In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Road to the Future, the author provides an independent and wide-ranging look at the life and achievements of Silicon Valley's most exciting entrepreneur. Vance spent more than 50 hours talking with Musk and interviewing nearly 300 people to tell his story the incredible story of the founding of the great companies PayPal, Tesla Motors, SpaceX and SolarCity and give a portrait of a man who changed the face of modern industry and thus made an army of enemies. Vance believes that Musk - one of the most amazing people in the history of world business - combines the best features of such legendary innovators and industrialists as Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes and Steve Jobs. Since Steve passed away in 2011 Jobs, only one titan of Silicon Valley managed to equal him in the power of his mysterious, almost mystical charm. His name is Elon Musk, CEO and founder of the rocket company SpaceX and the automaker Tesla Motors, as well as the president of SolarCity, the largest American company working in the field of renewable energy sources. Forbes magazine estimates that forty-three-year-old Musk is currently worth $13 billion. Let us remember that at the age of 17, Musk emigrated from South Africa to Canada with virtually no means of support, dreaming of achieving success in the United States. He could only count on the kindness of his Canadian relatives and odd jobs: he descaled boilers, worked in logging before finally becoming a student at Queen's University in Ontario.