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Hubris Maximus: Pride, prejudices, and the nine lives of Elon Musk
How Elon Musk continues to emerge unscathed despite his most outrageous tweets and pronouncements
Prosenjit Datta
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Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
by Faiz Siddiqui
Published by HarperCollins
268 pages ₹599
Elon Musk's life and business shenanigans make for highly readable books. Apart from becoming staggeringly rich — and at one point the world's richest man — he is eccentric, utterly arrogant, super confident in his own abilities, extremely inconsistent and, finally, given to impulsive decisions. He has built a legion of followers who swear by him and are willing to go to war against his perceived enemies after a single post by him on X (earlier Twitter). His personal life and beliefs are even more colourful.
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