Biographer Walter Isaacson - who describes Musk as a “man-child” - details the CEO’s journey from a bullied kid in South Africa to the tech billionaire he is today. Isaacson got widespread access to Musk for over two years to write the book
He also explores Musk’s family life, various business ventures, the Twitter takeover, his struggles with Asperger’s, concerns about AI, SBF, and so much more.
He also explores Musk’s family life, various business ventures, the Twitter takeover, his struggles with Asperger’s, concerns about AI, SBF, and so much more.
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00:00 Elon Musk's bombshell biography hits the shelves.
00:04 Biographer Walter Isaacson, who describes Musk as a "man-child," details the CEO's
00:10 journey from a bullied kid in South Africa to the tech billionaire he is today.
00:14 Isaacson got widespread access to Musk for over two years to write the book.
00:19 He also explores Musk's family life, various business ventures, the Twitter takeover, his
00:24 struggles with Asperger's, concerns about AI, SBF, and so much more.
00:30 There's also gems like this quote from Musk, "Unless the woke-mind virus, which is fundamentally
00:35 anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human in general, is stopped, civilization will never
00:40 become multi-planetary."
00:42 What do we think about civilization becoming multi-planetary?
00:44 Sounds like this is going to be quite the story about Elon.
00:48 It sounds like he got a lot of really interesting access.
00:50 I'm curious to hear about his kids and all these other random...
00:53 I want to hear about his ketamine habits.
00:55 His ketamine habits?
00:56 Yeah, he's been doing a lot of it, I guess, casually, right?
00:58 At parties and stuff, supposed to help him.
00:59 Which we now know is a horse tranquilizer.
01:01 Yep, yep.
01:02 But, yeah, I'm excited for this to come out.
01:05 I mean, Walter is like an OG in the tech reporting journalism world, so I think there's no better
01:09 person to kind of tell this story than him.
01:11 So yeah, it's exciting to see...
01:13 "Man-child," though, it doesn't seem like Walter likes Elon.
01:18 I mean, I just think it's also, like, accurate.
01:20 I mean, come on.
01:21 We see his behavior on the internet.
01:22 I mean, he's kind of like you in that sense.
01:24 And as you read through this, it's kind of like, "Huh, a lot of this sounds like you.
01:27 Struggles with Asperger's, twins, okay."
01:31 You're telling me my parents are lying to me?
01:34 I should get a check from the government, honestly.
01:36 I've got three days of absolute turmoil I went through.
01:40 Anyways, what's the next article, Brian?
01:43 Bring it up.
01:44 I don't want to sit with my thoughts anymore.
01:45 (upbeat music)