Elon Musk Book Recommendations
Curious what books Tesla and SpaceX CEO (PayPal cofounder as well) Elon Musk would recommend if you were to ask him? What books inspired his approach to business and entrepreneurship? What sort of fiction he has enjoyed reading?
If so… then I have a treat for you. Someone has put together a list, compiled from multiple references Elon Musk has made over the years, of books he seems to have been influenced by. Of course, Elon is known to have read an insane number of books, so this surely isn’t anything close to an exhaustive list.
It’s a rather interesting list, though — one that includes biographies of famous (and infamous) researchers, entrepreneurs, politicians, and business moguls; as well as science fiction novels and books on scientific topics. The list can be found here.
The list was actually brought to my attention by the commentator “cubensys,” so all credit goes to him/her for the share.
Here’s the full comment that led me to the list:
“I consider Elon Musk to be a visionary at the level of the best in history. You probably agree. Elon repeatedly talks about how important books are in his learning, and how his vision is inspired by them.
“So I found a list of books that Elon has recommended in different occasions. I’m going to be reading through it, hope to come out the other side with 1% of the guy’s brilliance!”
Overall, it’s quite an interesting list, even if a somewhat “safe” one. I can’t say that I’m surprised by any of the books on there. It would have been a bit more interesting (strange?) perhaps to see something like Ovid’s Metamorphoses or one of Herman Melville’s stories on it. I wonder if he reads things like that as well?
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