I just finished reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future . It was delightful and inspiring. I recommend it, if you are into that sort of thing. I've also read Steve Jobs and The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon and it's even interesting how similar these guys were while being quite different. They all had different passions, upbringings, and paths to get to where they were. But they are also all highly intense, expect impossible things from their employees, have employees who develop an unwavering loyalty to them, and so much more. None of them were "nice" people in any sense of the word, although Elon definitely gets cut more slack than Bezos because he's "changing the future". If you want to catch an excerpt from the book, check it out: It's a very good representation of what the other 400 pages contain.
If I hadn't already given it to my dad to read, I'd send you my hardcover. It's really a great read. I will say, especially if you've read Steve Jobs, this one gets less and less objective as it goes on. It's still telling the story, but Isaacson did a great job of really being skeptical and laying down the full range of opinions from beginning to end. I don't think it's too gratuitous and I really didn't notice or mind it until looking back, but I already had a boner for Musk beforehand. It's still a great book and an amazing story.
Aw thanks, that's okay though it's gone on my wishlist and can keep for a bit. I don't really read any biographical works, but I really enjoyed An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth UK by Chris Hadfield. I'd highly recommend reading it but there was a great story he told from it in a TED talk which you should definitely watch. I seem to remember reading the story on the Guardian website but cannot find any trace of bar a tweet they sent out when the story went live. I wonder why that got removed?