Elon Musk

About the book

Elon Musk left South Africa at seventeen with a Canadian passport and a head full of science fiction. Nearly four decades later he runs the world's dominant rocket company and one of its most valuable carmakers. He owns a social network used by hundreds of millions of people and has become the largest political donor in American history.

This sourced, fact-checked biography follows his whole life so far:

• Zip2, X.com and the PayPal boardroom coup
• The three failed rocket launches and the 2008 crisis that nearly destroyed SpaceX and Tesla
• Model S, Autopilot, Starlink and Starship
• The break with OpenAI and the rise of xAI and Grok
• The $44 billion purchase of Twitter
• His turbulent months running DOGE, and his feud and reconciliation with Donald Trump
• The record SpaceX stock listing of 2026

Written for readers of every political view, it covers his achievements alongside the lawsuits, allegations and criticism they have drawn. Allegations are attributed, every quotation is checked against a published source, and the book includes a detailed timeline and a bibliography.

An independent biography, not authorized or endorsed by Elon Musk or any of his companies.