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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Elon Musk comes up
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 7:19 David Senra I, I just read this book of Elon that my friend Eric Jorgensen wrote. 2 times in the scene
Phil Knight: Founder of Nike
- ▶ 27:32 David Senra And then I want to tell you about Vanta and how Vanta is related to something that Elon repeats over and over again. 4 times in the scene
How Arnold Schwarzenegger Won
- ▶ 5:35 David Senra And I was thinking of the fact that Elon founded that company when he was just 30 years old. 2 times in the scene
The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 35:01 David Senra Elon Musk is in all over this book. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:19 David Senra And so Elon and others see what's going on. 5 times in the scene
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra My friend Eric Jorgensen has spent a few years and thousands and thousands of hours reading everything that Elon has written, reading everything that it has written about Elon, watching every single interview that Elon has ever given, and… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:51 David Senra So it starts out, Elon says, I don't mind if my legacy is accurate or inaccurate. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:56 David Senra And then he talks about the motivations behind starting his companies and he's giving advice to fellow entrepreneurs. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:53 David Senra A lot of this book goes into his work ethic, the fact that he thinks the things that he's working on are very important, so therefore he's willing to endure a lot of times of just pain and suffering. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:49 David Senra There's an entire section on how Elon thinks like a physicist, and he uses this to get to the truth. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:07 David Senra And so then Elon talks about the fact that he thinks of himself primarily as an engineer, and this is why engineering is magic and who wouldn't want to be a magician. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:24 David Senra I am the CEO of these companies because I feel I'm responsible for them, not because it's the best thing for the quality of my life. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:33 David Senra Another thing you'll hear Elon repeat over and over again is the importance of leading from the front line, front lines leadership. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:20 David Senra And then he gets back into this idea. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:13 David Senra And I love Elon's response here.
- ▶ 24:03 David Senra And then he goes back to the importance of finding the truth. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:07 David Senra Elon says that the only true currency is time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:18 David Senra And then Elon talks about designing an organization that allows for a lot of experiments. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:20 David Senra And then the book goes into what Elon repeats the most, which is the algorithm. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:41 David Senra When he talks about how he's operating on a day-to-day basis, it's related to speed. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:05 David Senra Elon is sharing these ideas. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:12 David Senra It starts with a question and answer from Elon. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:17 David Senra And then Elon talks about, even though you're moving fast, you still have to pay attention to every little detail.
- ▶ 46:04 David Senra I've been reading a lot about it lately and something I've just kept in mind is the fact that Elon started it, 24 years ago. 12 times in the scene
How SpaceX Works
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra A few years ago, I started working on a book called space X foundation, a historical account of space X's first decade told through firsthand sources, firsthand sources, like Elon's company updates, launch dispatches, internal memos. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:02 David Senra Elon putting in a hundred million dollars bought early runway, but Bezos poured much more into Blue Origin, and legacy primes
- ▶ 5:31 David Senra Before starting SpaceX, Elon wanted to get to Mars, but he didn't set out to build a rocket manufacturer. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:13 David Senra In a 2021 Starbase interview, Elon explained the goal with each Starship prototype. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:34 David Senra This is what Elon says about this. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:47 David Senra The variable starts with Elon. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:37 David Senra What Elon grafted onto it were Silicon Valley operating norms, flat hierarchy, engineer ownership, permission to walk out of unproductive meetings.
- ▶ 32:53 David Senra Elon gave it absolute focus, daily updates, memos to the company, resources redirected from elsewhere. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:22 David Senra The lesson isn't be like Elon. 3 times in the scene
How Rick Rubin Works
- ▶ 30:33 David Senra I remember hearing Elon Musk give this interview one time. 3 times in the scene
The Creative Genius of Rick Rubin
- ▶ 7:25 David Senra Jim Simons, the founder of Renaissance technologies and Elon Musk, and both of them, what they would do is when they needed time to think, they would find a quiet place, usually in the dark, and they would lay on their back flat.
