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A review by inkerly
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
3.0
This felt more like one of those E!Hollywood documentaries on the star studded life of celebrities . Take that as you will. But the author never fails, in my opinion, to cheekily reiterate how much of a whiz genius God Elon Almighty is.
How amazing is Elon, you ask?
Soooooooooo amazing, he was born that way. Like seriously.
No but for real. Aside from the ridiculous attempt at making Elon this underdog “rags” (if by rags, his parents both coming from entrepreneurial backgrounds) to riches story, this book rubbed me the wrong way. It’s written like a newspaper article but shows obvious idolatry for Elon. Yet also underhandedly dismisses the larger contributions of his co-founders and staff and downplays his glaring narcissistic traits.
Being a tyrant CEO is NOT the reason why he is as successful as he is. It’s because of his vision, his persistence, and his passion and ability to allow his employees to share that passion as a true lean agile startup. I feel uncomfortable when I read books like this that go for the “If it weren’t for such and such billionaire stomping on [insert hardworking individual that is revered but apparently a shmuck]’s neck to get to point X, we may never have accomplishment Y”. Apparently I have to get used to the fact that the rich are successful because they’re cutthroat.
I was actually very enthralled by the making of Zip2 , PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX. I loved every page dedicated to the journey. Not the ridiculous pseudo-macho-fboy side of Elon that’s revered as “boss”, not the cheesy liners——but understanding Elon’s vision and the way the projects were built from ground 0 to takeoff (pun intended). I just regretted the narrative I had to read it in.
Maybe if Elon himself had written/narrated this I would have given higher rating. After all, even though he’d still sound like the same jacka**, at least you know that there will be bias. Whereas this book tries to dual as both as a biopic and (poorly framed)journalistic piece. And at the end I could not stand the latter.
How amazing is Elon, you ask?
Soooooooooo amazing, he was born that way. Like seriously.
No but for real. Aside from the ridiculous attempt at making Elon this underdog “rags” (if by rags, his parents both coming from entrepreneurial backgrounds) to riches story, this book rubbed me the wrong way. It’s written like a newspaper article but shows obvious idolatry for Elon. Yet also underhandedly dismisses the larger contributions of his co-founders and staff and downplays his glaring narcissistic traits.
Being a tyrant CEO is NOT the reason why he is as successful as he is. It’s because of his vision, his persistence, and his passion and ability to allow his employees to share that passion as a true lean agile startup. I feel uncomfortable when I read books like this that go for the “If it weren’t for such and such billionaire stomping on [insert hardworking individual that is revered but apparently a shmuck]’s neck to get to point X, we may never have accomplishment Y”. Apparently I have to get used to the fact that the rich are successful because they’re cutthroat.
I was actually very enthralled by the making of Zip2 , PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX. I loved every page dedicated to the journey. Not the ridiculous pseudo-macho-fboy side of Elon that’s revered as “boss”, not the cheesy liners——but understanding Elon’s vision and the way the projects were built from ground 0 to takeoff (pun intended). I just regretted the narrative I had to read it in.
Maybe if Elon himself had written/narrated this I would have given higher rating. After all, even though he’d still sound like the same jacka**, at least you know that there will be bias. Whereas this book tries to dual as both as a biopic and (poorly framed)journalistic piece. And at the end I could not stand the latter.