Elon Musk

Isaacson, Walter

| 2023

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From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, 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...

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2024-03-14

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Kunde fått ett bättre betyg om inte författaren hade lagt in sina egna politiska ståndpunkter. Boken ska väl handla om huvudpersonen och inte författarens tycke och smak, vilket lyste igenom både här och där. Boken kändes bitvis hånfull mot huvudpersonen Elon Musk