Ashlee Vance

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Ashlee Vance
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Ashlee Vance, at a signing for Elon Musk.
Born 1977 (age 46–47)
South Africa
Subjects Technology, business
Notable work Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (2015)
Website
The Duckrabbit

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[1] was released on May 19, 2015.

Personal life

Born in South Africa, Vance grew up in Houston, Texas and attended St. John's School. He now works in Mountain View, California.

Print media

Vance is primarily known for writing for The Register from March 2003[2] to August 2008,[3] but moved to the New York Times in September 2008[4] and then to Bloomberg BusinessWeek in January 2011.[5] 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.[6]

In 2007 Vance wrote a book, called Geek Silicon Valley, on the history of the Silicon Valley.[7] In 2015 he published a biography of Elon Musk [8] 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.

Semi-Coherent Computing podcast

Vance hosts an audio podcast called Semi-Coherent Computing,[9][10] in which he discusses enterprise computing topics such as Datacenter cooling and blade servers, and interviews notable guests including chip pioneer David Ditzel of Transmeta, Sun Microsystems, and Bell Labs.[11]

References

  1. Ashlee Vance interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network
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  8. http://time.com/money/3860353/elon-musk-biography/?utm_source=followedapp.com
  9. Semi-Coherent Computing
  10. Semi-Coherent Computing - RSS Feed
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