Like many of the super-rich, Elon Musk has one eye on his legacy, eager to form how his large fortune is perceived now and sooner or later. This maybe explains why he lately shared the truth that Walter Isaacson, biographer of Steve Jobs, is writing a e book about him.
“If you happen to’re interested in Tesla, SpaceX & my common goings on, @WalterIsaacson is writing a biography,” tweeted Musk.
He added in subsequent tweets that Isaacson has shadowed Musk “for a number of days thus far,” and that he “significantly favored” Isaacson’s biography of US founding father Benjamin Franklin. He additionally repeated that he will “possibly in the future” write his personal autobiography.
There have been a quantity books written about Musk’s life and his profession, together with a 2015 biography, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Implausible Future, by Ashlee Vance. The e book, which Musk contributed a number of interviews to, was effectively obtained by reviewers. The Monetary Occasions called it “a riveting portrait of Silicon Valley’s most pushed entrepreneur […] private flaws and all,” whereas The New York Occasions offered similar praise, although famous that the work sometimes veered “towards hagiography and the diction of stories releases.”
Musk has been much less pleased with different books written about him, although, together with Tim Higgins’ latest Energy Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Wager of the Century, which was printed earlier this month.
A review from The LA Times says Higgins’ e book “takes the shine off” Musk, displaying him to be “a hair set off of an govt who’s fast to fireside folks whether or not they deserve it or not.” The e book has generated quite a few information tales, together with a very wild story that Musk demanded to be made CEO of Apple after the iPhone-maker approached Tesla about an acquisition. Musk and Apple CEO Tim {Cook} have both denied that this ever happened.
With Isaacson, although, Musk will probably know what to anticipate. Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs was written with “unprecedented” entry to the Apple founder and praised for its element, readability, and emotional perception. However, as we noted in our own review from Laura June in 2011, the biography can be “in some respects […] a e book informed by means of the usually mentioned ‘actuality distortion discipline’ of Steve Jobs himself.”
“[T]hough different opinions or sides to a narrative are offered, Steve all the time has the final, blunt phrase,” says June of Isaacson’s biography. That feels like one thing Musk would love, too.