Steve Jobs' Biographer Walter Isaacson Is Writing a Book About Elon Musk

[Mac4Mat]

Fraud, blood-diamond, emerald mining... 😂
It's really fun to watch all the misconceptions and cognitive stupidity here about Elon Musk.
MacRumors bloggers have also certainly done a poor job.
The man is super authentic and is sincerely trying to save humanity.
Well, there will always be ungrateful ones among us.

super authentic...not by any chance posting are you Elon!

 

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Don’t care

Governments waste money all the time. This time they partnered with someone that had the right vision and team. Infrastructure investments and tax credit schemes benefit lots of companies.

I don’t care if he was privileged at birth and had connections to the National Party’s Foreign Minister Pik Botha. He’s naturalized American and is building huge careers for Americans of all backgrounds, and allowing them to make their dreams come true.

I don’t care if he has goofy names for his kids.

I don’t care if he smoke a blunt with Rogan. I think Tim Apple should pass the peace pipe with Rogan as well.

I don’t care that he is prone to blunder and overpromises. He has already delivered things that I wouldn’t believe I’d ever see if you would had asked me just a decade ago.

Musk delivers and is building our future.

Elon Musk doesn't build anything. He co-opts existing structures and fortifies them with huge amounts of tax-payer money.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Elon Musk doesn't make anything. Never has, probably never will.

Well, his 'shell company' made it. His 'people' made it. I'm surprised I didn't see one on 1/6.

 

[DanTSX]

was

Not anti Tesla shorter talking points, just facts. You are obviously unaware that viability does not mean gaining credits from real bulk car manufacturers, or getting the biggest grants and subsidies seen, and where no doubt that's happened in China and a drop of hat production can be curtailed in the U.S. to China or to the next government willing to pay even more in subsidy and grant. Elon didn't make EV cool? The EV was demonstrated in the US in 1890! Many variants of the EV surfaced, but NONE Of them on the back of massive kickbacks from other car companies, or massive subsidies and grants from States. New York even had a fleet of 60 electric cabs! By 1990 EV's represented 30% of vehicles on the roads....what percentage of EV's are there now? Not my statistics but from Department of Energy.

we’re not taking about 1890’s EVs or 1990’s EV’s. We’re all aware of the Pope Automobile Company of Hartford Connecticut. And it has zero to do with the fact that the Model S is the first EV that would get parked prominently by a Valet in front of a Michlin star restaurant.

Tax credits didn’t make Tesla cool or desirable so not sure where you are going with that. Other manufacturers had various tax benefits (including outright bailouts) many times over the years.

 

[DanTSX]

Elon Musk doesn't build anything. He co-opts existing structures and fortifies them with huge amounts of tax-payer money.

Which is something that nobody else was doing effectively….until Elon and his dream and drive came along….

Why wouldn’t you use the existing power infrastructure? It’s everywhere. Why wouldn’t you use a disused Toyota Corolla factory? It was sitting unused. Now we have good jobs and desirable American cars! It’s a damn industrial renaissance but cleaner and humane.

 

[DanTSX]

Well, his 'shell company' made it. His 'people' made it. I'm surprised I didn't see one on 1/6.

Wait, what?

You’re losing us.

Are you trying to change topics and draw someone into saying something about 1/6?

 

[DanTSX]

Nevermind

 

[SFjohn]

Why is this even on MacRumors? The guy that wrote a book about an Apple executive writes something else? I don’t get how this is in anyway relevant.

 

[DanTSX]

Why is this even on MacRumors? The guy that wrote a book about an Apple executive writes something else? I don’t get how this is in anyway relevant.

Four pages of heated debate is good for business

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Wait, what?

You’re losing us.

Are you trying to change topics and draw someone into saying something about 1/6?

Why would I do that. I was just surprised I haven't seen one. By the time I heard about them, I missed out on getting one. *shrug*

 

[DanTSX]

Why would I do that. I was just surprised I haven't seen one. By the time I heard about them, I missed out on getting one. *shrug*

I’m asking what exactly it is that you were surprised you didn’t see on 1/6?

 

[XtraSmiley]

Anyone else think this guys last book about Jobs was a super boring read? The movie it was based on couldn't even be saved. I think this guy is a boring biographer, so he'll probably muck this one up too.

 

[JDuggan]

Where there's money to be made (and links to be clicked) ...

 

[4jasontv]

Anyone else think this guys last book about Jobs was a super boring read? The movie it was based on couldn't even be saved. I think this guy is a boring biographer, so he'll probably muck this one up too.

The movie it was based on? LOL.

 

[MacBH928]

Am I living under a rock? I really see no signifcance with this man. I am not against him, its just that he is a rich fellow nothing more nothing less?!
I will give him credit for pushing electricity in vehicles but thats hardy worth writing a book about.

 

[PC_tech]

Am I living under a rock? I really see no signifcance with this man. I am not against him, its just that he is a rich fellow nothing more nothing less?!
I will give him credit for pushing electricity in vehicles but thats hardy worth writing a book about.

And SpaceX…..

 

[Dephtones]

Two terrible humans that are good at technology. No interest there for me but I’m sure it will be a best seller.

 

[kalsta]

Let's hope it's better than the SJ book - that thing read like a Wikipedia page.

The best book I've read is Becoming Steve Jobs, which is really fleshed out.

Couldn’t agree more. Jobs made a mistake choosing Isaacson, which he probably would have acknowledged had he been around to read it. Becoming Steve Jobs was by far the more interesting biography.