Elon Musk
by Walter Isaacson
View on GoodreadsHow far past Elon Musk can you see after two years at his side? Walter Isaacson shadowed him from August 2021, sat in on SpaceX and Tesla meetings, and traces his appetite for risk and his volatility back to a South African childhood of bullying and a fraught relationship with his father.
Core ideas
- Demons and invention: The book asks whether Musk's intensity and mood swings are bound up with his capacity to innovate.
- Everything at once: Tesla, SpaceX, the launch of xAI and the Twitter purchase that became X all fall inside the reporting, backed by more than a hundred interviews.
- Disputed passages: He later corrected a Starlink passage about a Ukrainian drone attack, and critics including Elizabeth Lopatto faulted his closeness to Musk.
Published2023
Pages688
ISBN9781982181284
ReadOct 2023
