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The new Musk bio is more love letter than personal history

The new Musk bio is more love letter than personal history

The entrepreneur’s much-anticipated biography has interesting anecdotes but is too sympathetic to its subject.

Mark Di StefanoColumnist
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As Walter Isaacson prepared to release his book about super entrepreneur Elon Musk, the famed biographer upped his Twitter use. Musk was on a bewildering and childish will-he-wont-he fight challenge with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

Last month, Isaacson stepped into the discourse, posting a screenshot of text messages between the pair, which showed the Facebook founder calling Musk’s bluff.

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Mark Di Stefano
Mark Di StefanoColumnistMark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com

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