The long-awaited new biography of Elon Musk, released today in the United States, describes a man who is complex, obsessed with conquering space, with brutal management methods and a lack of empathy.

THE Walter Isaacsonknown for a series of successful biographies, most notably that of the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (2011), had unprecedented access to the quirky entrepreneur, whom he interviewed extensively.

According to excerpts from the book, cited by US media with access to the work, the author describes an Elon Musk consumed by the desire to make the human species ‘multiplanetary’ thanks to his aerospace company, SpaceX.

According to Musk, the “woke virus” – a reference to activism aimed at promoting and defending all minorities – risks derailing the colonization of other planets, first and foremost Mars, because it is “generally anti-human” and must “be let’s stop”.

According to Walter Isaacson, the richest man in the world is a “big kid”which remains scarred from a youth in which he was regularly bullied at school.

Elon Musk spoke openly to his biographer about the Asperger syndromea form of autism from which he has been diagnosed, which explains, according to him, the fact that he is “not good at decoding signals” in his relationships with others.

Of South African descent, he is said to be “attracted to storms and drama” and has “unpredictable emotional swings”, which manifest in the way he runs the businesses he heads.

In the book, which will be released in France tomorrow, Wednesday, they are mentioned examples of Elon Musk’s angerwho he becomes furious when his employees do not live up to his expectations and is ready to humiliate them if they oppose him.

According to the singer Grimes, a former partner of the businessman, this latter “haunted” when expressing his irritation, a situation that “creates a lot of chaos,” he told the biographer.

Walter Isaacson reveals about the Canadian artist that she had a third child with Elon Musk through a surrogate, while the former couple had only talked about two babies until now.

So it increases to ten are the number of Elon Musk’s known living childrentwo of which he had with a female executive of one of his companies, Neuralink, to whom he donated sperm.

“He wants people to have children,” Siobhan Gillies, mother of twins born in 2021, explained to the author.