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☆ Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Paul Glader | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —“You’ll never be successful,” Errol Musk in 1989 told his 17-year-old son Elon, who was then preparing to fly from South Africa to Canada to find relatives and a college education. That’s one of the scenes Walter Isaacson paints in his 670-page biography of Elon Musk, who is now the richest person who ever lived. In a 2022 email sent to Elon Musk on Father’s Day, Errol Musk said he was freezing and lacking electricity, asking his son for money. Isaacson’s book revealed Musk had a third child (Techno Mechanicus) with the musician Grimes in 2022, and Musk confirmed the revelation Sunday. “Stop falling for weird s—.”Are robocars, an AI company and a robot called Optimus on tap?

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☆ Elon Musk has been a sleep-deprived, workaholic since starting his first business. Those habits set the stage for a bitter RTO battle among CEOs.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk has been a workaholic since at least 1995. Musk's obsession with work has set a precedent for CEOs who are aggressively enforcing RTO policies. AdvertisementAdvertisementJim Ambras, an early employee at Zip2, recalled that Elon Musk had no pillow or sleeping bag. This kind of approach to work has stayed with Elon Musk throughout his career. AdvertisementAdvertisementMany of Elon Musk's and other CEOs' employees excel in their roles but have little interest in pursuing a workaholic, "hardcore" lifestyle.

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☆ Elon Musk's biographer says Musk has 'multiple' personalities — he can be 'brutal,' and also 'frightening and inspiring all at once'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk's biographer says Musk "is a person with multiple moods and modes and personalities." Walter Isaacson told The Atlantic that Musk's many personalities are "quite vivid and different." "There are multiple Elon Musk personalities, and there are times when he's just brutal, times when he's got an epic sense of himself—which is both frightening and inspiring all at once—and times when he's an incredibly focused engineer," Isaacson told The Atlantic in an interview published on Monday. "One of the exciting challenges is navigating the many Elon Musks, which, unlike anybody else I've written about, are quite vivid and different," the author continued. Advertisement Advertisement Watch: What's going on with Elon Musk"This is a person with multiple moods and modes and personalities, ranging from engineering mode to demon mode," Isaacson told The Atlantic.

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☆ Walter Isaacson's new Elon Musk biography is already taking off in China
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A Citic Press book stand advertises for the release of the Chinese version of Walter Isaacson's new Elon Musk biography. BEIJING — Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk hit the Chinese market Tuesday, several hours ahead of the U.S. release due to a time difference that puts Beijing 12 hours ahead of New York. A day earlier, publisher Citic Press Group raised the book's selling price to 79 Chinese yuan ($10.84), up from 59 yuan previously, according to Chris Sun, lead translator of Isaacson's book into Chinese. Citing conversations with the publisher, Sun said a rare, urgent additional printing was done during the pre-sale period and that the work was Citic Press' "highest-level confidential project" of the year. The Shenzhen-listed company reported revenue from operations of 872.65 million yuan for the first half of the year, up 2.9% from a year ago.

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☆ Elon Musk learned hypnosis as a child and managed to convince his sister that she was a dog and to eat raw bacon, a new book says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk learned magic tricks and hypnosis when he was a kid, according to a new biography. He even convinced his sister, Tosca, that she was a dog and got her to eat raw bacon. Musk didn't have a social life when he was younger and frequently trailed Tosca to parties because he didn't want to be lonely, the book says. That's according to a new biography, "Elon Musk," by the author Walter Isaacson, which hit bookshelves on Thursday. Musk "also learned magic tricks and how to hypnotize people, once convincing Tosca," his little sister, "that she was a dog and getting her to eat raw bacon," it continued.

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☆ Elon Musk poached a Google scientist and justified it by telling Larry Page he shouldn't have been 'so cavalier about AI safety'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A newly released biography on Musk details how he justified poaching a Google scientist to then-CEO Larry Page. "And I was like, 'Larry, if you just hadn't been so cavalier about AI safety then it wouldn't really be necessary to have some countervailing force," Musk said. Sutskever joined Google's AI unit, Google Brain, in 2013 along with Geoffrey Hinton — also known as the "godfather of AI." "And I was like, 'Larry, if you just hadn't been so cavalier about AI safety then it wouldn't really be necessary to have some countervailing force," Musk added. When Musk started his own AI startup — xAI — in July, he again poached AI experts from Google and OpenAI.

