Founders

What I learned from reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance. ---Subscribe to listen to Founders Premium — Subscribers can listen to Ask Me Anything (AMA) episodes and every bonus episode. ---I don't want to be the person who ever has to compete with Elon (0:47)Musk expects you to keep up (2:45)Short of building an actual money-crushing machine, Musk could not have picked a faster way to destroy his fortune. He became a one-man, ultra-risk-taking venture capital shop (4:41)Revisit old ideas (5:22)It was not unusual for him to read ten hours a day (7:49)His approach to dating mirrors his approach to work (9:32)Humans are deeply mimetic (10:59)Thinking from first principles (14:37)What it is like to work with Elon Musk (17:40)He would place this urgency that he expected the revenue in ten years to be ten million dollars a day and that every day we were slower to achieve our goals was a day of missing out on that money (19:28)What he went through in 2008 would have b