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The $100 MBA Show

MBA2428 Must Read: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever wonder what it takes to become a larger-than-life entrepreneur like Elon Musk? What challenges did he face? What can we learn from his journey?

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0:00.0

Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show, powerful business lessons you can count on.

0:14.7

I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar's in home.

0:17.8

And today's episode is a must read episode.

0:21.0

On our must read episodes, I share with you a book that has influenced me as an entrepreneur.

0:24.9

I share with you its takeaways, its insights, and why you should read it too.

0:29.1

Today's must read is Elon Musk by Walter Isakson.

0:34.0

In all honesty, I have delayed the release of this episode for some time.

0:38.3

First of all, it took me a while to read this book.

0:40.4

It's over 600 pages.

0:42.4

But it took me just as much time to form an opinion

0:45.0

to really think about what I consumed what I learned and how I feel about this

0:51.0

larger-than-life character Elon Musk. So much has said about him as the

0:54.8

wealthiest man of the world, as a business person, as an innovator, but this book goes far

1:00.1

deeper. And I can bet you're going to be surprised about what you learn about Yulun Musk in today's episode.

1:07.0

He's as inspiring as he is a cautionary tale.

1:11.0

More about that in a bit.

1:12.0

But I want to talk about Walter

1:13.4

Isakson, the author of this book, The Bush's one of the best biographers

1:18.1

of our time. He wrote biographies on Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and more.

1:24.8

And when he writes these biographies, he goes very, very deep.

1:29.1

We'll talk about what kind of research he did,

1:31.6

how he got to know Elon and all that kind of stuff so that he can

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