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☆ Elon Musk whispered to his first wife, Justine, that he was 'the alpha in this relationship' during their first dance
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

During Elon Musk's first dance with Justine Musk, he told her he was the "alpha" in the relationship. Justine Musk was his first wife and the mother of five of Elon Musk's surviving children. "I am the alpha in this relationship," Elon Musk whispered to author Justine Musk, his first wife, as they danced following their ceremony on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, Walter Isaacson wrote in "Elon Musk," his new biography of the tech mogul. Elon Musk met Justine Musk when he was a sophomore and she a freshman at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. AdvertisementAdvertisementShe told Isaacson that Elon Musk told her to dye her hair blonder and that she felt like she was being turned into a "trophy wife."

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☆ Tesla tops list of most shorted stocks for third month in August - Hazeltree
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Nell Mackenzie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Tesla stock rallied over 5% on Monday after a Morgan Stanley (MS.N) note suggested the automaker's Dojo supercomputer could bolster Tesla's market value. Hazeltree, which tracks 12,000 equities globally, said the second and third most shorted stocks last month were Charter Communications (CHTR.O) and Apple (AAPL.O) respectively. Those included investors with funds taking long and short positions in stocks: Diamond Hill, Leuthold Funds and Forum Funds. "Taking out a short position against Tesla, as Gates did, results in the highest return only if a company goes bankrupt!" Hedge funds were net short consumer discretionary stocks, which would include Tesla, for the year ending Sept. 8, according to the Goldman note.

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☆ 8 CEO lessons Elon Musk tried to teach his bother Kimbal, based on a mobile game Musk was obsessed with
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Here are the eight CEO lessons that Elon handed down to his brother through the game, per Isaacson's conversations with Elon, Kimbal, Grimes, and Zilis. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion," Elon told Isaacson. If we let a few of them slide, we will never get to Mars," Elon told Isaacson. Elon told Isaacson, "I had to take Polytopia off my phone because it was taking up too many brain cycles. Elon Musk and Kimbal Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Insider Today: Big Tech goes on trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Speaking of Big Tech, it's a big day for the industry as the DOJ's antitrust trial against Google starts today. It's also a strategy the Department of Justice argues is "anticompetitive and exclusionary" in a landmark trial for Big Tech kicking off today. The trial is the biggest to hit the tech industry since the government sued Microsoft in the late 1990s. AdvertisementAdvertisementMore broadly, the case is a bellwether for how the government could argue future cases against Big Tech companies in the modern era. Each case is unique, but their focus on monopolistic behavior means the Google trial could set precedents followed by both sides.

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☆ Elon Musk's biographer says the billionaire buying Twitter was 'insane' because he 'doesn't have empathy'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's biographer told the FT buying Twitter, now X, was "insane." Walter Isaacson made the comments in an interview about his book "Elon Musk," which was released on Tuesday. "Everything was going so well that [Musk] became uncomfortable," Isaacson told the FT. "He doesn't like things when they are going well. "It's not like I need to be richer," Musk told him. The musician Grimes, with whom Musk has three children, told Isaacson that the billionaire's lack of empathy could be related to his Asperger's diagnosis.

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☆ Elon Musk passed out after drinking vodka in a meeting with Russians to buy rockets because he was hungover from partying in Paris, biography says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Pete Syme | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk passed out in a meeting that involved shots of vodka, per his upcoming biography. He was negotiating buying rockets in Moscow, and had partied in Paris the night before. The SpaceX CEO told Isaacson that, before founding the company in 2002, he instead wanted to launch a mission that would inspire public interest in space exploration. "I calculated the weight of the food and the weight of the vodka, and they were roughly equal," Musk told Isaacson. Cantrell told Isaacson that the Russians then taunted the SpaceX founder, saying: "Oh, little boy, you don't have the money?"

