Elon Musk was rushed to the emergency room and needed stitches and a tetanus shot after his brother Kimbal bit off a chunk of flesh from his hand during a fight, in line with an upcoming biography of the Tesla mogul.
In response to creator Walter Isaacson, Kimbal Musk bit Elon Musk’s hand because he thought his brother was about to punch him within the face while they were each running the startup Zip2 greater than two decade ago.
An excerpt of Isaacson’s biography was cited by the news site Insider.
While co-running Zip2, which provided city guides to newspapers, the 2 brothers would often have “rolling-on-the-office-floor fights,” in line with Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk.
The fights took place in full view of Zip2 staffers because the company didn’t have private offices, Isaacson reported.
“After we had intense stress, we just didn’t notice anyone else,” Kimbal Musk told Isaacson.
The Musk brothers ran Zip2 until they sold the corporate to Compaq Computer in 1999 for $305 million. Elon Musk pocketed $22 million from the sale while Kimbal Musk earned $15 million.
In response to creator Walter Isaacson, Musk’s brother, Kimbal Musk, once bit off flesh from his sibling’s hand during a fight.Getty Images fpr SXSW
Isaacson’s book details Kimbal Musk’s misgivings about his brother’s social media habits, particularly the toll it was taking over Tesla, the electrical automobile maker.
Kimbal Musk, who’s a member of the board of directors of the corporate run by his brother, was said to be embarrassed by his sibling’s antics on X.
“The large elephant within the room was that he was acting like a f–king idiot,” Kimbal Musk is quoted as saying by Isaacson.
The posts by Elon Musk were “too nerve-racking” for Kimbal Musk — a lot in order that the latter stopped following the previous’s online activities, in line with Isaacson.
Musk’s posting online also earned him admonishment from peers in business.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav told Elon Musk that he was having trouble attracting top advertisers due to the “self-destructive” manner during which he ran the social-media giant, in line with a recent book.
Elon Musk and Kimbal Musk began the corporate Zip2, which they sold to Compaq Computer in 1999 for greater than $300 million.REUTERS
Media mogul Zaslav spoke to Musk for greater than an hour during a tumultuous period for the corporate formerly often called Twitter, which was acquired by the latter for $44 billion last 12 months.
In response to Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk, which is ready for release on Tuesday, Zaslav urged Musk to deal with improving the corporate’s product.
It’s unclear when the conversation took place.
The anecdote from Isaacson’s book was cited over the weekend by The Wall Street Journal.
Isaacson’s book also details Elon Musk’s difficult in managing relationships with people, particularly employees.
In response to Isaacson, Musk once threatened to fireplace a staffer at SpaceX, his rocket-building company, while completely unaware that the worker and his wife had just lost a newborn baby.
The SpaceX employee, a financial analyst, was grilled by Musk over a problem related to parts within the engine of the corporate’s Starship rocket.
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav admonished Elon Musk for his “self-destructive” ways, in line with a recent book.REUTERS
In response to Isaacson, Musk made it clear that he would demand the worker’s resignation if his job performance didn’t improve.
Gwynne Shotwell, Space’s president, reportedly noticed that the staffer’s job performance had tailed off within the weeks prior as a consequence of the proven fact that he and his wife lost their baby, in line with the book.
Musk was not aware of the couple’s ordeal, Isaacson reported.
The Post has sought comment from SpaceX, X, and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Musk acquired Twitter and followed through on his pledge to un-ban controversial figures whose accounts were suspended or deactivated by the previous management as a consequence of violations of its content moderation policies.
The move by the self-described “free speech absolutist” spooked advertisers who fled the platform, prompting Musk to lash out at “activist groups” who were “pressuring” brands “regardless that nothing has modified with content moderation and we did the whole lot we could to appease the activists.”
The anecdotes were reported by Walter Isaacson, the creator of a biography about Musk.AP
“Extremely tousled! They’re attempting to destroy free speech in America,” Musk added in a post on his social media platform just weeks after the acquisition.
Musk last week threatened to sue the Anti-Defamation League after he alleged that the civil rights group falsely accused X of fomenting anti-Semitism — leading to a flight of advertisers from the location.
X over the weekend vowed to step up enforcement of content moderation rules as they relate to anti-Semitic content.
Elon Musk has run into trouble for his social media habits.
In 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged him with securities fraud for misleading investors after he posted an item suggesting he would take Tesla private at $420 per share.
The number “420” is a slang term in cannabis culture which connotes consumption of marijuana and hashish.
Musk paid a settlement to the SEC. As a part of the deal, he pledged to have his social media posts vetted.
