Books like Elon Musk

Loved Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance? Here are 10 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

5 books

1Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Like Vance’s Musk, Jobs emerges as a visionary and difficult boss in a candid, propulsive biography about turning technological ambition into world-changing products.
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2The space barons
The space barons
Christian Davenport
Like Vance’s account of SpaceX, this vivid narrative follows Musk and rival billionaires risking fortunes on rockets, combining outsized personalities with high-stakes engineering.
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3Liftoff
Liftoff
Eric Berger
This gripping account of SpaceX’s early years deepens Vance’s rocket-building story, following desperate launches, engineering ingenuity, and a startup repeatedly nearing collapse.
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4The Everything Store
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
Like Vance’s biography, this sharply reported Amazon history pairs an uncompromising founder’s enormous ambitions with bruising workplace demands and relentless company-building.
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5The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb and the Killer Companies of t
The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World [Paperback] [Feb 02, 2017] Brad Stone
Brad Stone
Like Vance’s Musk, the founders of Uber and Airbnb pursue disruptive ambitions through regulatory battles and internal turmoil in a fast-moving, closely reported startup narrative.
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Steve Jobs