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☆ After Elon Musk spoke to Neuralink director Shivon Zilis about his population decline fears, she decided to have children. He suggested being her sperm donor.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis decided to have children together after he spoke to her about population decline. When Zilis said she was ready to have children, Musk suggested he be the sperm donor, per a new book. AdvertisementAdvertisement"He really wants smart people to have kids, so he encouraged me to," Zilis told Isaacson. When Zilis decided she was ready to have children, Musk suggested that he could be the sperm donor. "When he comes in, they light up and have eyes only for him, which lights him up as well," Zilis told Isaacson.

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☆ Elon Musk sent a picture of Grimes having a C-section to her father and brothers, leaving her 'horrified,' and him 'clueless' about why she was upset
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk sent a picture of Grimes having a C-section to their friends and family, a new book details. "He was just clueless about why I'd be upset," Grimes told Walter Isaacson, Musk's biographer. "It was Elon's Asperger's coming out in full," Grimes told Isaacson. Musk has repeatedly said that he has Asperger's, a form of autism-spectrum disorder, although his mother Maye Musk told Isaacson that he was never diagnosed as a child. AdvertisementAdvertisementGrimes gave birth to their first child X Æ A-Xii Musk, referred to by his parents as X, in May 2020.

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☆ Elon Musk spent Christmas Eve moving servers at one of X's data centers in Sacramento, in an example of his 'recklessness' and 'impatience,' biographer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk spent Christmas Eve moving X's data servers from one facility to another. The facility was a major cost for X, according to Musk's new biography penned by Walter Isaacson. The next day, Christmas Eve, Musk called in reinforcements including friends from Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company to procure equipment and tools needed to move the servers. Musk later admitted the "whole Sacramento shutdown was a mistake," after the lack of servers caused a whole host of issues. Isaacson wrote that Musk's Sacramento incident was "an example of his recklessness, his impatience with pushback, and the way he intimidated people."

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☆ Playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' brought out the 'incredibly patient' and 'beautiful' parts of Elon Musk's personality, his cousin says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk's cousin said Musk was a different person when playing "Dungeons and Dragons." Peter Rive said Musk had a "whole bunch of different demeanors and moods" even as a kid. But Musk was "incredibly patient" when playing the game, Rive said in Musk's biography. "Even as a kid, Elon had a whole bunch of different demeanors and moods," Rive said in the Walter Isaacson-penned biography. But Rive said Musk was a much different person when he was playing "Dungeons and Dragons."

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☆ Elon Musk 'associates love with being mean or abusive,' Grimes told biographer Walter Isaacson
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Grace Kay | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Elon Musk "associates love with being mean or abusive" Grimes told Musk's new biographer. AdvertisementAdvertisement"When you're from a dysfunctional background or have a brain wired like his," Wilson told Isaacson, "intensity takes the place of intimacy." AdvertisementAdvertisementIn 2017, Musk's mother, Maye Musk, told Rolling Stone that Errol Musk was "a terrible human being," and in 2019, she told Harper's Bazaar that their marriage was abusive. AdvertisementAdvertisement"He has numerous minds and many fairly distinct personalities," she told Isaacson, according to the book. "When we hang out, I make sure I'm with the right Elon," she told Isaacson.

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☆ Elizabeth Warren calls for an investigation into Musk and Starlink in Ukraine after biography claim
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Amanda Macias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for a probe Tuesday following a claim that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk curbed a Ukrainian military operation aimed at Russia's Black Sea fleet last year by limiting access to SpaceX's Starlink satellite network, a report said. CNBC has reached out to Warren's office to confirm the statement. The call for an investigation stems from an excerpt released last week from biographer Walter Isaacson's book titled "Elon Musk," in which the author details how a Ukrainian drone sneak attack on the Russian fleet was disrupted by a disconnect from Starlink. In an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box," Isaacson further elaborated on the excerpt from the biography that triggered alarm bells in Washington, among NATO allies and the Ukrainian capital. Isaacson said developing a military-grade version of Starlink will help resolve concerns expressed by Tesla and Musk regarding the satellite networks' use in combat.

