Elon Musk

The #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Steve Jobs —this is the astonishingly intimate story of 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 for risk a craving for drama an epic s