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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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A Captivating Journey Through the Mind of Disrupter

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2023

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"Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson is an extraordinary biographical exploration of one of the most fascinating and innovative figures of our time. As an admirer of Elon Musk and his ventures, I found this book to be an incredibly insightful and inspiring read that goes far beyond the typical biography. Here's why I believe it's a must-read for anyone interested in technology, entrepreneurship, and the future of humanity.

Thorough and In-Depth Research:
Walter Isaacson is renowned for his meticulous research and ability to provide a comprehensive account of his subjects. In "Elon Musk," he delves deep into Musk's life, from his childhood in South Africa to his founding of multiple groundbreaking companies like SpaceX and Tesla. The book leaves no stone unturned, offering a detailed and well-rounded portrait of this visionary entrepreneur.

Humanizing the Genius:
Isaacson's writing shines in its ability to humanize Musk, a man often seen as an enigmatic genius. The book delves into Musk's personal struggles, his successes, and his vulnerabilities, allowing readers to relate to him on a human level. This approach makes the story all the more engaging and relatable.

Awe-Inspiring Vision:
Musk's vision for the future is nothing short of awe-inspiring, and Isaacson does an exceptional job of conveying the magnitude of Musk's ambitions. From colonizing Mars to revolutionizing the automotive industry, Musk's visionary ideas are portrayed with enthusiasm and intellectual depth. Reading about his endeavors leaves you feeling invigorated and excited about the possibilities of our future.

Insights into the Creative Process:
"Elon Musk" offers valuable insights into the creative process of a brilliant mind. The book details Musk's relentless pursuit of innovation and his willingness to take risks that others deemed impossible. For aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators, the book provides a treasure trove of lessons on perseverance, problem-solving, and thinking beyond conventional boundaries.

Compelling Narrative Style:
Walter Isaacson's storytelling skills are evident throughout the book. His ability to craft a compelling narrative makes this biography read more like an adventure novel. The prose flows seamlessly, keeping the reader engaged and eager to turn the page.

Timely and Relevant:
In an era where technology and the future of our planet are at the forefront of global discussions, "Elon Musk" is incredibly timely and relevant. The book not only provides a window into Musk's life but also addresses pressing issues like sustainable energy, space exploration, and artificial intelligence.

In conclusion, "Elon Musk" by Walter Isaacson is an exceptional biography that offers a profound and intimate look at the life and mind of a modern visionary. It's a testament to the power of human determination, innovation, and audacious dreams. Whether you're an Elon Musk enthusiast or simply curious about the world-changing ideas of our time, this book is a captivating and enlightening journey that is not to be missed. I highly recommend it as a must-read for anyone seeking inspiration and insight into the future.

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If you want to grow an Elon Musk personality, skip standard life advice

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2023

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One of the conclusions I reached early in my life is that there is a huge disconnect between so called "conventional wisdom" in most important areas of life and what actually works in real life as shown for example in the difference between being an A-list celebrity and ranking high in the Forbes' list of wealthiest individuals.

Elon Musk's life, that Walter Isaacson documents in this book, is a prime example of this disconnect.

If you go by standard advice about what it takes to get admitted into one of America's top schools, there is no way that in 2023 a white kid without connections who grew up in a somehow privileged background -upper middle class in segregated South Africa- who scores 1400 (V670, Q730) in the SAT in his second try would be offered admission at any of America's top universities. And yet, this what Elon Musk looked like on paper circa 1992 when he applied as transfer student to the University of Pennsylvania. Luckily for the United States, admission committees at America's top schools 30 years ago were more rational than their contemporary counterparts. Elon Musk gained admission to the University of Pennsylvania and the rest, as they say, is history.

My path crossed with Elon Musk's at the Stanford seminar mentioned at the beginning of chapter 20 of the book. Back then I was a nervous young professional who had just submitted his application for graduate study at Stanford praying that I would get in. I recall two things distinctively from that talk: 1) Elon's telling that he had dropped out of Stanford to start his first company -I told myself that I would not be as silly if I got in-, 2) that he told the audience during the QA that he didn't think a particular degree or life experience prepared someone better than others to become a successful entrepreneur. Both ideas went against the standard advice I had heard from other speakers at the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar and, unimpressed, I didn't go to say hello to Elon Musk at the end of the talk. In the book I learn that it's in that seminar that Jeffrey Straubel approached Elon for an investment in Tesla.

I have gone back many times in my mind to that October 2003 talk since Elon Musk began to be recognized for his genius in Silicon Valley circles (late 2000s, early 2010s).

