Both fans and critics have been waiting eagerly for this: Yesterday the latest biography about Tesla boss Elon Musk was published, with the simple title “Elon Musk”.
• New biography about Tesla boss Elon Musk appeared
• Musk rails against Microsoft founders Bill Gates
• Gates thinks Musk’s Mars plans are “pretty bizarre”
After biographies about Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, best-selling author Walter Isaacson observed and accompanied Tesla boss Elon Musk for two years – both to business meetings and private meetings – and spoke to family, friends, colleagues and also opponents .
Excerpts from the new biography have already been published in advance. Der Stern exclusively printed two chapters before the book was published – including a chapter about Musk’s relationship with Bill Gates.
Musk shoots against Bill Gates
In this chapter, the Tesla boss rails against the Microsoft founder because he bet on falling Tesla prices with short sales, reports t3n. “How can you claim that you care about fighting climate change and then actively diminish the overall investment in the company that is doing the most to address it?” asks Musk. In his opinion, that was hypocritical. “I’m now convinced that he’s completely insane (and an asshole to the core). I really wanted to like him (sigh),” said the Tesla boss about Bill Gates.
But Gates was also rather critical of Isaacson about Musk and his plans to bring people to Mars, reports t3n. “He’s exaggerating the Mars thing. I’ve had it explained to me how he imagines it, and I think it’s pretty bizarre,” Gates said. In his opinion, Musk has a “crazy idea about a possible nuclear war on Earth and people living on Mars and then coming back after we kill each other.”
Childhood marked by violence
The biography is also about Musk’s childhood in South Africa, which was marked by violence and humiliation. “I had to stand there for an hour while he yelled at me, called me an idiot and told me that I was simply worthless,” ZDF quoted Musk as saying in the new book about his father. “What emerged is a person who seeks drama and combines drama and storm with love,” says biographer Walter Isaacson. “He is willing to take risks and knows no fear. But he is also someone whose mood – like his father’s – can change. These demons rattle in his head, the demons of childhood, but they are also part of his motivation.”
Musk “King of the Playground” Through Twitter Purchase
Regarding Musk’s purchase of the short message service Twitter, which he has since renamed “X”, Isaacson explained, as ZDF reports, that he believes Musk made it out of an impulse that goes back to his childhood. “He learned to hit when he was hit on the playground. And Twitter is like the playground of the world,” Isaacson said. “You don’t beat people up there, but figuratively you do. And by buying it, he could be king of the playground.”
Overall, Isaacson describes the Tesla boss as an intellectual genius, but at the same time personally immature. Musk, who explains in his biography that he suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, seems to him “as if his Mars mission was an attempt to return home, and his desire to build humanoid robots was a search for kinship. You wouldn’t be completely horrified “If he ripped off his shirt and you could see that he doesn’t have a navel and doesn’t come from this planet.”
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