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This was extremely well-written. Easy to read and informative without being boring and dense. I didn't change my mind about him but was fascinated by all Musk is trying to do. He's crazy for sure, but he's crazy enough to change the world.
Interesting.
I picked this book up after President Trump appointed Elon Musk as a Senior Advisor.
As I read the book, I vacillated between admiration for Mr Musk’s drive and achievements and unease about the way in which he achieved some of them. Yes, in many ways Elon Musk is ‘a rule-breaking visionary’.
‘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 are the
demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?’
I watched Elon Musk in the Oval Office with President Trump and wondered how long that space can accommodate two outsized egos. On the other hand, it is difficult not to admire someone whose achievements include co-founding Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, the Boring Company (which, as a large-scale tunnelling operation, is probably the most conventional) and the AI company known as xAI. I am less certain about his impact on X (formerly Twitter): I stopped using the platform some time ago.
As Elon Musk said, when introducing himself to the audience of Saturday Night Live:
‘To anyone I’ve offended, I just want to say I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?’
Well, no, but I didn’t expect him to be so brutal in relation to running aspects of some of those enterprises either. He emails employees reminding them that ‘a maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle’ and clearly has no sense of a healthy work/life balance.
And then, just as my outrage kicks in, I step back to admire the creation of reusable rockets. And once the issue of recycling/reusing electric car batteries is solved, I may even be tempted to buy an electric car.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
I picked this book up after President Trump appointed Elon Musk as a Senior Advisor.
As I read the book, I vacillated between admiration for Mr Musk’s drive and achievements and unease about the way in which he achieved some of them. Yes, in many ways Elon Musk is ‘a rule-breaking visionary’.
‘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 are the
demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?’
I watched Elon Musk in the Oval Office with President Trump and wondered how long that space can accommodate two outsized egos. On the other hand, it is difficult not to admire someone whose achievements include co-founding Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, the Boring Company (which, as a large-scale tunnelling operation, is probably the most conventional) and the AI company known as xAI. I am less certain about his impact on X (formerly Twitter): I stopped using the platform some time ago.
As Elon Musk said, when introducing himself to the audience of Saturday Night Live:
‘To anyone I’ve offended, I just want to say I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?’
Well, no, but I didn’t expect him to be so brutal in relation to running aspects of some of those enterprises either. He emails employees reminding them that ‘a maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle’ and clearly has no sense of a healthy work/life balance.
And then, just as my outrage kicks in, I step back to admire the creation of reusable rockets. And once the issue of recycling/reusing electric car batteries is solved, I may even be tempted to buy an electric car.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
Couldn’t put this down, Walter Isaacson does such a good job of keeping every page interesting. Much better and more detailed than the Ashlee Vance biography, Walter had a lot more access to Elon and the people around him.
The book covers the whole Elon story, covering all his business ventures and even some I’d never heard of like the school he started for his children.
The last third of the book delves into a much more political side with Elon’s acquisition of Twitter (now X) compared to most of the book that covers a lot of the very interesting business and engineering decisions that went into making his companies successful.
You get the sense that Elon really cares about the goals he’s trying to accomplish and rarely lets things get in his way.
Would defintely recommend reading.
The book covers the whole Elon story, covering all his business ventures and even some I’d never heard of like the school he started for his children.
The last third of the book delves into a much more political side with Elon’s acquisition of Twitter (now X) compared to most of the book that covers a lot of the very interesting business and engineering decisions that went into making his companies successful.
You get the sense that Elon really cares about the goals he’s trying to accomplish and rarely lets things get in his way.
Would defintely recommend reading.
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