Biographer Walter Isaacson offers a revealing but not that surprising portrait of Elon Musk in his biography of the tech billionaire.
to use Starlink internet services to launch a surprise attack on Russian forces in Crimea. Isaacson’s book initially reported that Musk secretly told his engineers to turn off coverage within 100 kilometers of the Crimean coast as Ukraine was launching the attack. Isaacson has since posted on X the coverage hadn’t been activated over Crimea.
The book has also gained attention for previously undisclosed details about Musk’s family life. The news generated by Isaacson’s book underscores just how much Musk’s legacy remains in flux and the difficulty any biographer faces in assessing it. But the most fascinating parts are early on, as Isaacson delves into Musk’s upbringing, particularly his father. Musk’s father is portrayed in the book as a conspiracy-minded, verbally abusive Jekyll-and-Hyde figure. Musk’s fear that, as his mother puts it, “he might become his father,” is identified early on as a specter and possibly a driver of his success.
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