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他是发明家、企业家、创新者、梦想家，身上有托马斯·爱迪生、亨利·福特、史蒂夫·乔布斯等行业变革巨头的影子。从Zip2、X.com、PayPal到SpaceX、SolarCity、特斯拉，他的每一次跨领域创新都体现了非凡的智慧。他在不断颠覆金融业、能源业、汽车业、航天业、交通业……他所开创的事业，无论在深度还是广度上，都对世界的发展产生了重要的影响。他是美国商业历史上不寻常且引人注目的存在，他把自己的精力和巨额财富都奉献给了创造一个像科幻小说中的黄金时代一样丰富而深远的未来。
在将近4年的时间里，资深科技记者阿什利·万斯与马斯克深度对话超过40个小时，记录了马斯克从南非到国际商业世界的不凡之旅。作者深入特斯拉、SpaceX等公司，近距离接触了马斯克的创业伙伴、员工、家人、朋友共300余人，真实地讲述了马斯克创立、运营他那些足以改变世界的公司时发生的惊人故事，捕捉到现实版“钢铁侠”工作和生活的全貌，细腻又充满激情地描画了马斯克独特的性格、永不知足的企图心、惊人的专注力，以及遭遇困境时一次次触底反弹、逆势成长的能力。
他颠覆了世界前进的脚步，也改变着我们每个人的生活。但一开始，他只是一个喜爱仰望星空、钟情于冒险的少年……
阿什利·万斯：美国商业专栏作家，资深科技记者。在《彭博商业周刊》《纽约时报》《经济学人》积累了十几年的科技报道经验，既深入报道过科技巨头企业的领先技术，也发表过关于草根企业的不凡事迹，是一位知名的硅谷历史学家，曾特别报道埃隆·马斯克的事迹。代表作：《硅谷钢铁侠》。
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He is an inventor, an entrepreneur, an innovator, and a visionary, with echoes of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Steve Jobs, and other titans of industry change. From Zip2, X.com, and PayPal to SpaceX, SolarCity, and Tesla, each of his cross-domain innovations has demonstrated extraordinary wisdom. He's disrupting finance, energy, cars, space, transportation... His career, both in depth and breadth, has had an important impact on the development of the world. He was an unusual and compelling presence in the history of American business, devoting both his energy and his vast fortune to creating a future as rich and profound as the golden age of science fiction.
Over the course of nearly four years, veteran tech journalist ASHLEY Vance spent more than 40 hours in deep conversation with Musk, chronicling his extraordinary journey from South Africa to the world of international business. The author in-depth Tesla, SpaceX and other companies, close contact with Musk's entrepreneurial partners, employees, family, friends a total of more than 300 people, truly tells the amazing story of Musk's founding, operation of his companies that are enough to change the world, to capture the real version of "Iron Man" work and life. It is a nuanced and passionate depiction of Musk's unique personality, insatiable ambition, amazing focus, and ability to bounce back and grow against the tide when things get tough.
He turned the world upside down and changed the lives of all of us. But in the beginning, he was just a teenager who loved to look at the stars and enjoy adventure...
ASHLEY Vance is an American business columnist and senior technology journalist. In Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times, The Economist has accumulated more than ten years of experience in science and technology reporting, both in-depth reports on the leading technology of technology giants, but also published extraordinary stories about grassroots enterprises, is a well-known historian of Silicon Valley, has a special report on the deeds of Elon Musk. Representative film: Iron Man of Silicon Valley.
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