Ashlee Vance

Ashlee Vance is an American columnist who writes primarily on business. He is the author of the book Elon Musk. Vance is known primarily 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. Companies covered by Vance, such as IBM, HP, Intel, and Dell, also write 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 about the history of Silicon Valley. In 2015 he published a biography of Elon Musk. His writing also appears in such publications as The Economist, Chicago Tribune, CNN.com, Globe and Mail, International Herald Tribune, and CNET.