Review: Elon Musk bet everything he had on Tesla

"Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century," by Tim Higgins (Doubleday)

Space exploration, solar power, electric cars—the luck Elon Musk had made for his relation successful creating PayPal, the online outgo system, gave him the wealth to plunge into those arenas. "Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century" by Tim Higgins focuses connected Tesla, the electrical car conception that survived much near-death experiences than a Harrison Ford character.

In the author's telling, Musk emerges arsenic the quintessential American entrepreneur—driven, intelligent, focused and assured successful his ain abilities, imaginativeness and judgements.

Except that Musk is South African by commencement and upbringing, Canadian by migration choice, yet arriving successful the United States to be the University of Pennsylvania and then, connected to postgraduate studies astatine Stanford University.

But world beingness couldn't lucifer Musk's entrepreneurial fervor.

First, helium was an capitalist successful Tesla but each clip helium went to the slope for much wealth for the carmaker, helium accrued his control.

"Power Play" is simply a concern thriller for real. Multiple times successful the travel to motorboat the Tesla, the effort teeters connected the borderline of technological and fiscal cliffs. The Great Recession unsocial should person rolled implicit Tesla, but with the chill resoluteness of a combatant pilot, Musk steers the institution to success.

Higgins explains Musk this way: "Belief created the vision, the imaginativeness would make the market, the marketplace could make currency and currency would make cars." It didn't look to wounded Tesla that Musk could beryllium bitingly blunt, cranky and uncompromising.

Musk declined to cooperate with Higgins connected this book, which is unfortunate due to the fact that Musk's sanction present intelligibly belongs with Carnegie, Ford and Jobs successful the hallway of large American entrepreneurs.

If lone we knew what Musk was thinking, his thought process successful forming and guiding his companies, his imaginativeness for mounting and accomplishing goals and however helium embraced and redefined California's entrepreneurial culture.

Higgins offers america the next-best thing, a clear, profoundly reported and engaging relationship of however Musk launched a genuinely transformational car.

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