Silicon Valley’s Most Vainglorious Villain: Inside the Mind of Elon Musk

Plus: The Early Days of Tesla View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks November 10, 2020   Elon Musk's Totally Awful, Batshit-Crazy, Completely Bonkers, Most Excellent Year In 2020, the COVID-doubting, media-hating Twitterholic CEO became the third-richest man alive, SpaceX launched two astronauts into orbit, and Tesla became the most valuable car company on the planet. R E A D  M O R E »   Review: Hillbilly Elegy Is Shameless Oscar Bait Ron Howard, Amy Adams, and Glenn Close head to Ohio, with ugly results. R E A D  M O R E »   Why Princess Diana's Controversial 1995 Interview Continues to Sting As her brother Earl Spencer demands an inquiry into journalist Martin Bashir's behavior, a friend of Diana's looks back at the fallout. R E A D  M O R E »   The Hidden Depths of The Queen's Gambit The miniseries, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, makes a surprising argument about genius—and what kind of societies help it flourish. R E A D  M O R E »   Republicans Are Destroying Democracy to Protect Trump's Precious Feelings As the president mounts a long shot legal battle to overturn the results of the election, GOP officials are readily playing along: "What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?" one said. R E A D  M O R E »   This Photographer to the Stars Is Ready to Come Out as an Artist Matt Adam, an L.A.-based photographer with Toronto roots, has shot the likes of Justin Bieber, 21 Savage, Kanye West, the late Juice Wrld, and more—but his sights are always set on the next big thing. R E A D  M O R E »   From the Archive: Quiet Thunder Who in his right mind would finance an auto company start-up? In 2007, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of PayPal, the guy with a NASA contract for the next space shuttle, also expected to put a sold-out (to the likes of George Clooney, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin) fleet of electric sports cars on the road. Kicking the tires of the $92,000 Tesla, which went from 0 to 60 in four seconds, Michael Shnayerson learned the Silicon Valley saga of big dreams, technical snags, and Aha! moments that could spell the end of the internal-combustion engine. R E A D  M O R E » Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. Sign Up Now     This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.