The Genius of Christian von Koenigsegg
- ▶ 3:28 David Senra It reminds me a lot of Charlie Munger, reminds me of Elon Musk, reminds me of Steve Jobs.
- ▶ 21:28 David Senra He is a huge admirer of Elon. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:18 David Senra It sounds exactly like Elon.
How Jensen Works
- ▶ 21:00 David Senra Sounds like Elon.
- ▶ 34:15 David Senra I just did this episode, episode three 99 on how Elon works. 2 times in the scene
How Bill Gates Works
- ▶ 1:53 David Senra Very similar to the how Elon works
- ▶ 4:07 David Senra Elon Musk would say the same thing.
- ▶ 9:11 David Senra Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Elon Musk, Edwin Land, Bill Gates, they devour entire shelves.
The Stubborn Genius of James Dyson
- ▶ 28:32 David Senra And another thing that I love about Dyson that he shares with Steve Jobs, and really there's a lot of ideas that I've, that, you know, because I just did this episode on Elon Musk or how Elon works. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:53 David Senra Another idea that Dyson has in common with Elon, cut out middlemen and those who add no value.
- ▶ 1:04:04 David Senra Another idea he has in common with Elon, engineering and design are not separate.
How Elon Works
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra The biography of Elon Musk that was written by Walter Isaacson came out a few years ago. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:28 David Senra So I want to start when Elon's in college, right before he starts his first company, Zip Two. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:20 David Senra One of Elon's management tactics was to set an insane deadline and drive colleagues to meet it. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:58 David Senra There will be many times where people said, Elon read everything. 21 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:37 David Senra You're going to see this with Elon's companies over and over and over again, as we keep going through this book. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:12 David Senra Now back to a principle that Elon repeats a lot and laying out the factory, Elon followed his philosophy that the design engineering and manufacturing teams would all be clustered together. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:52 David Senra Elon focused on the importance of the mission rather than the potential of the business. 27 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:24 David Senra Half this book is Elon telling his company to speed up and to go faster and Vanta helps you do just
- ▶ 32:44 David Senra So then we get right into another one of Elon's principles that he'll use over and over again. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:26 David Senra Now, another thing that Elon's going to repeat, and he learns this through pain, do the, do the capacity to keep going through immense amounts of pain is if your design is hard to manufacture in large numbers, then your design is flawed.
- ▶ 47:33 David Senra Pairing the contents of his knapsack, Elon obsessed over reducing the weight of his rockets. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:05 David Senra This is Elon talking to his employees. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:15 David Senra And that brings us to what I think is the most important part of this entire book, Elon's algorithm. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:43 David Senra Elon was playing with a toy version of the Model S. 27 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:18 David Senra It's a biography of Elon. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:31 David Senra And then number three, the fact that Elon just frames his endeavors as having epoch-making significance. 16 times in the scene
The Life Story of Jerry Jones: Owner of The Dallas Cowboys
- ▶ 46:24 David Senra Jerry Jones' risk tolerance in the 1980, 1999 kind of reminds me of, of what Elon did after he sold PayPal when he, he cleared, I think, a hundred and eighty million after taxes when they sold PayPal, and he put a hundred into SpaceX, 70…
The Founder of IKEA: Ingvar Kamprad
- ▶ 14:28 David Senra This is going to sound a lot like Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX, which you and I talked about last week.
Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
- ▶ 0:08 David Senra The seeds for everything SpaceX has grown into today were planted during the early days of the Falcon One program by Elon Musk. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:35 David Senra He's not quite 30 years old. 23 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:50 David Senra Is that you realize that SpaceX was Elon's response to the stagnation of an existing industry. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:21 David Senra And this description of Jeremy Fry sounds a lot like Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX.
