Elon Musk - Волтер Айзексон

When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.

His father’s impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive.

At the beginning of 2022 after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. “I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life,” he said. 

It was a wistful comment, not a New Year’s resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world’s ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.

For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?

Волтер Айзексон – американський журналіст, письменник і біограф, президент Аспенського інституту, ексдиректор телекомпанії CNN та головний редактор журналу Time. Волтер народився у Новому Орлеані, де й навчався у школі. Вищу ж освіту він здобув у Гарвардському університеті за спеціальністю «історія та література». Свою журналістську діяльність він почав у часописах. З 2009 по 2012 роки він обіймав посаду голови Ради керуючих радіомовленням. Волтер ввійшов до списку 100 найвпливовіших людей світу за версією журналу Time. Волтер також є автором численних біографій, зокрема Айнштайна, Ілона Маска, Стіва Джобса та багатьох інших. Всесвітньо відомий американський підприємець, засновник Amazon та Blue Origin, власник The Washington Post і філантроп. За версіями деяких видань, Безос є одним з найбагатших людей в історії.

ISBN: 978-1398527539

Рік видання: 2025.

Розмір: 200x130x49 мм.