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Inside Bending Spoons: Finding Talent, Leveraging AI & Driving Operational Excellence | Luca Ferrari
- ▶ 1:03:01 David Senra Have you paid attention to how Elon talks about this at all? 8 times in the scene
Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power
- ▶ 33:57 David Senra Yeah, when we talk, you have a lot of like, ah, I did this episode on Elon, how Elon works. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:14 David Senra I mean, obviously you mentioned Elon a few times. 3 times in the scene
Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing
- ▶ 59:59 David Senra Elon approved the first, personally approved the first 3000 hires of SpaceX.
Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- ▶ 9:40 Travis Kalanick I'd say the two that you would come up with in our area, in our neck of the woods, there are others, but like in our neck of the woods, you're like, okay, Elon definitely did, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:09 Travis Kalanick You go like, look at, you know, you can look at Tesla and all the things Elon's doing. 4 times in the scene
The Comms Strategist Behind Anduril, Shopify & Cognition | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 1:02:09 David Senra And part of it is because they're not, it's impossible to say that either of them or any of the good communicators, even Elon or anybody else like that, is like speaking in template form.
Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
- ▶ 29:56 Micky Malka They've been seeing that we have spun an era of, of Elon's, of innovation, of Edison people mindsets that it's allowing the mind to really flow.
The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
- ▶ 6:56 Eric Glyman Like I, I think of, of Elon's algorithm.
- ▶ 20:13 David Senra And on the other end, you have people like Elon who just wants to like, he says, I want fresh blood. 2 times in the scene
The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
- ▶ 5:13 David Senra One, you have like the Larry Ellison and Elon Musk 2 times in the scene
The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 2:47 Gustav Söderström Elon does his thing, you know, also produces trillion dollar companies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:16 David Senra And you take Elon Musk, who, again, Larry mentored. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:18 Gustav Söderström There are some downsides to tenure, which is opposite of Elon's.
Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
- ▶ 20:41 David Senra I've read every single biography of Elon.
- ▶ 1:08:10 David Senra Elon Musk. 4 times in the scene
The Man Behind Grand Theft Auto 6: Strauss Zelnick
- ▶ 1:29:01 Strauss Zelnick Um, but Elon Musk's approach to business is diametrically different than mine. 5 times in the scene
Dana White: The Man Behind the UFC
- ▶ 43:38 David Senra Uh, it reminds me of, you mentioned the Ellisons earlier, and just like how aggressive they are, and obviously well capitalized, and I saw this clip recently on X, where Larry Ellison was talking, Larry Ellison mentored Elon Musk, so like… 3 times in the scene
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 50:01 David Senra I just did this episode on Elon, and he said the same thing.
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 25:04 David Senra How do you reconcile, though, because, like, there's a lot of people that are famous about this, like, uh, uh, Elon.
- ▶ 31:21 David Senra His person he mentors, if you ask Elon who he admires, he says, Larry Ellison, he's like, I want fresh blood, I think is the term over and over again.
- ▶ 1:33:12 David Senra So, you know, so like, like Elon's famous for like, what is the, the bottleneck here? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:44:01 David Senra Like the whole point, like, Elon's the richest person on the planet.
