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by Ashlee Vance, 2015
Who uses, recommends or left Elon Musk, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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This has three startup stories in one book
From his “Summer Reading” essay, in the section he introduces as “my favorite startup books”.
2021-08-05·askgib.substack.com ↗
The back half is kind of a hit piece on his Twitter acquisition in way way too much detail
From the “Books and other stuff” section of his end-of-year post, introduced as “some of my favorite (mostly non-work) reads from the past year”. He says the first half is great and that “the real definitive biography is yet to be written”.
2024-01-03·andrewchen.com ↗
Great stories from Elon Musk’s youth, early companies, Tesla, and SpaceX. Many I’ve never heard before.
On his public list of books he has read, with his notes.
2015-01-01·radex.io ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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