"From the acclaimed author of biographies such as 'Steve Jobs,' comes an extraordinarily personal account delving into the life of one of our era's most captivating and controversial innovators—an unconventional visionary who played a pivotal role in advancing electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence, while also seizing control of Twitter.
During Elon Musk's childhood in South Africa, he endured regular beatings from bullies, with one particularly vicious incident leaving him hospitalized for a week, his face severely swollen. However, the emotional scars inflicted by his father, an engineer and charismatic dreamer, had a deeper and lasting impact on his psyche. Musk grew into a resilient yet emotionally vulnerable man, marked by sudden mood swings reminiscent of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He possessed an extraordinary risk tolerance, an appetite for drama, an immense sense of purpose, and a relentless intensity that was sometimes ruthless and even destructive.