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 0:03 David Senra All right, so I have an advanced copy of your book, The Book of Elon, Elon Musk's most useful ideas in his own words. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:19 David Senra Yeah, I think it's important to point out the context in which he started like SpaceX and Tesla. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:41 unnamed speaker I think it's so funny that the most productive person on earth does zero, zero, zero of the like meditation, journaling, morning routine. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:57 David Senra It's, he calls this, uh, these memes that spread through Elon's companies, and he, at the end of the essay, he has these five memes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:35 David Senra I know he's mission oriented. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:13 David Senra He talks a lot in the book, or you profiled him in the book, about fear. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:17 David Senra Explain some of the disadvantages, because a lot of people think that he, like, came, well, he was, like, privileged, is something you'll hear, like, a lot of his critics say. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:35 David Senra Why did you apply that to Elon? 19 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:53 David Senra He's like, we can weld stainless steel in a tent. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:28 David Senra You actually want to make mistakes, because that's the way you learn, but you want to make them small, and you don't want to make the same mistake over and over again, which again, is like an echo of what you were just saying about Elon. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:26 unnamed speaker Make your requirements less dumb is, is like specifically how he says it a lot. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:53 unnamed speaker Like, I think when he started, there were over 10,000 parts, and that has come down steadily as these combined parts, because every time two things need to be attached, not only are there two things that need to be attached, but maybe they… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:40 unnamed speaker I mean, he, this is why automate is the last step of the algorithm. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:52 David Senra I did this episode of Founders, uh, uh, called How Elon Works. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:43 unnamed speaker He's huge on direct individual accountability. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:58 David Senra This is Elon's description of step four from the book, which I love. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:10 David Senra I've done 10 episodes on this guy. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:59 David Senra And what's fascinating about Elon is like, he just went and like bucked the trend of the American automobile industry at that time, which was like subcontractor, subcontractor, subcontractor, he talks about this open over again, like… 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:28 David Senra I think people should heavily invest and maybe practice on their ability to, like, distill ideas and communicate, like, something complex in a simple way, and I think Elon's, you know, maybe arguably one of the best people in the world at… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:27 David Senra I want to go to some more ideas directly from Elon. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:51 David Senra He continues, a factory moving twice the speed as another factory is basically equivalent to two factors. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:30 David Senra This is, there's a story in, ah, the Ashley Vance book where they're like, I don't get Elon. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:19 David Senra So going back, let's extend this idea of like how Elon thinks about money says Tesla is getting to the point where every high quality minute of thinking has a million dollar impact. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:18 David Senra He goes on a few pages later. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:08 David Senra So we've been talking about Elon for a few months, and you, you brought it up, I think, already in this conversation. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:25:12 unnamed speaker The closest analog for Elon is, is, are those names? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:28:45 David Senra This is Elon. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36:33 unnamed speaker I think like some people are Jason Fried and some people are Elon Musk.
- ▶ 1:40:41 unnamed speaker I think Elon is underrated in his design sense, actually. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:41:48 David Senra There's a, uh, a line in Sam Walton's autobiography, which I thought was very interesting, because we're talking about, like, you know, Elon has not only started the companies, but now these companies are at scale. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:48:33 David Senra Elon has a 35 year career as an entrepreneur so far, something around that way. 4 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- ▶ 13:02 Marc Andreessen The classic archetype for bourgeois capitalism was Henry Ford, you know, in the 19 twenties, and today it's Elon Musk, right? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:54 Marc Andreessen I mean, when you get an Elon Musk and Steve Jobs, when you get these kind of archetypal examples of it, it's a lot easier to, you know, to, to, you know, to sell it.
- ▶ 49:19 Marc Andreessen So, so, so Jim, I don't even remember what's in the Lewis book, but like Jim's like a true, Jim's like a true, he's like an Elon, he's like a true Elon, Steve Jobs level guy.
- ▶ 54:56 Marc Andreessen Yeah, and this, again, this is like, I don't know, Zuckerberg, or Sergey Brin, or Elon, or whatever decides to start a company, like that was his candle power wattage in the community at that time.
- ▶ 1:20:46 Marc Andreessen So, the, the Henry Ford, Elon Musk type. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:18 Marc Andreessen Yeah, this is the thing, and I, you know, Elon threads this incredibly well, just incredibly well, as does Zuckerberg.
- ▶ 1:31:45 David Senra You just said something, I think you said you believe Elon is inventing a new way to manage. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:24 Marc Andreessen Like, what would be better as an engineer than being able to design a rocket engine with Elon Musk as your engineering partner, right? 19 times in the scene
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 7:22 David Senra Yeah, the reason I asked is because there's a great story in one of the biographies of Elon when you just mentioned this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:47 Brian Armstrong You go back and look at what, you know, Peter Thiel and Elon, Max Levchin, all these guys were doing, David Sachs, they actually had many similar ideas to Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:05 Brian Armstrong Yeah, like, that's a great, um, actually, Elon frames what is the limiting factor at any given time, and that, go dive deep on that.
Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
- ▶ 9:22 Jimmy Iovine Just being humble enough to say that, and not thinking that because you are one success that you're, you know, the Beatles, or Elon Musk, or Steve Jobs, or whatever, you know, is that it's not about you.
- ▶ 1:12:52 David Senra That is why elite founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have all said publicly that they use Eight Sleep.
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 1:18:41 David Senra That is why elite founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have all said publicly that they use Eight Sleep.
John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- ▶ 49:33 John Mackey They're obsessed with some billionaires because Bernie Sanders thinks that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk somehow stole the money from the people. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:03 David Senra Elon, one of the greatest evangelists that we've ever seen.
- ▶ 1:10:58 John Mackey Um, I mean, Rockefeller is the, am I still, and maybe Elon Musk and Steve Jobs can challenge him, but, but he's probably the greatest entrepreneur that ever lived, and, and I would argue he's probably done more, even though he's hated as… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:58 David Senra That is why elite founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have all said publicly that they use eight sleep.
My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum | David Senra
- ▶ 9:22 Patrick O'Shaughnessy I don't want to put someone on Mars like Elon Miter.
- ▶ 1:20:29 David Senra That is why elite founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have said publicly that they use eight sleep.
- ▶ 1:43:46 David Senra I just did this episode, uh, called How Elon Works, which is, I think, the most downloaded episode of Founders 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:54:18 Patrick O'Shaughnessy The ability to do something like that goes up, and that is every bit as successful in my mind and in my book as Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or, you know, pick the, the people that we all worship.
CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
- ▶ 1:21:11 David Senra That is why elite founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have all said publicly that they use Eight Sleep.
How Todd Graves Built Raising Cane's
- ▶ 33:22 David Senra I just did this episode on Elon Musk, and he has a great mantra.
- ▶ 1:13:24 David Senra I just did this episode on Elon Musk. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:42:28 David Senra Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, he only ever joined two boards, and he was best friend of Steve Jobs, he was on Apple's board, he's good friends with Elon, Elon Consistent Inventor, he's on Tesla's board, and he's like, oh, and he was… 2 times in the scene
How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
- ▶ 3:01 David Senra Like, one of the, I think, most important lessons is, like, problems that, there's a line from Henry Kaiser, who was, you know, in his day, was as famous as, like, say, like an Elon is today, or you're becoming,
- ▶ 51:26 David Senra There's gonna be young entrepreneurs out there that are like, I'm not like Elon, or I'm not like Steve, or I'm not like all these people, so therefore I can't be an entrepreneur.
- ▶ 1:07:59 David Senra That is why elite founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have all said publicly that they use Eight Sleep.
Michael Dell, Dell Technologies | David Senra
- ▶ 8:32 David Senra It's like, figure out what the, like, actual cost of the components are, and then go look up, and it sounds like what Elon did with rockets. 2 times in the scene
Daniel Ek, Spotify | David Senra
- ▶ 21:56 Daniel Ek Um, entrepreneurs that most of us sort of look up to, um, inhale, whether it's the Steve Jobses or Elon Musks, et cetera.
- ▶ 23:29 David Senra You just have to be like Elon.
- ▶ 42:50 Daniel Ek Certainly of their time, the basis is the, the, the Steve Jobs, the, the Elon Musk's biographies and all that kind of stuff. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:24 Daniel Ek But if it's not truly innate to you and your personality, I promise you it will not have the same impact as when Elon does things.
- ▶ 1:27:23 David Senra There's this guy named Henry Kaiser who was as famous in his day as maybe like an Elon is today, and he built a hundred companies.
- ▶ 1:32:03 David Senra That is why elite founders like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have all said publicly that they use Eight Sleep.