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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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☆ 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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☆ 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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☆ 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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☆ Musk's college friend quit working with him at Zip2 after only 6 weeks: 'I knew I could either be working with him or be his friend, but not both'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Polly Thompson | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Farooq came to work for Musk at his first company, Zip2, but quit just six weeks into the job. Farooq told biographer Walter Isaacson that he soon "found himself in fights with Musk." In 1995, Musk was in the midst of getting his first company, Zip2, off the ground with his brother, Kimbal. "We completely entered a zone for hours until we were exhausted," Farooq told Isaacson. But working under the notoriously intense Musk was too much for Farooq and he lasted just six weeks at Zip2 before quitting.

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☆ Tesla's long-promised $25,000 car could look as futuristic as the Cybertruck, Elon Musk's biographer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Alexa St. John | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Tesla CEO Elon Musk hasn't always prioritized the $25,000 electric car he's promised. Musk has long been more interested in a robotaxi, Musk's biographer Walter Isaacson told Axios. Tesla executives have convinced Musk to do both. In a design review session earlier this year, mockups of both the robotaxi and the $25,000 EV had a futuristic design not unlike the long-awaited Cybertruck. Back-and-forth promisesBut Musk has a complicated history regarding his promises about building a $25,000 EV.

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☆ Musk once tried to stop Google's DeepMind acquisition in 2014, saying the future of AI shouldn't be controlled by Larry Page
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

At Musk's 2013 birthday bash, he and Larry Page discussed AI's role in humanity's future, per biographer Walter Isaacson's retelling. Page labeled Musk a "specist," while Musk defended his views as "pro-human." Musk even attempted to stop Google's acquisition of AI company DeepMind, saying Page shouldn't control the future of AI, Isaacson wrote in a Time Magazine report. Per Isaacson, the reason behind the thwarting attempt was Musk's distrust of then-CEO of Google, Larry Page, and his views towards AI. Musk, Page, and Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Elon Musk blocked Ukraine's access to Starlink near Crimea after speaking with Russian officials, biographer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk reportedly blocked Ukraine from using Starlink for an attack on Russia's Black Sea Fleet. SpaceX has admitted to limiting Ukraine's use of Starlink satellites for offensive military operations. But according to journalist Walter Isaacson, author of an upcoming biography on the SpaceX founder, the militarization of Starlink has made Musk deeply uncomfortable. AdvertisementAdvertisementIt has previously been reported — and admitted by SpaceX leadership — that steps have been taken to prevent Ukraine from using the Starlink system for certain attacks. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe system was "never meant to be weaponized," Shotwell said earlier this year, citing Ukraine's use of Starlink for drone reconnaissance and attacks.

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☆ Elon Musk's twins with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis have surprisingly normal names
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis' twins have unexpectedly normal names. Musk biographer Walter Isaacson revealed the twins' names in a cover story for Time magazine published on Wednesday. The names of Zilis' twins are relatively simple when compared to what Musk and the musician Grimes named their two kids. Besides his four children with Zilis and Grimes, Musk shares five children with his ex-wife Justine Musk. "A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far," read the X post published on July 7.

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☆ Elon Musk says his daughter who ditched his last name 'doesn't want to spend time with me'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk was "pained" by the fallout with his eldest daughter, his biographer wrote in a new book. Musk told Walter Isaacson that his daughter "doesn't want to spend time with me." Musk's daughter legally changed her name in 2022 and said she didn't want to be associated with him. AdvertisementAdvertisement"She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil," Isaacson said Musk told him. The biographer said Musk told him he'd "made many overtures," but "she doesn't want to spend time with me."

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☆ This story of when Steve Jobs 'blew up' over a photographer is a classic example of what his biographer called 'Bad Steve'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Steve Jobs apparently "blew up" because he was unhappy with a photographer ahead of iMac's release. Levy writes that Jobs also was also unsure of a different photographer, but eventually was won over. A quarter of a century ago, in 1998, Steve Jobs announced the iMac — a piece of technology that reverberated across the personal computer industry and aided Apple's comeback. Jobs didn't calm down until Clow showed Jobs that the colors were in fact, correct, the biographer wrote in his book. Andy Cunningham, for example, told Insider that Jobs fired her "about five times."

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☆ X CEO says she's seen Elon Musk training for a cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg. But she's not so sure it'll happen.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

X CEO Linda Yaccarino said she's not sure if Elon Musk will actually fight Mark Zuckerberg. She said she's seen Musk train, but it "may be a humorous back-and-forth between Zuck and Musk." Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, which was formerly known as Twitter, said on Thursday that's she not sure if Elon Musk will go through with his offer to fight Mark Zuckerberg in a cage match. The X CEO said it's important that the excitement around a potential matchup between the two billionaires doesn't take away from "the potential of X." Musk and Zuckerberg have a longstanding feud and Meta's recent roll-out of its X competitor Threads only appears to have fueled the fight.

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☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with former CNN CEO and Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with former CNN CEO and Elon Musk biographer Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson, Perella Weinberg partner, Tulane University professor, former CNN chairman and CEO and Elon Musk biographer, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss Warner Bros. Discovery earnings results, the media landscape at large in the age of partisanship, the integration of A.I., and more.

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☆ Elon Musk pushed for PayPal's website to be rebranded as X.com more than 20 years ago, but focus groups reportedly thought it sounded like a porn website
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Gabriel Rivera | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X over the weekend — a name that has long been one of his favorites. But focus groups thought the name sounded "seedy," according to Musk biographer Walter Isaacson. Musk wanted the company to be rebranded either as X.com or X-PayPal, but his fellow executives disagreed. Several of Musk's brands among his slate of companies include the letter X, including SpaceX and the more recent company xAI. Over the weekend, he changed the company's logo from the iconic blue bird to a white letter X against a black backdrop.

