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Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century

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review remarked that "Higgins takes an in-depth and well-balanced look at the interplay between Musk’s swashbuckling mindset of “building the airplane as was heading down the runway” and the hardheadedness of Tesla's veteran engineers and leaders, who understood the rigors of making cars that could
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Tesla reporter Russ Mitchell reviewed the book and stated "I’ve covered Tesla as a reporter since 2016. When Higgins writes about facts and situations I’m familiar with, I can attest he’s right on the button, every time. If there’s any nonsense in “Power Play,” Higgins isn't the source of it."
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wrote that it "has done an outstanding job performed a deep dive into the nuts and volts of Tesla." The
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Following early coverage of the book, Elon Musk denied a featured anecdote where supposedly he and
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The cover of the book, depicting red and black chess pieces adorned with various car logos, with Tesla being the largest. Text is stylized in all-caps and reads "Tesla, Elon Musk, and the bet of the century / Power Play / Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal tech and auto reporter".
Doubleday
ISBN
978-0-385-54545-7
Elon Musk in 2018
Elon Musk
Awards and honors
Views
Filmography
Legal affairs
Zip2
X.com
PayPal
SpaceX
Starlink
Tesla, Inc.
Energy
criticism
litigation
OpenAI
Neuralink
The Boring Company
Thud
X Corp.
Twitter under Elon Musk
Twitter, Inc.
acquisition
xAI
Elon Musk (Isaacson)
Elon Musk (Vance)

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