Elon Musk is a self-proclaimed historical past buff.

“He likes army historical past,” Walter Isaacson, the creator of a much-anticipated Musk biography, instructed Axios. “He believes there are classes that apply to company life.”

Certainly one of his inspirations was Napoleon Bonaparte, the French army genius who rose to energy throughout the French Revolution and have become Emperor of France.

Isaacson factors to 1 management technique Musk realized from studying about Bonaparte.

“He believes that wherever Napoleon was, that is the place his armies would do greatest. So he favored to indicate up late at night time on the meeting strains at Tesla and SpaceX,” Isaacson mentioned.

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Sharing the battlefield

For instance, whereas engineers have been constructing a Starship booster on the SpaceX launch web site in Boca Chica, Texas, Musk hung across the space for an hour, observing.

“In the event that they see their common on the battlefield, they are going to be extra motivated,” Musk instructed Isaacson.

This may increasingly additionally clarify why Musk spends a lot time within the ‘X’ workplaces. In keeping with an article within the BBC, Musk has put in beds in Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters in order that he can sleep there.

In keeping with worker Dolly Singh, Musk slept on the workplace ground at SpaceX.

“Elon needs to stay in a world the place he works 80 hours per week,” she mentioned. “It is OK for him to say, ‘I anticipate you to work as laborious as me,’ as a result of he isn’t phoning it in from the seashore, he is sleeping in a sleeping bag on the manufacturing unit ground.”

In regards to the new biography

The intimate, new biography entitled Elon Musk will drop on September 12. Isaacson, who additionally wrote bestselling biographies of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci, spent two years shadowing Musk. He was given unprecedented entry, attending conferences with him and becoming a member of him for walks round his factories. He additionally spent hours interviewing him, his household, pals, coworkers, and adversaries.

In regards to the cage match

Oh, and talking of Musk’s adversaries, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is undoubtedly one, as evidenced by all of the discuss a cage match between the 2 billionaires.

However Isaacson instructed Axios he thinks discuss of Zuckerberg preventing Musk in a cage match “is totally ridiculous.”

A couple of days in the past, he shared a screenshot of a textual content trade between Musk and Zuckerberg, making the combat look like it will not occur anytime quickly.

I received this textual content message from Elon Musk at 4:44am CT displaying a screenshot of some textual content messages through which he tells Mark Zuckerberg they need to combat this Monday at Zuckerberg’s house in Palo Alto. pic.twitter.com/krgRsH5P5G

— Walter Isaacson (@WalterIsaacson) August 13, 2023