He was almost named “Nice Musk.” The richest man in the world was born, in 1971, exactly nine months after his parents’ honeymoon in France, and their initial thought was to name him after the city in which he had been conceived. In the end, they decided to name him after the bride’s grandfather, J. Elon Haldeman, which was for the best. Judging from Walter Isaacson’s new biography, Elon Musk’s success is largely due to the fact that he is smart, energetic, and virtuous, but not nice.
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