Length12h 12m
About this audiobook
He read the encyclopedia because the books ran out. A slight, stubborn boy in Pretoria, bullied at school and at odds with a father he would spend a lifetime trying to escape, Elon Musk taught himself to program, sold his first game at twelve, and left South Africa with a backpack — because everything he wanted to build was on the other side of the ocean.
This fully expanded edition tells the whole arc: the dorm-room company sold for $307 million, the payments war that made him rich and exiled him in the same season, and the double bet that should have ended him — a rocket company and an electric car company, both weeks from death in 2008. What followed remade two industries: rockets that land backwards, a car company worth more than its rivals combined, satellites over a war zone, a $44 billion town square, and a tower that catches rockets out of the sky — while the Mars clock keeps ticking underneath it all.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length12 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 31, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
11. Chapter 1: Childhood in South Africa (1971–1988)
22. Chapter 2: Leaving Home for Opportunity (1988–1995)
33. Chapter 3: Silicon Valley Beginnings (1995–1999)
44. Chapter 4: The PayPal Revolution (1999–2002)
55. Chapter 5: Betting Everything on SpaceX (2002–2008)
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66. Chapter 6: Tesla and the Electric Car Gamble (2004–2012)
77. Chapter 7: Building the Musk Empire (2013–2017)
88. Chapter 8: Global Fame and Controversy (2018–2020)
99. Chapter 9: Space, Satellites, and Social Media (2021–2023)
1010. Chapter 10: The Future of Musk's Vision (2024–Present)
1111. Special Note
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