Kant: Elon Musk repeatedly built companies that shouldn't have existed
Eiso Kant · Eiso Kant, CTO @Poolside: Raising $600M To Compete in the Race for AGI | E1211 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Oct 7, 2024 · at 49:55
Eiso Kant is the CTO and co-founder of Poolside, reflecting on founder psychological stamina and persistence in frontier technology.
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“I think Elon is one of the most impressive examples of someone who has done this For such a prolonged amount of time, at moments in time when the entire world, you know, refused to align around his view, I think there's companies in the world that get built because they were at the right moment at the right time, and there's companies in the world that get built that shouldn't have the right to exist, and everything is against them, and I think Elon has done that Not once. He's done it multiple times.”
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