Muskian
English
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[edit]Muskian (comparative more Muskian, superlative most Muskian)
- Of or pertaining to Elon Musk (born 1971), entrepreneur and business magnate.
- 2015, Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Is Shaping Our Future, Virgin Books, →ISBN, pages 2 and 231:
- “Who is the best PR person in the world?” he asked in a very Muskian fashion. […] He’s an optimist by nature, and it can feel like he makes calculations for how long it will take to do something based on the idea that things will progress without flaw at every step and that all the members of his team have Muskian abilities and work ethics.
- 2019 December 5, David Booth, “Motor Mouth: The good, the bad and, whoa, ugly!”, in Windsor Star, page B12:
- Why anyone still pays any heed to Muskian pricing pronouncements is beyond me.
- 2020, Pepita Hesselberth, Joost de Bloois, “Introduction: Toward a Politics of Withdrawal?”, in Politics of Withdrawal: Media, Arts, Theory, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 3:
- Together, the essays in this volume seek to assemble withdrawal as a concept that, in turn, may help us to identify, regroup, and understand apparently diverging political and socio-cultural phenomena ranging from […] to the Trumpian/Muskian fantasies of intergalactic colonization disenchanted by Sharma in the coda to this book.
- 2022, Jimmy Soni, The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Company that Made the Modern Internet, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:
- Hindsight even allowed for Muskian humor. […] Musk had forecast rapid scale, but his team dismissed it as Muskian hyperbole.