It is often said that a person's character is forged during a person's childhood and teen years. The biggest insight I am getting from Walter Isaacson's book is that Elon Musk's were the exact opposite of what experts in child and teen development say what those years should be like.

I get that Elon Musk is a controversial personality with some. At the same time, the Western civilization needs more people like him if it wants to continue to be the leading civilization in the world both on the technological front as well as on the population front -his ideas on low birthrates being the biggest threat to civilization are right on the money.

To summarize, I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

I want thank both Elon Musk as well as Walter Isaacson for partnering to make it a reality. It's very rare in human history to have a chance to get such a detailed insight into the mind of one of the contemporary history making personalities.

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Elaborates Elon's lack of empathy but only skims the sauce of his success

Reviewed in Japan on October 20, 2023

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Interesting but Insufficient!

Not bad. The book is long, but the story it tells holds your interest. Walter Isaacson characterizes the players well, draws quotes from lots of people around Elon Musk, such as Gwynne Shotwell, Grimes, as well as current and former deputies and engineers that reported to Elon, at Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, Twitter, Neuralink, and the Boring Company.

The book's saving grace is that it reads fast, tells a mostly coherent chronological story, and explains much of Musk's worldview. It cites examples of Musk's algorithm:

1. Question every requirement.
2. Delete any part or process you can.
3. Simplify and optimize.
4. Accelerate cycle time.
5. Automate.

Corollaries:
a. All technical managers must have hands-on experience.
b. Comradery is dangerous.
c. It's OK to be wrong. Just don't be confident and wrong.
d. Never ask your troops to do something you're not willing to do.
e. Whenever there are problems to solve, don't just meet with your manager. Do a skip level.
f. When hiring, look for people with the right attitude.
g. A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle.
h. The only rules are the ones dictated by the laws of physics. Everything else is a recommendation.

Likewise, Isaacson interviews his close family (like brother Kimbal and father Errol) extensively, drawing from them the lessons they learned from the games they play, like Polytopia:

1. Empathy is not an asset.
2. Play life like a game.
3. Do not fear losing.
4. Be proactive.
5. Optimize every turn.
6. Double down.
7. Pick your battles.
8. Unplug at times.

These kinds of lists characterize Elon well, and help us understand his mind better. Books that influenced him, such as the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, also illuminate his preferences. I love the explanations of his worldview played out in-scene, throughout his companies and personal interactions, like multiplayer games of Polytopia against Grimes or Kimbal.

The book's main problem is its heavy-handed layperson focus on Elon's emotional intelligence. Supporting cast, like Elon's children and cousins, are introduced as cardboard cutouts with "emotional alertness, and eagerness to please that were not part of Elon's repertoire." Every relative is characterized as resembling Elon, "except with empathy." Elon's tweets, comments, and actions are explained away as "Elon's Asperger's coming out in full." Walter Isaacson spends an inordinate number of quotations, scenes, situations, and personal introductions pointing out Elon's perceived lack of empathy or feelings, to the point that it feels like a mission, the book's central thesis. Justine, his first wife, "tried to explain to him the concept of true empathy: It involves feeling. You feel the other person." Everybody interviewed seems to say something about Elon's lack of empathy. It gets tiresome, fast.

Just present the actions and let the reader make the judgments! We don't need to be spoonfed psychoanalytic explanations for Elon's behavior, like we're his shrink trying to prescribe his meds. Presenting the worldview and then tying that to the actions is enough; we can read the scenes you've chosen and form our own opinions.

Too often, Isaacson does more than show the scene; he forces meaning on us, in explicit words, like why Gwynne Shotwell's personality and empathy juxtaposed with Elon's lack of it. Every person with any relationship with Elon chimes in on this topic in the book, that it feels like we are sitting in on a parent-teacher conference, hearing the thoughts and observations of that matriarchal 1st grade homeroom teacher, discussing children on the playground: who's a good kid, who plays well with others, who's a jerk, who's a bully, who needs to be toned down. Isaacson and the sources and quotations beat the empathy horse to death, breaking the 4th wall often to describe how he and others around Musk spoke about Musk behind his back. The narrative tries too hard to justify mean tweets and harsh statements, layoffs, and real-world actions that have dogged Musk in mass media newspapers and gossip magazines. The overall tone is that it is a negative trait: "Demon mode causes a lot of chaos, but it also gets shit done." No duh!

But what the book doesn't adequately explain, is why the people that remained despite this follow him religiously, how he led them (besides prescribing unreasonable deadlines), and why people packed those 11pm meeting rooms despite a lack of sleep, praise, or empathy. The flip side of this -- a driven sense of mission -- doesn't receive nearly the amount of coverage or depth that it should. But as leaders trying to derive the good and study Elon's results, we readers need to see more of this.

