Elon Musk wanted to build a house that looked like it 'fell out of space,' new book reveals

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Elon Musk pictured with a prefabricated house that was delivered to SpaceX in 2021. He has said he is living in a $50,000 house he rents from the space venture.

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Elon Musk has been a sleep-deprived workaholic since starting his first business. It's no wonder he supports strict RTO mandates.

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Elon Musk.

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Elon Musk spent Christmas Eve moving servers at one of X's data centers in Sacramento, in an example of his 'recklessness' and 'impatience,' biographer says

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Elon Musk's new biography by Walter Isaacson was released on September 12.

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Elon Musk's biographer says the billionaire buying Twitter was 'insane' because he 'doesn't have empathy'

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Elon Musk passed out after drinking vodka in a meeting with Russians to buy rockets because he was hungover from partying in Paris, biography says

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Elon Musk, surrounded by Jared Kushner and other men in suits, drinks from a wine glass in the stands at the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar.
Elon Musk drinks from a wine glass at the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar.

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Elon Musk's biographer says Musk has 'multiple' personalities — he can be 'brutal,' and also 'frightening and inspiring all at once'

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Elon Musk.

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When working together at Zip2, Elon Musk had to go to the ER for stitches and a tetanus shot after his brother, Kimbal, once tore off a hunk of flesh from his hand

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Kimbal Musk and Elon Musk.

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Elon Musk really was telling the truth by saying his father Errol never owned an emerald mine, biographer says

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Errol Musk is Elon Musk's father.

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Elon Musk blocked Ukraine's access to Starlink near Crimea after speaking with Russian officials, biographer says

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SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has denied Ukrainian requests to activate Starlink near Crimea, according to biographer Walter Isaacson.

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Elon Musk privately pondered whether it was worth spending so much time focused on Twitter amid the threat of AI: 'It's not like I need to be richer or something'

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Elon Musk considered spending less time trying to fix Twitter in favor of focusing on AI concerns and colonizing Mars.

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