Elon Musk

By Walter Isaacson

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Money

Elon Musk is Walter Isaacson's 2023 biography of the entrepreneur behind Tesla, SpaceX and X. Isaacson shadowed Musk for two years and interviewed his family, friends, colleagues and critics. He traces Musk's difficult childhood in South Africa through PayPal, the founding of SpaceX and Tesla, and the purchase of Twitter, describing his appetite for risk, relentless work and "algorithm" for cutting cost and complexity, along with the impulsiveness that often makes him hard to work with.

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