Max Levchin, one of Elon's PayPal cofounders that forced him out, is one of the few quotes that cast light on this topic:

"One of Elon's greatest skills is the ability to pass off his vision as a mandate from heaven."

"I think a huge part of the way he motivates people are these displays of sharpness, which people just don't expect from him, because they mistake him for a bullshitter or goofball."

The book needs more of this kind of insight. I wanted to know more of Musk's motivational strategies, not from Isaacson's perspective or Musk's own words, but from those he motivated. The engineers he cussed out. The people that moved to Kwaj on a moment's notice. The Bulent Altans, Yoel Roths, Gwynne Shotwells, Andy Krebs, Lucas Hughes, Brian Dows, and Shivon Zilis of his world. These characters come and on with hateful comments and firings. Isaacson puts too much focus on the negative, that he leaves too little room to study the positive, ... like how he gets people to achieve beyond their wildest dreams. Readers deserve to know why things worked, how people gained motivation, how milestones were hit, and companies built.

After buying X, Musk just picks up the phone, calls Tim Cook, and sets up a meeting. Dines with Bill Gates and criticizes his shorting of Tesla. How did he know Tim's number? Where does that level of accessibility originate? For such a lone wolf fearmonger without a scheduler or secretary, how does he manage such an expansive, text-or-call-anyone successful network?

If humanity is to emulate, further, or reproduce some of the most successful strategies that Elon has employed in building each of his companies, then students of such greatness -- Isaacson -- need to do a better job documenting the nuances of those interactions, specifically how the people around him stretch and grow beyond their boundaries to achieve the goals he sets out. Instead of spending so much book time harping the negatives, idiosyncracies, and abnormalities of what we readers already know and accept to be an idiosyncratic, abnormal man, Isaacson should focus on why the positives have driven the people around him. Too often, the narrative devolves into mass media-level shock and awe at the coldness or darkness of an action or interaction, when what readers are really wondering is, "Then how do his people do it?"

After all, the success of a company depends on its people, and how its leader motivates them. The narrative shouldn't dance around that subject, by wasting cycles on the leader's emotional mood swings or perceived lack of empathy. Too often, the perspective feels like that of a skeptic, or a short-seller like Gates, where all that matters is money and comfort. "If Musk's goal had been to create a profitable rocket company, he could have allowed himself to collect his winnings and relax after surviving 2018. His reusable workhorse Falcon 9 had become the world's most efficient and reliable rocket, and he had developed his own communications satellites that would eventually produce a gusher of revenue." (p. 326)

This kind of perspective misses the point entirely. We shouldn't be treated like consumer pigs spoonfed a litany of Musk's shortcomings as a heartwarming man. We're leaders seeking the secret sauce to a successful endeavor!

As quoted from Musk on page 609, "Every year there are more referees and fewer doers. That's why America could no longer build things like high-speed rail or rockets that go to the moon." Quotes like these should have clued Isaacson that the problem isn't a lack of empathy, it's a lack of getting things done (no excuses!) that disturbs Musk -- and frankly, other creators and doers as well. We're hampered by a society that tries to protect a 9-5 work-life balance devoid of confrontation, urgency, or challenge to the status quo. Rules and regulations hamper, not just in materials and safety, but in dealing with people's fragile emotions ("woke-mind virus"). This is why Musk has to push people harder than a normal taskmaster. This is why young talented people like Kiko Dontchev quit big corporations like Boeing: Because we can't achieve anything around unmotivated people in a culture that is content with plodding along slowly and obediently down the beaten path. I empathize and feel that is why so many talented engineers -- the Musketeers -- follow Elon so religiously, from one company and crazy idea to another. But this is only my suspicion, because Isaacson doesn't delve deeply enough into their reasons, or the efficacy of Musk's leadership style. Like Kiko and Musk, I understand that it isn't all about profit -- it's about making enough to show and justify the investment of people and allies that can help further the mission for humanity. Too bad Isaacson spends so much time on the valuation of Musk's companies to miss this point, and miss an opportunity to pinpoint more of the leadership strategies that work on highly motivated, highly talented people. We could have really benefited from a deeper dive!

We buy a book to learn more about how a giant leads and succeeds, not snicker at tabloid-level potshots at the central character's lack of empathy. Humanize the demon by sharing how he powers through such a lack of sleep/exercise/nutrition, and overcome the limits and feelings of his subordinates, not by parading and pontificating every unsympathetic act taken in a meeting room or public tweet. Humankind deserves to know how his magic works, not the things in spite of which it works.