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☆ Elon Musk relishes the drama, says biographer Walter Isaacson
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailElon Musk relishes the drama, says biographer Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson, 'Elon Musk' Biographer, joins 'Last Call' to discuss Musk's decision to change Twitter to 'X'.

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☆ Elon Musk's stress-tests: The Tesla CEO has an approach for picking leaders and sussing out anyone 'bullshitting' him, biographer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Walter Isaacson said Elon Musk uses multiple tactics when it comes to selecting leaders. He also likes to use skip-level meetings to chat with workers lower on the corporate ladder, Isaacson said. Elon Musk has a special intuition or "neural network" when it comes to picking leaders at his companies, the billionaire's biographer Walter Isaacson said. The biographer said Musk is likely to use skip-level meetings during big projects or ahead of major company events, like a SpaceX Starship test. Musk and spokespeople for SpaceX and Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

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☆ Elon Musk wouldn't be who he is without 'demon mode' and his drive: Musk biographer Walter Isaacson
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailElon Musk wouldn't be who he is without 'demon mode' and his drive: Musk biographer Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson, Elon Musk biographer and partner at Perella Weinberg, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss Elon Musk and his management of Twitter, the competition against Threads, the impact of A.I. on the workforce, and more.

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☆ Watch CNBC's full interview with Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with Elon Musk biographer Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson, Elon Musk biographer and partner at Perella Weinberg, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss Elon Musk and his management of Twitter, the competition against Threads, the impact of A.I. on the workforce, and more.

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☆ A Tesla board member once locked Elon Musk's phone in a safe to keep him off Twitter. The billionaire forced hotel security to open it, biographer says.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Grace Kay | Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Antonio Gracias once locked Elon Musk's phone in a hotel safe, biographer Walter Isaacson said. The move by the Tesla board member was meant to stop Musk from tweeting late into the night. Musk got hotel security to unlock the safe around 3 a.m., Isaacson said. Tesla board member and close Musk confidant Antonio Gracias once took Musk's phone away to prevent him from tweeting late into the night, Isaacson said during a Twitter Spaces event on Wednesday. Musk later got hotel security to open the safe at around 3 a.m. so he could start tweeting again, Isaacson said.

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☆ Elon Musk has made Twitter a more contentious place, says Musk biographer Walter Isaacson
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailElon Musk has made Twitter a more contentious place, says Musk biographer Walter IsaacsonWalter Isaacson, Tulane University professor, Perella Weinberg advisory partner and author of the upcoming biography on Elon Musk, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss news of a federal judge restricting Biden administration officials from having contact with social media co mpanies, Elon Musk, Twitter, and more.

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☆ Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson says cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg won't happen: 'It's a metaphor'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Kali Hays | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have tacitly challenged each other to a fight. Musk biographer Walter Isaacson doubts any fight will become a reality. The odds that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg fight in a cage match are nil, according to Musk's biographer Walter Isaacson. The silly talk began when Musk a couple of weeks ago said he would fight Zuckerberg, who has recently gotten very into jiu-jitsu. Isaacson pointed to Threads, the Twitter-like app Zuckerberg is set to launch, as another element of the rivalry between the two.

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☆ 10 Things in Tech: Digital nomad regrets, a longevity researcher’s morning routine, and sun activity
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

In case you missed it: This is the last week of 10 Things in Tech. The EV company only has six gigafactories across the world: Fremont, California; Sparks, Nevada; Berlin; Shanghai; Austin, Texas; and Buffalo, New York. Each location is outfitted with solar panels, and Musk claims 100 gigafactories could supply the world with all of its energy. My colleague Graham Rapier takes us into the world of Tesla's gigafactories and breaks down what their futures could look like. In a world of remote work, they're trying to pay people the least amount of money to get work done (think freelancers and contractors).

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☆ Elon Musk's biographer saw him fly into 'demon mode.' It's hard to watch — but it also gets stuff done, he says.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Walter Isaacson said Elon Musk could be "brutal" and would go into "demon mode" at times. She told him that while it can be "unpleasant" to be around Musk when he's in demon mode, it's also the mode that "gets shit done." Isaacson said he attributed Musk's "dark streak" and his willingness to take risks to his relationship with his father, Errol Musk. Errol Musk denied he contributed to Musk's "dark streak" in an emailed statement to Insider, saying that "these days Elon and I are on fairly good terms." Tesla cofounder Martin Eberhard previously told Insider that Musk used to scream at him over press coverage on Tesla.

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☆ Op-ed: What Elon Musk really gets out of owning Twitter
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Matt Rosoff | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

As the owner of Twitter, Musk now controls a platform that has mounds of data about the connections among its users, their interactions, their interests and so on. Most important, by owning Twitter, Musk expands his reach far beyond his own fanbase. Musk has hinted at this in his statements about Twitter as a bastion of free speech. But so far, Musk seems to equate "free speech" on Twitter with "looser moderation." During his first weekend owning the service, Musk responded to Hillary Clinton by tweeting an unfounded, anti-LGBTQ conspiracy theory about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband.

☆ Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson on looming Twitter layoffs and potential user fees
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-31 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailElon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson on looming Twitter layoffs and potential user feesElon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson, history professor at Tulane University and advisory partner at Perella Weinberg Partners, joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss his conversations with Musk over the weekend as he moves to reorganize Twitter.

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