Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk: "It's almost like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
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Whether you love Elon Musk or despise him, you have to admit he's interesting. As he himself stated while hosting "Saturday Night Live" in 2021, "I reinvented electric cars and I'm sending people to Mars on a rocket ship. Did you think I was also going to be a chill, normal dude?"
Walter Isaacson has written biographies of Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs, and this coming week CBS' sister company, Simon & Schuster, will publish his biography of Elon Musk. "You just have to say, 'I want to talk to you about Elon Musk,' and boom! People love talking," Isaacson said.
When asked what kind of access he had to Musk, he replied, "I said, 'I want to be by your side for two or three years. I want to be in every meeting.' And he said, 'Fine.'"
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