Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vange Elon Musk, the business visionary and trendsetter behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his web companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the total exhibition and bend of the genius's life and work, from his riotous childhood in South Africa and flight to the Joined together States to his sensational specialized advancements and entrepreneurial interests. Vance employments Musk's story to investigate one of the squeezing questions of our age: can the country of creators and makers who drive the cutting edge world for a century still compete in an age of furious worldwide competition?