OPINION - Elon Musk lives in a world of superheroes, but is he about to fall to earth?

• Musk, as we all know, is the world’s richest person: pushing the boundaries of electric cars with Tesla, of space travel with SpaceX, and of taste with Twitter (or X, as he now calls it). The detail is startling, from Tesla’s president lying down in the dark, on the floor of the conference room next to a heartbroken Elon trying to cajole him onto an earnings call, to Musk eating his 47th birthday cake with his fingers in the middle of his factory (nobody had thought to bring cutlery). Zoom out and the wealth of detail helps answer a big question about Musk: what drives him?