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Musk grew impatient with the speed and quality of the roofing installation at SolarCity, which had been acquired by Tesla. He tore into the engineers, criticizing them for every detail, and told them that they should install roofs themselves so that they would recognize when their designs failed. He pushed them to install roofs faster and cut costs. He summoned one of the employees, Brian Dow, to fly out to Boca Chica. Dow did so, even though it was his birthday. Together, Dow and Musk brainstormed plans to cut costs and Musk grilled Dow on details. However, Musk decided that Dow was not up to his standards, so he fired him.

Chapter 60 Summary: “Solar Surge: Summer 2021”

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Elon and Kimbal were upset that Burning Man, the festival in the Nevada desert, was canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19. They organized an unauthorized event called “Renegade Burn” at the same desert site. Grimes and Elon broke up in 2021, but their relationship “became a roller coaster of companionship, co-parenting, loneliness avoidance, boundary <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Literary Device" href="https://www.supersummary.com/setting/">setting</a>, estrangement, blocking, ghosting, and re-embracing” (380). They attended the 2021 Met Gala together.

Chapter 61 Summary: “Nights Out: Summer 2021”

Chapter 62 Chapter 62 Summary: “Inspiration4: SpaceX, September 2021”

Chapter 63 Chapter 63 Summary: “Raptor Shake-up: SpaceX, 2021”

Chapter 64 Chapter 64 Summary: “Optimus is Born: Tesla, August 2021”

Chapter 65 Chapter 65 Summary: “Neuralink: 2017-2020”

Chapter 66 Chapter 66 Summary: “Vision Only: Tesla, January 2021”

Chapter 67 Chapter 67 Summary: “Money: 2021-2022”

Chapter 68 Chapter 68 Summary: “Father of the Year: 2021”

Chapter 69 Chapter 69 Summary: “Politics: 2020-2022”

Chapter 70 Chapter 70 Summary: “Ukraine: 2022”

Chapter 71 Chapter 71 Summary: “Bill Gates: 2022”

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