Elon Musk – Part 1

Walter Isaacson

Elon Musk is the most recently published biography of the richest man in the world.

Published in 2023 it is by Walter Isaacson, a writer known for his big biographies of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs.

Elon is a self-made man. Some wrongly think he came from a rich family with his dad, Errol Musk, owning an emerald mine in Zambia, Africa.

His dad lost all his emerald business in the 1980s when the Russians created artificial emeralds in the lab. [p 13].

When the family migrated to Canada from South Africa, they shared a one-bedroom apartment with Elon sleeping on the couch. [p 42].

So how did Elon make millions of dollars and, subsequently, billions?

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