Bryan Mitchell/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — For all of his eccentricities, billionaire Elon Musk said he would never scold an employee for missing a company meeting to witness the birth of his child.
The claim is one of several in the upcoming book Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.
On Monday, the Washington Post published 22 standout quotes from the new book — among them that Musk crashes with Google founder Larry Page when he visits Silicon Valley and on another occasion, took a moldy Soviet era rocket manual as his poolside reading.
Among the quotes mentioned, Musk said two needed to be corrected.
The second quote in the round-up Musk said needs to be corrected is he never told a potential investor he has the “mentality of a samurai.”
One quote Musk didn’t flag as being wrong — he thinks putting a roller coaster in the Tesla factory in Fremont could be a winning idea.
“I’m actually wondering about putting in a roller coaster — like a functional roller coaster at the factory in Fremont,” he said, according to the book. “You’d get in, and it would take you around [the] factory but also up and down. Who else has a roller coaster? … It would probably be really expensive, but I like the idea of it.”
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