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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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Elon Musk is the most daring entrepreneur of our time. 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 interviewed 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. (Ecco Press)

This reading is additionally sponsored by WeHoX, the City’s exciting new innovation and technology program.

WeHo Reads is a collaborative project of the City of West Hollywood, the West Hollywood Library branch of the County of Los Angeles Public Library, the Friends of the West Hollywood Library, and Book Soup. For more information please visit http://www.weho.org/wehoreads. To rsvp for this event please call Book Soup at (310) 659-3110 or email at info@booksoup.com

WHEN: Wednesday, May 27, 7 pm
WHERE: West Hollywood City Council Chambers
625 N. San Vicente Blvd.
COST:    FREE



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