Elon Musk’s new biography, released in the United States on Tuesday, portrays a complex man, obsessed with the conquest of space, with aggressive management methods and devoid of empathy.
Walter Isaacson, known for a series of successful biographies, including that of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (2011), had unprecedented access to the eccentric entrepreneur, whom he interviewed several times.
According to excerpts from the book, quoted by several North American media outlets, which had access to the work, the author describes an Elon Musk consumed by the desire to turn the human species into a “multiplanetary” population, thanks to his aerial and aerospace company SpaceX.
For the billionaire, the “woke” virus, referring to the activism that aims to promote and defend all minorities, carries the risk of making the colonization of other planets unfeasible, first of all Mars, because it is “anti- religious’. people in general” and must be stopped.
According to Walter Isaacson, the richest man in the world is a ‘big child’, who remains marked by a childhood in which he was regularly the victim of ‘bullying’ at school.
Elon Musk spoke openly to his biographer about Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism he was diagnosed with, which, he says, explains why he is “terrible at deciphering social cues” in his relationships with others.
The South African-born businessman has been described as “drawn to storms and drama”, subject to “unpredictable emotional swings”, which manifest in the way he runs the companies he leads.
The book raises several examples of Elon Musk’s anger when his employees don’t meet his expectations, or the way he is willing to humiliate them when they stand up to him.
For the artist Grimes, the businessman’s former partner, he goes into “demon mode” when he expresses his irritation, a state that “causes a lot of chaos”, she confided to the biographer.
Walter Isaacson reveals about the Canadian singer that he had a third child with Elon Musk via a surrogate mother, while the ex-couple had only talked about two babies until now.
This brings the number of Elon Musk’s known living children to ten, including two with an executive director of one of his companies, Neuralink, to whom he donated sperm.
“He wants people to have children,” Shivon Zilis, mother of the twins born in 2021, told the author of the biography.
Source: DN
