Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue

The famous American writer Walter Isaacson, who recently finished writing the first authorized biography of Elon Musk, included in the book some revelations about a little-known side of the richest man in the world: the “demon mode”. ‘ which his biographer enters every time he has to be very productive, but something that can sometimes make you a ‘gloomy’ and ‘despicable guy with a real lack of empathy’. Almost a “monster”, then.

The author of best-selling biographies of personalities such as Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin and Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson accompanied Musk’s daily life for about two years and spoke about the experience in an interview on Twitter Spaces, last Saturday, which conceded to address its new work on the owner of X (formerly Twitter), Tesla and SpaceX. Simply titled “Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson,” the book hits shelves on September 23.

When the chat came to the villainous version of Musk, who has been dubbed “the real-life iron man” and whose fortune is US$225.3 billion (R$1.11 trillion), Isaacson said he was not credited with coming up with the nickname alluding to the centibillionaire’s alter ego. In fact, he explained that it was Musk’s ex-girlfriend and mother of two of his children, Canadian singer Grimes, who coined the term “demon mode,” as the artist told him. -even.

Ahead of the highly anticipated literary outing, however, Musk may have to resort to his “demon mode”, and for the first time in public, to win the cage fight against fellow ten-figure club member and business rival Mark Zuckerberg. , which he has been preparing for for months. It was confirmed on Monday, by the way, that the epic showdown between the two tech titans unprecedented in Silicon Valley will take place on the 26th.