I suspect his book is going to seem a lot tougher, it'll be interesting to see how Elon reacts to it. I don't think he's a let the chips fall where they may kind of fella. The price you pay for a Walter Isaac Sim biography, which people want, Steve Jobs wanted, Elon wanted to tweet about it right away. But then you have your own megaphone of 130 million plus and counting people who you can just tell them that with all lies. Even though he cooperated for a full year, but we'll see. We'll see.
Does Kara ever get sick of talking about Elon Musk? That’s a question Nayeema asks today, and they both agree: as exhausting as he can be, Elon is a defining force in business, media and innovation. So today we turn to the titan’s biographer: Walter Isaacson. He’s written the book on everyone from Leonardo da Vinci to Steve Jobs, and is now deep in the Elon Files.
Taped in front of a live audience at the New Orleans Book Festival, Kara and Isaacson discuss whether Elon is driven primarily by narcissism or mission (aka the “prick to productivity ratio”), how Elon does and doesn’t compare to Steve Jobs, and how Isaacson approaches his job as a biographer of some of the world's biggest personalities, both alive and dead.
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