Elon Musk (Spanish Edition)

Ah, y el mismo que compr?Twitter.

Cuando Elon Musk era un ni隳 en Sud塻rica, sufr燰 a menudo acoso escolar. Un d燰 un grupo de ni隳s lo empuj?por unas escaleras de hormig鏮 y le patearon hasta que su cara se hinch?como una pelota. Pas?una semana en el hospital. Pero las cicatrices f疄icas fueron insignificantes comparadas con las emocionales, las que le hab燰 causado su padre, un canalla, ingeniero carism嫢ico y fantasioso. Cuando Elon lleg?a casa tras ser dado de alta del hospital, su padre le reprendi? «Tuve que escucharlo durante una hora mientras me gritaba, me llamaba idiota y me dec燰 que era un inil , recuerda.

El impacto psicol鏬ico que su padre le caus?perdur? Se convirti?en un joven fuerte pero vulnerable al mismo tiempo, propenso a bruscos cambios de humor -a lo Jekyll y Hyde-, con una gran tolerancia al riesgo, ansias de drama, un 廧ico sentido de misi鏮 y una intensidad man燰ca, cruel y a veces destructiva.

A principios de 2022, despu廥 de un a隳 marcado por el lanzamiento de treinta y un sat幨ites de SpaceX, la venta de un mill鏮 de coches de Tesla y de convertirse en el hombre m嫳 rico de la tierra, Musk confes?con arrepentimiento su impulso por provocar el drama. «Necesito cambiar mi forma de pensar para que deje de estar en modo crisis, como lo he estado en los timos catorce a隳s, o probablemente toda mi vida , explic?

Fue un comentario melanc鏊ico, no un prop鏀ito de a隳 nuevo. Cuando hizo la promesa, estaba comprando en secreto acciones de Twitter, el patio de recreo por excelencia. Con los a隳s, cuando se encontraba en un momento dif獳il, se ve燰 transportado de nuevo al acoso que sufri?en el patio del colegio. Ahora ten燰 la oportunidad de poseerlo.

Durante dos a隳s, Isaacson fue la sombra de Musk, asisti?a sus reuniones, recorri?juntos sus f墎ricas, y pas?horas entrevist嫕dolo a 幨, a su familia, amigos, compa鎑ros y adversarios. El resultado es un relato 璯timo y revelador, repleto de historias asombrosas, triunfos y perturbaciones, que aborda la pregunta: son los demonios que mueven a Musk tambi幯 lo que se necesita para impulsar la innovaci鏮 y el progreso?

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.

When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist.

His father's impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at times destructive.

At the beginning of 2022--after a year marked by SpaceX launching thirty-one rockets into orbit, Tesla selling a million cars, and him becoming the richest man on earth--Musk spoke ruefully about his compulsion to stir up dramas. "I need to shift my mindset away from being in crisis mode, which it has been for about fourteen years now, or arguably most of my life," he said.

It was a wistful comment, not a New Year's resolution. Even as he said it, he was secretly buying up shares of Twitter, the world's ultimate playground. Over the years, whenever he was in a dark place, his mind went back to being bullied on the playground. Now he had the chance to own the playground.

For two years, Isaacson shadowed Musk, attended his meetings, walked his factories with him, and spent hours interviewing him, his family, friends, coworkers, and adversaries. The result is the revealing inside story, filled with amazing tales of triumphs and turmoil, that addresses the question: are the demons that drive Musk also what it takes to drive innovation and progress?