이번 주와 다음 주에는
출간 예정인 일론 머스크 전기에 관한 다소 충격적인 내용을 가지고
영어학습하겠습니다.
일론 머스크 전기를 쓴 작가인 Walter Isaacson은
스티브 잡스 전기를 쓴 작가로서 상당히 유명한 인물입니다.
저는 대학 시절 TIME에서 종종 그의 글을 읽으면서
글 잘 쓴다는 느낌을 많이 받았습니다.
그가 전하는 일론 머스크에 관한 내용 중
트위터 인수와 관련된 내용이 다소 충격적입니다.
머스크의 큰 아들이었던 자비에르가
성전환을 통해 딸이 되었는데
그것이 트위터 인수에 큰 영향을 미쳤고
그 후 트위터 직원의 대량 해고로 이어졌다는 것인데요,
과연 어떤 사연이 있는지 알아보시면서
글쓴이의 섬세한 글솜씨를 저와 함께 감상해 보시죠.
The Real Story of Musk’s Twitter Takeover
In an exclusive excerpt from his new biography ‘Elon Musk,’ Walter Isaacson offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most surprising and controversial decisions of the mogul’s career.
By Walter Isaacson
In April 2022, things were going surprisingly well for Elon Musk. Tesla stock had risen 15-fold in five years, making it worth more than the next nine auto companies combined. SpaceX in the first quarter of 2022 launched twice as much mass into orbit as all other companies and countries combined. Its Starlink satellites had just succeeded in creating a privately owned internet, providing connectivity to 500,000 subscribers in 40 countries, including Ukraine.
It promised to be a glorious year, if only Musk could leave well enough alone. But that was not in his nature.
Shivon Zilis, who manages Neuralink (Musk’s company working on implantable brain-computer interfaces) and is the mother of two of his children, noticed that by early April he had the itchiness of a video-game addict who has triumphed but couldn’t unplug. “You don’t have to be in a state of war at all times,” she told him that month. “Or is it that you find greater comfort when you’re in periods of war?”
“It’s part of my default settings,” he replied. As he put it to me, “I guess I’ve always wanted to push my chips back on the table or play the next level of the game.”
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