From the Book - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Prologue: Muse of fire --
A mind of his own: Pretoria, the 1970s --
Life with father: Pretoria, the 1980s --
The seeker: Pretoria, the 1980s --
Escape velocity: Leaving South Africa, 1989 --
Queen's: Kingston, Ontario, 1990-1991 --
Penn: Philadelphia, 1992-1994 --
Go west: Silicon Valley, 1994-1995 --
Zip2: Palo Alto, 1995-1999 --
Justine: Palo Alto, the 1990s --
X.com: Palo Alto 1999-2000 --
The coup: PayPal, September 2000 --
Rocket man: SpaceX, 2002 --
Fathers and sons: Los Angeles, 2002 --
Revving up: SpaceX, 2002 --
Musk's rules for rocket-building: SpaceX, 2002-2003 --
Mr. Musk goes to Washington: SpaceX, 2002-2003 --
Founders: Tesla, 2003-2004 --
The roadster: Tesla, 2004-2006 --
Kwaj: SpaceX, 2005-2006 --
Two strikes: Kwaj, 2006-2007 --
The SWAT team: Tesla, 2006-2008 --
Taking the wheel: Tesla, 2007-2008 --
Strike three: Kwaj, August 3, 2008 --
On the brink: Tesla and SpaceX, 2008 --
The fourth launch: Kwaj, August-September 2008 --
Saving Tesla: December 2008 --
The Model S: Tesla, 2009 --
Private space: SpaceX, 2009-2010 --
Falcon 9 liftoff: Cape Canaveral, 2010 --
Marrying Talulah: September 2010 --
Manufacturing: Tesla, 2010-2013 --
Musk and Bezos: SpaceX, 2013-2014 --
The falcon hears the falconer: SpaceX, 2014-2015 --
The Talulah roller coaster: 2012-2015 --
Artificial intelligence: OpenAI, 2012-2015 --
The launch of autopilot: Tesla, 2014-2016 --
Solar: Tesla energy, 2004-2016 --
The Boring Company: 2016 --
Rocky relationships: 2016-2017 --
Descent into the dark: 2017 --
Fremont factory hell: Tesla, 2018 --
Open-loop warning: 2018 --
Shanghai: Tesla, 2015-2019 --
Cybertruck: Tesla, 2018-2019 --
Starlink: SpaceX, 2015-2018 --
Starship: SpaceX, 2018-2019 --
Autonomy day: Tesla, April 2019 --
Giga Texas: Tesla, 2020-2021 --
Full throttle: SpaceX, 2020 --
Bezos vs. Musk, round 2: SpaceX, 2021 --
Starship surge: SpaceX, July 2021 --
Solar surge: summer 2021 --
Nights out: summer, 2021 --
Inspiration4: SpaceX, September 2021 --
Raptor shake-up: SpaceX, 2021 --
Optimus is born: Tesla, August 2021 --
Vision only: Tesla, January 2021 --
Father of the year: 2021 --
Active investor: Twitter, January-April 2022 --
"I made an offer": Twitter, April 2022 --
Hot and cold: Twitter, April-June 2022 --
Father's day: June 2022 --
Starbase shake-up: SpaceX, 2022 --
Optimus Prime: Tesla, 2021-2022 --
Uncertainty: Twitter, July-September 2022 --
Optimus unveiled: Tesla, September 2022 --
"Let that sink in": Twitter, October 26-27, 2022 --
The takeover: Twitter, Thursday, October 27, 2022 --
The three musketeers: Twitter, October 26-30, 2022 --
Content moderation: Twitter, October 27-30, 2022 --
Halloween: Twitter, October 2022 --
Blue checks: Twitter, November 2-10, 2022 --
All in: Twitter, November 10-18, 2022 --
Hardcore: Twitter, November 18-30, 2022 --
Miracles: Neuralink, November 2022 --
The Twitter files: Twitter, December 2022 --
Rabbit holes: Twitter, December 2022 --
Christmas capers: December 2022 --
AI for cars: Tesla, 2022-2023 --
AI for humans: X.AI, 2023 --
The starship launch: SpaceX, April 2023.