VIDEO. Inside Elon Musk’s head

She is a highly controversial figure who has cut off all contact with the media since coming under fire from critics. The loss of half of his fortune in 2022, the difficulties of Tesla, the accusation of manipulation of the stock market price on Twitter, of encouraging toxic management within his companies, of the sacrifice of 1,500 guinea pigs in as part of his research in neuroscience or his fight “against political correctness” via the takeover of Twitter… What is the real face of Elon Musk?

Visionary, sorcerer’s apprentice or megalomaniac boss?

The multi-billionaire built his legend in San Francisco by creating a dozen companies focused on new technologies: Paypal, an online payment site, Tesla – two thirds of electric vehicles sold in the United States –, The Boring Company – which would dig tunnels to fight traffic jams -, Space X, the new space giant whose plan is to colonize Mars, or Neuralink, the latest and most secret, responsible for developing brain implants…

For Elon Musk, obsessed with the end of the world, only unlimited human and technological development will save our civilization. But what is in the head of this tireless entrepreneur who shakes up the established order? Is he a visionary genius, a sorcerer’s apprentice or a megalomaniac boss? Through exclusive documents and testimonies, including that of his father, from the United States to South Africa, “Special Envoy” set out to conquer Elon Musk.

A report by Pierre Monégier, Edward Bally, Elodie Delevoye, Elouen Martin, Arnaud Pacary and Benoît Sauvage broadcast in “Special Envoy” on May 25, 2023.

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