What is it like to shadow Elon Musk for two years? To sit courtside as he builds a rocket? Or tears apart an engineer? Or couch surfs at the homes of billionaires? And how on earth do you make sense of it all? Walter Isaacson is the biographer of giants: DaVinci, Franklin, Doudna, Jobs...and now Musk, former enfante terrible, rocket launcher, electric car innovator, and Twitter—er, X—disruptor, to put it gently. In this four part series, author Evan Ratliff (Mastermind, Longform Podcast) sits down with Isaacson to draw out the behind-the-scenes stories of this epic biography, and what the writer has learned as an outsider inside Silicon Valley.
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12/12/23 • 3 min
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The Last Soviet - Introducing: On Musk with Walter Isaacson
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All right, we're ready. Yeah. Five weeks ago I sat down with biographer Walter Isaacson to try and unpack his new six hundred page biography of Elon Musk. Already some stories had jumped off the page. That night, he was deciding whether or not to allow starlink to be enabled to allow a sneak attack on Crimemea. When Isaacson set out to write this biography, he believed he was taking on a world changing figure. Must turns to his security guard, sa
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