Ashlee Vance is a best-selling author, best known for his book on inventor Elon Musk,
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. He has also written Geek Silicon Valley, about the places and people that made Silicon Valley the tech empire it now is.
Vance is the host of Hello World, a technology travel television show and is also a feature writer for Bloomberg Businessweek and a former reporter for The New York Times and The Register.
Vance was born in South Africa, grew up in Texas and now lives near San Francisco with his wife and two boys.