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I am a business school professor based in South Africa and working, teaching and researching in the field of high growth entrepreneurship. My current podcast season is a weekly review of non-fiction books - I have set the challenge of 52 books in 52 weeks. I share the review by way of a short podcast (approx 15 mins) and an infographic. These are free resources - just subscribe at www.jonathanmarks.co.za/books to get these sent to your email inbox each Tuesday morning.

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Book Review: Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance

October 25, 2022 • Professor Jonathan Marks • Season 1 • Episode 41

The book captures the life and achievements of South African entrepreneur and innovator, Elon Musk, the brain behind series of successful enterprises such as PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX and Solarcity. The real-life inspiration of the Iron Man Series, Musk wants to be the saviour of the planet, send people into space and set up a colony on Mars.

Bullied in school and scolded tremendously by his father, Musk was actually a brilliant student and his life story is nothing less than a drama packed film. Ashlee Vance’s brilliant description of Musk’s character, simple language and neat choice of words indeed makes this book a great read. (Source: www.bookishelf.com)

NOTE: Apologies to my loyal listeners, my travel plans last week messed with my remote publishing abilities and this meant missing one of my weekly podcasts. I figure 1/52 is not bad - so here it is and expect a double episode soon.