Subjects Technology, business Name Ashlee Vance | Role Columnist | |
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Books Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Science & Technology Profiles | ||
Ashlee vance elon musk tesla spacex and the quest for a fantastic future talks at google
Ashlee Vance (born 1977) is an American business columnist. His most well known book, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future was released on May 19, 2015.
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- Ashlee vance elon musk tesla spacex and the quest for a fantastic future talks at google
- Elon Musk NY Times Best Seller by Ashlee Vance BOOK SUMMARY
- Personal life
- Work
- References
"Elon Musk" (NY Times Best Seller) by Ashlee Vance - BOOK SUMMARY
Personal life
Born in South Africa, Vance grew up in Houston, Texas and attended St. John's School. He studied in Pomona College. He now works in Mountain View, California.
Work
Vance is primarily known for writing for The Register from March 2003 to August 2008, but moved to the New York Times in September 2008 and then to Bloomberg Businessweek in January 2011. Vance covered companies such as IBM, HP, Intel, and Dell, and also writes about a wide range of technology topics, including robots, Segway scooters, and the R programming language.
In 2007 Vance wrote a book, called Geek Silicon Valley, on the history of the Silicon Valley. In 2015 he published a biography of Elon Musk His writing often also appears in such publications as The Economist, Chicago Tribune, CNN.com, the Globe and Mail, the International Herald Tribune, and CNET.
Vance hosted an audio podcast called Semi-Coherent Computing from 2007–2008, in which he discussed enterprise computing topics such as Datacenter cooling and blade servers, and interviewed guests including chip pioneer David Ditzel of Transmeta, Sun Microsystems, and Bell Labs.
In 2015, Vance started writing and hosting the "Hello World" video series for Bloomberg, focusing on the tech scene in various countries.