Sinopse
From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.
When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.
His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive.
At the beginning of 2022—after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth—Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. “I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,” he said.
It was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.
For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?
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041 ElonMusk Chapter38 TheFalconHearsTheFalconer
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042 ElonMusk Chapter39 TheTalulahRollerCoaster
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043 ElonMusk Chapter40 ArtificialIntelligence
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044 ElonMusk Chapter41 TheLaunchOfAutopilot
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045 ElonMusk Chapter42 Solar
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046 ElonMusk Chapter43 TheBoringCompany
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047 ElonMusk Chapter44 RockyRelationships
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048 ElonMusk Chapter45 DescentIntoTheDark
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049 ElonMusk Chapter46 FremontFactoryHell
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050 ElonMusk Chapter47 OpenLoopWarning
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051 ElonMusk Chapter48 Fallout
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052 ElonMusk Chapter49 Grimes
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053 ElonMusk Chapter50 Shanghai
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054 ElonMusk Chapter51 Cybertruck
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055 ElonMusk Chapter52 Starlink
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056 ElonMusk Chapter53 Starship
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057 ElonMusk Chapter54 AutonomyDay
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058 ElonMusk Chapter55 GigaTexas
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059 ElonMusk Chapter56 FamilyLife
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060 ElonMusk Chapter57 FullThrottle
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