Ashlee Vance

One-line: Technology journalist; author of the 2015 Musk biography Elon Musk (Vance) — written with extensive cooperation from Musk and his colleagues — and host of the Core Memory podcast.

What we know

• Author of Elon Musk (Vance) (Ashlee Vance, 2015).
• The biography is built primarily from direct interviews — many of the cited passages are from colleagues describing Elon Musk in their own words.
• Hosts the Core Memory podcast; interviewed Chris Power of Hadrian for episode 80, drawing on his own aerospace-reporting background (e.g. recalling how early SpaceX contracted turbo pumps to a family-run Colorado supplier, Barber-Nichols).

Mentioned in

• Elon Musk (Vance) — as author
• Elon Musk — biographer of, written with cooperation from Musk and his colleagues
• He Came From Oz To Save American Manufacturing — EP 80 Chris Power — host/interviewer of the Core Memory episode with Chris Power.