Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book came out in 2015. I heard it a full 4 years late in 2019. I waited both for price of the book to go down and waited to hear for feedback from others before embarking on reading the book myself.
Musk himself says that the biography is rife with errors.
There are many things that I learnt from the book. How it took Musk’s maniacal obsessions with the topic (electric cars and space exploration) to get things to a point where the companies (Tesla and SpaceX) turn profitable. Musk synthesized a lot of information, however others delivered on his vision. And that his vision changed as the situation changed.
Musk also goes back on the outsourcing model for both SpaceX and Tesla. His gigafactories are experiments in manufacturing under a single roof. It is worth following and for India, perhaps worth emulating?
I think you should read this book to learn about significant shifts in thinking that this book covers like the one on manufacturing that I captured here.
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