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☆ Walter Isaacson's book 'Elon Musk' hits shelves, details explosive encounter with Bill Gates
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Walter Isaacson's book "Elon Musk" hit shelves Tuesday, and the author told CNBC's "Squawk Box" about a heated exchange he documented between the Tesla CEO and Bill Gates. Isaacson said his book chronicles the good, bad and ugly behind Musk, and that one of the things that upsets the billionaire is when people short Tesla stock to try and make a profit. Early last year, Musk met with Gates, co-founder of Microsoft , who had previously shorted the automaker's stock and bet that it would decrease in value. "The demons and dancing in Elon Musk's head include people who short Tesla," Isaacson said Tuesday.

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☆ Elon Musk followed his little sister around as a teen because he didn't want to be lonely, reading books when she went to clubs or parties, biography says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk trailed his little sister to clubs and parties when they were teenagers, according to a new book. Musk's family was living in Toronto at the time and he had no social life, the biography said. Musk insisted on joining his sister when she went out because he didn't want to be lonely, according to the book. At the time, Musk's family was living in Toronto, and "he spent most of his time reading or working on the computer," Walter Isaacson writes in the biography, "Elon Musk." "Elon Musk" hit bookshelves on Tuesday.

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☆ Grimes was 'outraged' after learning that Elon Musk fathered twins with Shivon Zilis at the same time as the public, new biography reveals
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Grimes was reportedly upset to learn about Elon Musk's twins with Shivon Zilis at the same time as the public. The twins were born just weeks before he had his second child with Grimes. Musk's twins with Zilis were born weeks before Musk and Grimes welcomed their second child via surrogate in December of 2021. The news of Musk's twins was first reported by Insider in July of 2022. Musk and Grimes also share a son, X Æ A-Xii Musk , or X , and a daughter, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk, who goes by Y .

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☆ The origin of Elon Musk’s feud with Bill Gates, according to Musk’s new biography
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Paul Glader | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The meeting went sideways, according to Walter Isaacson’s new biography, “Elon Musk,” which hits stores Tuesday. “Hey, I’d love to come see you and talk about philanthropy and climate,” Gates texted Musk in 2022, Isaacson wrote. “Most philanthropy was “bulls—,” Musk told Gates, estimating only 20 cents of each dollar made a difference that way. Gates could “do more good for climate change by investing in Tesla,” Musk said, according to Isaacson. When Gates sent documentation about his philanthropic work and followed up with a text to Musk, Musk asked if he was still holding a short bet against Tesla.

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☆ Grimes is squashing her beef with Shivon Zilis, saying communication about Elon Musk's secret twins 'wasn't handled super well' in the past
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Grimes and Shivon Zilis — both of whom have kids with Elon Musk— have buried the hatchet. Grimes wrote. "Communication about the twins wasn't handled super well in the past, but I now totally understand what happened and totally forgive the situation," Grimes wrote on X on September 10. AdvertisementAdvertisement"So glad we had such a wonderful talk, was insanely overdue," Zilis wrote, calling Grimes a "total badass." He shares three children with Grimes — X Æ A-Xii, or X; Exa Dark Sideræl, known as Y, and Tau.

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☆ An explosive Elon Musk biography is just hitting shelves. But the book’s acclaimed author is already walking back a major claim
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Walter Isaacson’s highly anticipated biography on Elon Musk is hitting shelves on Tuesday — and he is already walking back a major claim. Over the weekend, The Post updated the excerpt it had published and offered a correction to its readers. “After publication of this adaptation, the author learned that his book mischaracterized the attempted attack by Ukrainian drones on the Russian fleet in Crimea,” the correction stated. This version reflects that change.”CNN also updated its story on Monday, noting Isaacson had backpedaled his initial claims. “After this story published, Walter Isaacson clarified his explanation regarding Elon Musk restricting Ukrainian military access to Starlink, a critical satellite internet service,” an editor’s note said.

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☆ Bill Gates thought Elon Musk became 'super mean' after finding out Gates shorted Tesla stock
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Musk shot down Gates' attempts to talk about giving to charity after Gates shorted Tesla stock. "He was super mean to me, but he's super mean to so many people, so you can't take it too personally," Gates said about Musk. Speaking about this incident to Isaacson, Gates told the writer he even apologized to Musk. "Once he heard I'd shorted the stock, he was super mean to me, but he's super mean to so many people, so you can't take it too personally," Gates told Isaacson. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn 2022 alone, Gates contributed $5 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which was the largest single donation that year.

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