*A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller* 'A deeply reported and business-savvy chronicle of
Tesla's wild ride' --Walter Isaacson'A masterclass in narrative journalism' --Bradley
Hope'Exemplary' --The Times 'An exceptional work' --Washington Post Inside the outrageous
come-from-behind story of Elon Musk and Tesla's bid to build the world's greatest car and the
race to drive the future. Elon Musk is among the most controversial titans of Silicon Valley.
To some he's a genius and a visionary and to others he's a mercurial huckster. Billions of
dollars have been gained and lost on his tweets and his personal exploits are the stuff of
tabloids. But for all his outrageous talk of mind-uploading and space travel his most
audacious vision is the one closest to the ground: the electric car. When Tesla was founded in
the 2000s electric cars were novelties trotted out and thrown on the scrap heap by carmakers
for more than a century. But where most onlookers saw only failure a small band of Silicon
Valley engineers and entrepreneurs saw potential and they pitted themselves against the biggest
fiercest business rivals in the world setting out to make a car that was quicker sexier
smoother cleaner than the competition. Tesla would undergo a truly hellish fifteen years
beset by rivals pressured by investors hobbled by whistleblowers buoyed by its loyal
supporters. Musk himself would often prove Tesla's worst enemy--his antics repeatedly taking
the company he had funded himself to the brink of collapse. Was he an underdog an antihero a
conman or some combination of the three? Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter Tim
Higgins had a front-row seat for the drama: the pileups wrestling for control meltdowns and
the unlikeliest outcome of all success. A story of power recklessness struggle and triumph
Power Play is an exhilarating look at how a team of eccentrics and innovators beat the odds...
and changed the future.
