Elon Musk: by Walter Isaacson

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And of course, the last sentence — “Musk did not enable it because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a major war” — is simple boot-licking. It debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending September 16, 2023. Now, I personally view Musk as a political nihilist, willing to say whatever he needs to say to get taxpayer money. I could find no support for it in any of the news articles that Isaacson listed as sources for this chapter. Could you get the rockets to orbit or the transition to electric vehicles without accepting all aspects of him, hinged and unhinged?

Isaacson later said in an interview that "Elon is very mercurial, but he never told me not to put anything in the book.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. 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. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance.

The book was written by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN, TIME and the Aspen Institute who had previously written best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci. The first thing I did was flip to the back, where the author lists his sources for the Ukraine thing. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation. While the stories are fascinating and guaranteed to spark a mountain of coverage, founders and entrepreneurs will also unearth valuable lessons.There is even a “genius” boxed set of his biographies that includes Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and — somewhat incongruously — Steve Jobs.