Elon Musk is one of the most influential people today. Co-founded the well-known payment platform PayPal and the aerospace company Spacex, among other. In addition, he is the executive director of Tesla, the largest electric car manufacturer in the world. These achievements probably explain the fact that Walter Isaacson, the author of the Steve Jobs biography, is working on a book about the South African tycoon.
As is customary in almost all types of advertisements, Elon Musk has used Twitter to spread the news. “If you are curious about Tesla, SpaceX and my stuff in general, Walter Isaacson is writing a biography,” wrote businessman on Twitter. Surprisingly, in just over an hour, the tweet almost touched the 100 thousand likes, a sign that the book will be well received.
In order for the biographer to do his job, he usually needs to be close to the person he is writing about. At any time you can obtain valuable information about the subject. In this sense, a user asked the businessman how much time he spends with the author and he replied that has been accompanying him for “several days”.
Elon Musk’s biography on the way
Also, the co-founder of SpaceX He said that he liked Walter Isaacson’s biography of the American politician and inventor, Benjamin Franklin. Asked if he would ever make an autobiography, Elon Musk answered that “maybe one day“, leaving the door open to be the protagonist of a rewritten about his life.
Unfortunately, Elon Musk did not provide details on when his biography written by Walter Isaacson will be released. However, it is not the only book on the life of the entrepreneur. South African writer Ashlee Vance wrote Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and The Search for a Fantastic Future, a work that was well received by critics.
Precisely the aforementioned book has been the percussion of the documentary Countdown, which in a total of five episodes will tell from within the entire SpaceX Inspiration4 mission to space, the first totally civilian. It is a work co-produced by Time Studios and directed by Jason Hehir, creator of The last dance. It will premiere on September 6.