Elon musk biography reviews

Elon Musk
by Walter Isaacson
688 pages
Simon & Schuster
Published: Sept 2023

“Elon Musk” is Walter Isaacson’s long-anticipated biography of the mercurial entrepreneur behind SpaceX, Tesla and, most recently, the website formerly known as Twitter.

Isaacson is an author, journalist and professor at Tulane University who has written popular biographies of Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci.

Despite my bias against biographies of people whose lives are still unfolding, Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk’s life proved irresistibly tempting.

I was lured by my experience with two of his previous books, the prospect of gaining insight into Musk’s entrepreneurial magic and by the possibility of understanding what makes this volatile visionary tick.

But for all the potential this biography seems to offer – the world’s richest man allowed Isaacson to shadow him f