04445cam a2200685 4500 1156684816 TxAuBib 20240228120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781982181307 1982181303 B0BW9TRGKV Amazon d3ee48ea-37f9-4258-92c4-0e98a4dc99df OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9631785 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Isaacson, Walter. Elon Musk [Libby]. Simon & Schuster, 2023. Biography. steve jobs. Nonfiction. tesla. Father's Day. CEO. gift book. einstein. entrepreneur. Benjamin Franklin. Space Exploration. Innovation. South Africa. Twitter. billionaire. SpaceX. gift for dad. holiday gifts. code breaker. electric vehicles. gifts for him. holiday gift ideas. best business book. starlink. who is elon musk. business book of the year. elon musk net worth. elon musk news. leonardo da vince. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 82MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Business. Computer Technology. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller<br /> <br /> From the author of <i>Steve Jobs</i> and other bestselling biographies, 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. </b><br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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 sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive.<br /> <br /> At the beginning of 2022—after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth—Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. "I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life," he said.<br /> <br /> It was a wistful comment, not a New Year's resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world's ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.<br /> <br /> For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress? Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-02-28 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d3ee48ea-37f9-4258-92c4-0e98a4dc99df&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d3ee48ea-37f9-4258-92c4-0e98a4dc99df&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d3ee48ea-37f9-4258-92c4-0e98a4dc99df&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)