Give us the insight into human motivation and show us the scenes where it plays out; then let us pass our own judgment.

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Inside look at revolutionary companies

Reviewed in Japan on September 16, 2023

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I only wish it was longer and more detailed. The book is quite well structured and fairly chronological which is a quite a feat given Elon's roles at 4-6 different companies where progress is rapid.

Having read Ashlee Vance's biography on Elon and Liftoff, I found the initial portion of the book somewhat lacking in detail but that was fine with me because I was mainly looking to learn more about events after those 2 books. That said, we do learn more about the adversity Elon faced in childhood and Walter makes it a recurring theme backed by many quotes from others how this adversity shaped him.

I'm glad Walter included a bunch of examples that were resolved during Tesla's production hell and at SpaceX. It was quite entertaining to read even if we can't understand the full complexity of the issue in a few sentences.

Throughout the rest of the book, finding out additional context about events I've observed as an outsider illuminating.

After production hell and achieving a production rate of 5k cars/week, I was surprised to read how stressed Elon was at times (lying on the floor before a Tesla earning call) because I didn't get that impression when listening to him on the actual earnings calls around that time. Similarly, I didn't sense much drama when watching Tesla AI day but after reading Kovac's trauma (which I felt took up more pages than it should - Andrej Karpathy was prominently missing from this book so I assumed Walter wasn't able to interview him), I went back and watched the short section he presented.

Reading this really goes to show how as outsiders, we only get a small glimpse of the truth and looking back at some of those events with the new context the books provide sure puts me in a contemplative mood.

One theme prevalent in the book is Elon's demon mode. Elon has appeared in many interviews and I haven't seen much of this side before so it's interesting to hear about the problems this can cause behind the scenes. And the public scenes as well - from his tweets on the diver, Paul Pelosi and banning journalists for linking the teenager doxxing his location, he's definitely shot himself in the foot and stabbed himself in the eye more times than I wish he did. But as Grimes puts it, demon mode certainly can push things to make sure s--t gets done and as Walter and Marks puts it, this character trait may be part of the package and can not simply be untangled from the woven cloth.

The Twitter drama was entertaining to watch when it was unfolding at the time but after reading this book, I've found myself reassessing my interpretation of some of the events that occurred. My impression of Yoel Roth for example was not great at the time. Calling your opposition Nazis is not conducive to preventing tribalism which sadly American politics has degraded to. Yet in the book he's quite reasoned in his role at Twitter and it retrospectively explains why Elon publicly endorsed him back then. So clearly, Twitter brings out the worst in us and is a poor way of measuring someone's integrity.

I do recall at the time that CP was an issue on Twitter and I wish we could have learned more about why Twitter, with such a large content moderation team failed to remove it from their platform for so many years until Elon took over the company. Was there some innocent mistake that Walter could have helped clear the air with?

The Ukraine situation was interesting to read but possibly badly written since it insinuated that Elon thwarted their attack on Crimea by proactively disabling service during a military operation. Walter later clarified on Twitter/X that Starlink was always disabled in the region.

Either way, it's nice to hear Elon deprioritize Twitter as he refocuses his efforts on Starship given the threat of general AI. I do hope he stops shooting himself in the foot now because I tend to agree with Kimbal, Twitter is mainly a pimple.

For engineers, the algorithm and the idiot index sounds like common sense but most of us find ourselves trapped in the layers of layers of complexity and requirements and we end up solving and optimizing within the narrow space we finds ourselves in. Why? Because working from first principles is difficult - questioning every requirement requires more brain cycles - we need to rethink through all the edge cases and their flow on effects. Sometimes we convince ourselves to avoid analysis paralysis by assuming the requirements make sense and focusing our efforts on adding building/adding complexity onto of it. It's no wonder that Elon repeats it like a mantra, even when surrounded by the world's top talent.

It is somewhat sobering to hear Elon lament on how they'll ever colonize Mars when dealing with BS regulations and poetically describing it as how civilizations fall when they become complacent after winning for so long. But it also helps explain why he pushes for surges at his companies. If I was asked to work my ass off at 11pm on a Friday night, I'd be furious, but then again I'm aware that I'm not the hardcore type of engineer that helps revolutionize industries. I deeply respect those that do and cheer your efforts on.

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Wolfgang Kronberg

Sehr gehaltvolle Informationen nicht nur über die Person, sondern auch über die Projekte

Reviewed in Germany on October 20, 2023

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Walter Isaacson hat für dieses Buch zwei Jahre lang Elon Musk an etliche Orte begleitet, war bei wichtigen und vertraulichen Meetings dabei, und hat Interviews mit etlichen Wegbegleitern Musks geführt. Und er hat aufgeschrieben, was er dabei gelernt hat.

