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Ashlee Vance

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Ashlee Vance is an award winning feature writer for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. Vance is also the host of the "Hello World" TV show. Previously, he worked for The New York Times and The Register.

Vance was born in South Africa, grew up in Texas and attended Pomona College. He has spent more than a decade covering the technology industry from San Francisco and is a noted Silicon Valley historian. ...more

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	Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future 4.20 avg rating — 357,185 ratings — published 2015 — 160 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elon Musk Young Readers’ Edition 4.23 avg rating — 1,090 ratings — published 2017 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Geek Silicon Valley 4.10 avg rating — 364 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elon Musk, Shoe Dog, 10% Happier, You Are a Badass, Life Leverage, Eat That Frog 6 Books Collection Set by Ashlee Vance (Goodreads Author), Dan Harris (Goodreads Author), Brian Tracy (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 182 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elon Musk How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX / Shoe Dog A Memoir by the Creator of Nike / The Upstarts by Ashlee Vance (Goodreads Author), Phil Knight (Contributor), Brad Stone (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 128 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elon Musk How The Billionaire Ceo Of Spacex, Shoe Dog A Memoir By The Creator Of Nike, Steve Jobs The Exclusive Biography 3 Books Collection Set by Ashlee Vance (Goodreads Author), Phil Knight, Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rainbow Mansion 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Penguin Readers Level 3: Elon Musk 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hello World – A New Tech/Travel Show

Our TV show Hello World is out and about now. I’m basically getting to go after my dream job for a few months, traveling the world and interviewing scientists and inventors. Each episode focuses on a different country and tries to explain how that place’s culture has informed their vision of the future.

The show appears on Bloomberg TV, and on this Bloomberg Web site.

It lives here on YouTube as wel

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

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“Good ideas are always crazy until they’re not.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

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“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,”
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“If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.”
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