At first glance, Musk and Genghis Khan couldn’t be more different. One was a warlord who united the Mongol tribes through brutal conquest, while the other builds electric cars, sends rockets to space, and manipulates stock markets with a tweet. But dig a little deeper, and the parallels are uncanny.
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