The Man Who Followed Elon Musk Everywhere: "Elon's Dad Abused Him, His Trans Child Disowned Him, And Here Are His Secrets For Success!" Walter Isaacson

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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If you enjoy hearing about industry changing innovation, I recommend you check out my conversation with Airbnb founder, Brian Chesky, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia6Di_ytiSE If you ever wanted to see inside the mind of the richest and most powerful man in the world, this episode is for you. Before becoming the world’s leading biographer, Walter Isaacson was formerly the chair and CEO of ’CNN’, the editor of ’Time’, and President and CEO of the ’Aspen Institute’. His best-selling biographies including, ‘Steve Jobs’, ‘Leonardo da Vinci’, ‘Einstein: His Life and Universe’, and most recently, 'Elon Musk'. In this conversation Walter and Steven discuss topics, such as: How he followed Elon Musk for 2 years Elon Musk’s childhood Elon’s abusive father The mental and physical scars of Elon’s childhood What haunts Elon Why Elon equates pain with love The 2 sides and personalities of Elon Elon’s ‘demon mode’ Why Elon loves drama and chaos What separates Elon from everyone else If he thinks Elon is a genius Elon’s first principle thinking Why Elon ignores rules and likes risk takers How 80% of people can’t work with Elon Why Elon bought Twitter How Twitter has hurt Elon Elon’s 3 aims for humanity Why there will be a mission to Mars in 30 years time Elon’s rules for success How Elon and Steve Jobs changed reality Why Elon is not happy Elon and Jeff Bezo’s rivalry You can purchase Walter’s new biography, ‘Elon Musk’, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elon-Musk-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1398527491 Follow Walter: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/walter_isaacson/ Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now: https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3nIkGAZ Twitter: http://bit.ly/3ztHuHm Linkedin: https://bit.ly/41Fl95Q Telegram: http://bit.ly/3nJYxST Sponsors: Eight Sleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/uk/steven/ CODE: STEVEN (save $150 on the Pod Cover) Uber One: https://www.uber.com/gb/en/u/uber-one/ Huel: https://g2ul0.app.link/G4RjcdKNKsb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.4	You're the only person on earth that followed Steve Jobs and Elon Musk for years and years.
0:50.0	So, what did you learn?
0:52.0	This is going to be a fun ride.
0:54.0	Walter Isacinth, one of the greatest biography writers ever.
0:58.0	Whose work allows all of us to learn from some of the greatest minds in history.
1:02.0	And all the people I've written about,
1:03.5	who are disruptors, they tend to have had demons driving them.
1:07.6	But for Elon Musk, it was particularly brutal.
1:11.0	They scrawny kid on the autism spectrum, no friends, beaten up quite often, but the
1:17.0	scars from that were minor compared to what happened when he went home.
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