- ▶ 10:48 David Senra And so back to this book, I haven't read the book in almost four years, but what I remember, one of the things that jumped out and stayed in my mind from the first time I read it was the fact that Elon personally interviewed the first 3000… 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:12 David Senra And there's so many great lines about what an interview with Elon was like. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:45 David Senra And so another thing that the book is great at it, it gives you a lot of insight into how Elon was managing. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:56 David Senra And then if we go back to what else motivated these top tier talent to join SpaceX, there's a very talented German engineer that Elon was recruiting. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:16 David Senra Going back to the fact that Elon prioritized making decisions very rapidly, sped up the entire velocity of the company. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:06 David Senra And so another main theme that is repeated throughout the book is how important it was for Elon. 13 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:52 David Senra And let's go back to this reoccurring theme that Elon is capable of making decisions very fast. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:22 David Senra And so must, he's giving a talk to his employees after their first successful test of the rocket. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:47 David Senra What was interesting is on the flight back to United States, there's somebody on the plane with Elon and he was describing what Elon was doing. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:28 David Senra So she mentions to Elon in a meeting that you need to hire someone to sell the rocket full time. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:13 David Senra And so Shotwell is introducing Elon to potential customers. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:27 David Senra So Elon knows that if SpaceX is going to survive, NASA has to play an important role. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:50 David Senra So Shotwell and Elon take the call after hanging up, they called an impromptu staff meeting on the factory floor. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:21 David Senra And so he's pushing his team and himself to the absolute limits. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:05 David Senra When Elon starts SpaceX, he's like, okay, we got enough money. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:05 David Senra So it says after sinking six years and a hundred million dollars into SpaceX, Elon finally had a real rocket. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:40 David Senra And then the book ends with this interview that Elon's doing with the author in 2020. 8 times in the scene
I had dinner with John Mackey: Founder of Whole Foods
- ▶ 1:23:38 David Senra And he says the two smartest entrepreneurs that he's ever met are Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. 2 times in the scene
How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
- ▶ 7:27 David Senra And the way I would describe Walt Disney's view on Disneyland and what he was doing, I heard of this interview from Elon Musk a few years ago that, that was fascinating. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 11:35 David Senra Uh, it's with Elon Musk and he's being interviewed by this guy named Kevin Rose. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:51:46 David Senra In this book called Liftoff, which is about the first six years of SpaceX, this is what Elon Musk did. 7 times in the scene
The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- ▶ 1:33 David Senra People like Larry Ellison and Elon Musk come to mind.
How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer
- ▶ 23:58 David Senra I remember, uh, when I was reading about the early history of PayPal, I think Elon goes on vacation for the first time.
Napoleon's Maxims and Strategy
- ▶ 55:18 David Senra So it pulls things from like Aristotle Onassis, Henry Ford, Mozart, Bernard Arnault, David Ogilvie, Elon Musk, Billy Durant, the founder of General Motors, Larry Ellison, and of course, Alexander the Great.
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 1:22:24 David Senra He's the author of this book called The Founders, which is on the beginning of PayPal, and it talks about how competitive in the end of, it's really competitive at all times, but especially during the dot-com bubble, how competitive it was… 4 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 50:07 David Senra In this book called Liftoff, which is about the first six years of SpaceX, this is what Elon Musk did. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:51 David Senra This is, again, Elon Musk on hiring. 7 times in the scene
Les Schwab (Charlie Munger recommended this book)
- ▶ 1:26:40 David Senra In this book called Liftoff, which is about the first six years of SpaceX, this is what Elon Musk did. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:32:38 David Senra There are a ton of phonies out there, and not many who are the real deal, Musk said, of his approach to interviewing engineers. 5 times in the scene
Charlie Munger (the NEW Poor Charlie's Almanack)
- ▶ 1:45:34 David Senra In this book called Liftoff, which is about the first six years of SpaceX, this is what Elon Musk did. 6 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Ted Turner
- ▶ 1:15:03 David Senra In this book called Liftoff, which is about the first six years of SpaceX, this is what Elon Musk did. 8 times in the scene
Working with Jeff Bezos
- ▶ 56:58 David Senra Episode 38, space barons, which goes into the difference between the way Jeff is building his rocket company and Elon is building his
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