still, we agreed to have dinner, chat all this out, and see where it left us.