Ashlee Vance

Ashlee Vance
Ashlee Vance, at a signing for Elon Musk.
Born	1977 (age 39–40) South Africa
Education	Pomona College
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 was released on May 19, 2015.

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.

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.