Elon Musk is the richest man in world again, according to The Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index, a daily ranking of the world’s richest people that puts Musk back in first place with $221 billion.
Now streaming on Showmax, The Elon Musk Show gets to the heart of who the Pretoria-born billionaire really is, by interviewing the people who know him best. Family members, employees, close friends and enemies tell the intimate story of Elon’s incredible journey to becoming the world’s richest man.
The documentary series kicks off in 1995, in the early years of the Silicon Valley tech boom, when Elon is a geeky young South African battling to make his fortune, while sleeping on the floor of his office and washing at the local YMCA.
The Elon Musk Show charts how Elon became a multi-millionaire at the age of just 28 – and how close he came to losing it all with Tesla and SpaceX.
From building underground tunnels to creating chips that can be inserted into people’s brains to attempting to build the biggest battery factory the world has ever seen, The Elon Musk Show follows Elon until 2022 as he chases his remarkable dreams, which include taking humanity to Mars.
As The Independent (UK) says, “The Elon Musk Show is extremely well-made … beautifully and painstakingly blended together with real care and craft … Such is the attention to detail, it’s worthy of Musk himself.”
Nominated for a 2023 BAFTA for its music, The Elon Musk Show is made by 72 Films, who have also produced films on Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump. We caught up with Mark Raphael, the joint CEO of 72 Films.