Das Buch ist in eine große Anzahl kurzer Kapitel gegliedert, die jeweils ein Ereignis oder eine Begebenheit behandeln. In etwa der ersten Hälfte geht es dabei um weiter zurückliegende Events, über die sich Isaacson im Laufe seiner Arbeit bei Musk selbst oder Familie, Freunde, Kollegen informieren konnte. Dem Rest merkt man dann an, dass Isaacson selbst dabei war. Und ich habe ein wenig das Gefühl, dass der Autor zum Schluss hin immer kritischer wurde - zu Recht aufgrund der Geschehnisse, wie ich meine.

Elon Musk hat das Buch vor der Veröffentlichung nicht gelesen und auch nicht darum gebeten (steht ziemlich weit hinten). Ich finde das bemerkenswert, und es sagt einiges über Herrn Musk aus. Es stehen ja durchaus einige nicht sehr schmeichelhafte Dinge drin, und das wusste er auch. Die meisten Menschen hätten das wohl vorher checken wollen. Er nicht.

Man lernt hier so viel über Elon Musk, seine Denkweise, seine Ziele und seine Art, Entscheidungen zu treffen, wie man als Außenstehender wohl überhaupt lernen kann. Man erfährt außerdem genug über seine vielen Firmen, um einschätzen zu können, was dort getan wird und warum. Denn Musks Firmen dienen alle einem Zweck - und dieser Zweck ist nicht, Geld zu verdienen. Das Verdienen von Geld ist eher eine Nebeneigenschaft, die Firmen halt haben müssen, um funktionieren zu können. Musk achtet darauf, dass die Finanzen stimmen, doch der Firmenzweck steht im Vordergrund.

Im Falle von Tesla ist dieser Zweck etwa, die Transformation hin zu erneuerbaren Energien zu beschleunigen. Das ist keinesfalls nur eine Autofirma. Im Falle von SpaceX ist der Zweck, die Menschheit zu einer multiplanetaren Spezies zu machen. Ja, das ist jeweils sein voller Ernst. Darum geht es.

Dieses Buch ist eine absolute Pflichtlektüre für jeden, der sich eine Meinung zu Musk gebildet hat (oder das noch tun will) und mitreden möchte. Egal ob man ihn bewundert, ihn hasst, oder ihm ambivalent gegenüber steht. Dasselbe gilt für seine Firmen, insbesondere Tesla und SpaceX. Mehr zuverlässige Infos als hier wird man sonst nirgends bekommen.

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Great Book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2023

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This is a big book, 600 pages plus, but that barely covers a man’s life, never mind a complex life like Elon's.
It’s a great read, informative and well laid out. Drawing you into his choices, the whys of them and so forth. The details of many of his choices during SpaceX and Tesla’s crisis times are especially illuminating.
The book delves deep and shows warts and all. We see the effects Asperger and Bipolar cause in his working day and approach to business. We see how he pushes everyone as hard as he pushes himself.
It is not always comfortable, but yet when he took over Twitter, he cut 2,500 programmers down to a few hundred based on the fact some of them only did 100 lines in an entire week of coding! Never mind the gutting of the woke-based staff agenda he despised so much.
As for Tesla and SpaceX, his spending weeks gutting their processes and turning a slow, unwieldy production line into a fast-focused machine producing in the case of Tesla 5000 cars per week against the 1800 it had before he began the cleanup.
Love him or hate him, he has and does change the way the world works through his perception of it and through seeing the world as a piece of engineering.
Final interesting point that illustrates why and how we need more thinkers like this. He wanted to move Twitter's servers from one of their holding bases and was told 6 months of work and informed of the relevant people he needed and companies they suggested. Also, with an ongoing price tag of 100 million. He did it in 2 weeks, over the Christmas period, using his own staff and trucks hired from local companies.
Not so much thinking outside the box as not even being on the same planet as the box!

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EGG

Inspiring

Reviewed in Spain on October 30, 2023

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Let's start by saying I'm an Elon Musk fan so this is a biased opinion.
This book starts with childhood and the first half is similar to the book written by Ashlee Vance although in way more detail and with more people involved. The second half is amazing, especially the chapter about autopilot and starship at the end.
To be fair no one is perfect and we can see it in the Twitter saga chapters but overall the book is well written and if you are a fan or you are open-minded will find in this book the inspiration and wow factor that are not easily attainable.
I hope you buy it and keep the conversation going

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