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The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 39:07 David Senra And so then Elon calls Demis and says, how about if Tesla acquires you? 2 times in the scene
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 10:22 David Senra He says, here's an example from early in building Tesla.
- ▶ 13:49 David Senra Diving into SpaceX and Tesla, I had to learn how to make hardware.
- ▶ 22:21 David Senra I sometimes wonder if Nikola Tesla applied to Tesla, would we have even given him an interview?
- ▶ 27:11 David Senra He says, I often tell the Tesla team, it's okay to scrap equipment or money.
- ▶ 29:27 David Senra And so he gives this example of Tesla in the model three buildup.
- ▶ 29:27 David Senra And so he gives this example of Tesla in the model three buildup.
- ▶ 30:55 David Senra Many things at Tesla were automated, accelerated, simplified, and then deleted. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:12 David Senra Tesla is getting to the point where every high quality minute of thinking has a million dollar impact. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:36 David Senra And he talks about some of the innovations at Tesla.
- ▶ 40:13 David Senra He says we made so many mistakes in the beginning of Tesla. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:16 David Senra And there's just huge chunks of interesting tidbits from the early Tesla, the early history of Tesla, I should say. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:41 David Senra We messed up almost every aspect of the Model Three production line. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:59 David Senra There's a lot of vertical integration at Tesla.
- ▶ 49:56 David Senra And then he has two sentences here that I think is related about to the work that he did at SpaceX for sure, and also Tesla, but specifically SpaceX.
How SpaceX Works
- ▶ 3:05 David Senra By September 2008, SpaceX had funds for exactly one more attempt, and Tesla was weeks away from bankruptcy.
- ▶ 27:20 David Senra Andre Carpathie who worked for Elon at Tesla notes that Elon spends about 50% of his time talking directly to engineers, not to VP summarizing engineering work.
The Genius of Christian von Koenigsegg
- ▶ 21:29 David Senra He actually bought Tesla shares at IPO.
How Elon Works
- ▶ 6:17 David Senra More than 20 years later, when he had a bunch of cash from selling Tesla stock, he put it into Twitter.
- ▶ 8:39 David Senra It was a philosophy that he would carry through to Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter.
- ▶ 23:45 David Senra And then at the very beginning of Tesla, we see the exact same idea used over and over again.
- ▶ 26:59 David Senra So they're building the very first Tesla roadster. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:55 David Senra So they're trying to build a roadster. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:04 David Senra When he's 37 years old, and both SpaceX and Tesla are about to die, he is now with, I think, his second wife, Tallulah Riley, and this is what she describes. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:22 David Senra So an early example is if you saw one of the early model S sedans that Tesla makes, the head designer at Tesla came up with an idea where it's like, okay, the door handles, we're going to keep them flush to the car. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:22 David Senra So an early example is if you saw one of the early model S sedans that Tesla makes, the head designer at Tesla came up with an idea where it's like, okay, the door handles, we're going to keep them flush to the car. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:57 David Senra He said, SpaceX and Tesla were difficult individually. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:56 David Senra They have to build 5000 model threes per week or they die. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:40 David Senra Elon had one primary focus, ramping up production so that Tesla was churning out 5000 Model threes per week. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:02 David Senra In the Tesla factory, I mistakenly spent a lot of time accelerating processes that I later realized should have been deleted. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:43 David Senra Elon was playing with a toy version of the Model S.
- ▶ 1:16:08 David Senra But what he says is when Elon asked him how many solar roofs he installed, Tony explained he was an engineer and had not actually been doing, had not actually been on the roof, doing the installation. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:24 David Senra I was watching an interview in 2012 that he did with this guy named Kevin Rose, and it's on the factory floor at Tesla.
- ▶ 1:21:29 David Senra I think they were, they had like barely producing the Model S time.
- ▶ 1:28:16 David Senra Now Tesla's building the optimist robots.
- ▶ 1:28:16 David Senra Now Tesla's building the optimist robots.
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…
Elon Musk and The Early Days of SpaceX
- ▶ 52:29 David Senra He'd invested everything in SpaceX and Tesla beyond money. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:15 David Senra His rocket company had produced a litany of failures and Tesla was equally cash strapped and only just beginning to sell its first product, the roadster.
- ▶ 55:38 David Senra That fall, friends urged Elon to save SpaceX or Tesla, warning that he could not support both. 2 times in the scene
How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland
- ▶ 7:35 David Senra Journalists was interviewing him, trying to get behind, like, why are you doing Tesla?
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 11:43 David Senra Cause it's an early, it takes place on like the Tesla, the factory floor of Tesla back when I think they only had one model in production.
- ▶ 11:49 David Senra It was like the early, uh, model S was in production.