BIO

American reporter, writer, and filmmaker. He is known for his 2015 biography of Elon Musk- “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future”.

Vance wrote for The Register from March 2003 to August 2008. He moved to The New York Times in September 2008 and then to Bloomberg Businessweek in January 2011.

At the beginning of 2025, Vance left Bloomberg to found Core Memory, a new digital media company focused on science and technology. Core Memory has a YouTube show, a podcast, and a Substack newsletter, but also aims to produce production-quality documentaries, the first of which is on brain-computer interfaces and was in production as of January, 2025. He is also working on a book on OpenAI, for which he says he has already sold the movie rights.

Originally from South Africa, grew up in Texas and now lives in California with his wife and two children.