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Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social

Oh! Even better! He summarizes Isaacson’s book and Michael Lewis’s Going Infinite (about SBF) as “skilled accounts… of brilliant billionaires dedicated to saving the world.” He then concludes that “Musk may have done more practical world saving than any other business leader of his time.”

Bennett Tomlin@bft.wtf

I am going to collect some of my 'favorite' moments from Michael Lewis' Going Infinite in this thread

Bennett Tomlin@bft.wtf

Now that I have finally finished it, a thread of my 'favorite' parts in Walter Isaacson's 'Elon Musk', starting with:

Bennett Tomlin@bft.wtf

Isaacson claims Musk develped a "deep disdain" for Trump

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Isaacson claims Musk would have voted for Biden in 2020 if he was in a swing state

Bennett Tomlin@bft.wtf

Elon claimed that he would keep Alex Jones banned (he did not keep Alex Jones banned) saying at the time, "My firstborn child died in my arms, I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics, or fame."

Bennett Tomlin@bft.wtf

"FTX’s revenues were growing at an astonishing rate: from $20 million in 2019, to $100 million in 2020, to $1 billion in 2021." Did you know the unaudited balance sheet distributed for FTX's Series B-1 in 2021 showed only a single bank account with only $1.5m?

Bennett Tomlin@bft.wtf

“If it comes out in Forbes that I’m worth one hundred billion dollars, it’s going to be weird and it’s going to fuck things up.” Yeah the only reason he did not want to hand over the list of businesses to a group of Forbes investigators is because it would make him too rich