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Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
- ▶ 37:10 Kaz Nejatian Like, I mean, Elon famously sleeps at the factory, and people think it's like a meme. 3 times in the scene
Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 19:58 Shane Parrish They're trained on all the data from the internet, including like, you know, Elon has the opposite approach where he's like, we're going to take all the data
- ▶ 42:02 Bill Gurley Um, the, the, the Tesla case is a great example that, that package, that type of package that they did for Elon, I've said this, you know, publicly, I would agree to that type of package for every company I've ever worked with, and most…
You Don’t Need To Innovate To Be Successful | FarmVille Creator
- ▶ 31:51 Mark Pincus I think that the future state of all this is that we all get to live in some way like Elon.
- ▶ 58:30 Mark Pincus Elon would have just said, fine, sue me. 2 times in the scene
Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions | Winston Weinberg
- ▶ 34:39 Winston Weinberg I think Elon has tweeted something about this, too, where it's like, the first 50 times you fail, it, like, really sucks.
Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman
- ▶ 5:48 Greg Brockman And so Elon, Sam, Ilya, and I all agreed.
Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
- ▶ 1:35:54 Shane Parrish I remember Elon in interviews said something that made a ton of sense to me.
- ▶ 1:52:54 Joe Liemandt This is, you know, this is sort of back to your Elon example.
The Near Death Experience of RobinHood | Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder
- ▶ 8:21 Vlad Tenev but yeah, at that time, Mark Zuckerberg called me, and Elon Musk called me, Mark Benioff called me, and, 2 times in the scene
The $2 Trillion Mind | Nicolai Tangen
- ▶ 38:25 Shane Parrish What was the thinking behind voting against Elon's pay package?
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
- ▶ 9:08 Morgan Housel And the people who are monstrously successful, that Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Marks, 3 times in the scene
How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland
- ▶ 1:10:38 Rory Sutherland Do you, do you have a sticker on it that says, I bought this before Elon went mad, or anything like that, so that Canadians don't key your car? 4 times in the scene
How To Build A Cult | Lulu Cheng Meservey
- ▶ 27:10 Lulu Cheng Meservey So yeah, going to Mars sounds super wacky, but people who have been around Elon, and I've heard him say it over and over, and people who know him and trust him believe that 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:40 Shane Parrish Uh, when, you know, when I post, like, a quote in the newsletter from somebody they might not like, uh, nobody's more controversial than Elon. 5 times in the scene
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
- ▶ 1:00:08 Shane Parrish Elon seems to be going all in on AI.
- ▶ 1:09:56 Benedict Evans Elon Musk
Jimmy Pattison: Building a $16B Empire Without Connections, Capital, or Credentials [Outliers]
- ▶ 16:03 Shane Parrish Elon Musk does the same thing.
Anna Wintour: Vogue [Outliers]
- ▶ 8:15 Shane Parrish Sounds a lot like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk.
- ▶ 11:05 Shane Parrish Elon sleeps on the floor of the factory.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
- ▶ 37:21 Elad Gil Um, but I think for three of the four, and then there's x.ai, which, you know, is Elon Musk's just sort of ability to execute in such an insane way that's really driving it.
- ▶ 1:02:06 Elad Gil Um, examples of that, I mean, obviously Elon Musk is now that, right, in terms of- 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:11 Elad Gil And so, that's a great example of a very, very strong arc over time, or Elon Musk is a very strong arc over time, right?
- ▶ 1:20:18 Elad Gil So I think the reality is, if you look at what Musk did at Twitter,
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
- ▶ 1:25:10 Garry Tan Or, I guess, the tricky thing is, like, Elon came in and quickly asked, like, 80 or 90% of the people, and it turns out you didn't need 80 or 90% of the people, so.
- ▶ 1:43:26 Garry Tan Um, I guess the funniest thing is, uh, Microsoft, I think, is defining it when it gets its hundred billion dollars back, but, uh, I, you know, am sort of skeptical of that because, uh, you know, I think basically only Elon Musk then would,…
James Dyson: Against the Odds [Outliers]
- ▶ 44:40 Shane Parrish Elon Musk hit this wall with Tesla.
Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
- ▶ 36:32 Josh Wolfe Let me say, I think Elon is amazing at certain things. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:02 Josh Wolfe Which is interesting, because the people that we celebrate the most, if you think about Steve Jobs, and even Elon, like,
- ▶ 1:18:51 Josh Wolfe So, um, that's another thing where I'm really rooting for Elon in the continued success of, of X, because I'll continue to pay a lot of money for it, and I pay more money for it, but I find it super valuable, and, and it's a real-time… 2 times in the scene
Best of 2024: The Blueprint for a Transformative New Year
- ▶ 5:02 Morgan Housel Elon Musk couldn't control it, but it has a massive income, a massive impact on where you're gonna go in life.
Ryan Holiday: How to Win the War with Yourself
- ▶ 3:09 Ryan Holiday So take Elon Musk, right? 10 times in the scene
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 1:45:20 John Mackey You know, I don't know if you've read, have you read Elon Musk's biography by Walter Isaacson yet? 12 times in the scene
Brian Halligan: Building HubSpot into a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 29:08 Brian Halligan Are Jensen at Nvidia and Elon at SpaceX and that, that, that, that, that, that, that.
Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home
- ▶ 2:09:07 Brent Beshore Well, now you can't be a CEO of three companies, I guess, unless you're Elon Musk 2 times in the scene
Morgan Housel: Get Rich, Stay Rich
- ▶ 7:55 Morgan Housel Elon Musk couldn't control it, but it has a massive income, a massive impact on where you're going to go in life.
- ▶ 42:05 Morgan Housel And there's other people, you know, obviously Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are independent, but I would, I would venture that more than half of Elon Musk's day is doing things that he doesn't want to do. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:09 Shane Parrish Streams were like Bezos and Musk and that, but the, the social debt, like almost like you go to a wedding and you have to give more because you have more.
Abigail Shrier: Why the Kids Aren’t Alright
- ▶ 58:15 Shane Parrish Like you don't see Elon Musk jumping on my YouTube video saying, you know, this guy's a nitwit.
Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone
- ▶ 38:10 Blake Eastman And it's like, whoa, like Elon Musk could violate all the norms he wants.
- ▶ 1:36:30 Shane Parrish That's how Elon saved Tesla effectively. 2 times in the scene
Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 2): Failure and Success
- ▶ 30:33 Dr. Gio Valiante Elon Musk is a perfect example of that. 4 times in the scene
Neil Pasricha: Simple Rules for Happiness
- ▶ 1:09:12 Neil Pasricha Neil Patrick is landing on the Elon Musk side of things.
Kenneth Stanley: Set The Right Objectives
- ▶ 33:49 Shane Parrish Elon Musk saying something like crazy or what seems like crazy, which is like, we're going to go to Mars in the next eight years, which is this objective. 4 times in the scene
Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
- ▶ 9:38 Kunal Shah Uh, uh, it's not surprising if one would say that, hey, Elon, uh, the way you are, were you mocked a lot when you were younger because you were not a normal guy, and, and one would even say that you looked like a guy on the spectrum, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:41 Kunal Shah I don't feel envious with Elon Musk. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:34:36 Kunal Shah And I think doing that early hack in kids just makes them very interested in saying that why is Elon Musk rich?
- ▶ 1:49:44 Kunal Shah And, and if Elon really cracks a way to get solar to come to ourself, the world's wealth will go disproportionately as well, because guess what?
- ▶ 2:01:37 Kunal Shah And, and I think the only good use of reading a autobiography or biography is to be able to answer this question that would Elon do this? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:13:49 Kunal Shah And therefore, sometimes I wonder, like, Elon is going to probably have, I don't know, five, five hundred billion dollar plus companies, maybe six.
Laurie Santos: The Pursuit of Happiness
- ▶ 1:33:35 Laurie Santos You know, if you're earning, if you're earning minimum wage, your time to, you know, like, like, if I don't go to work for an hour, you know, I don't get my, you know, ideally, 20 bucks, but, you know, in some places, 15 bucks, whatever,… 2 times in the scene
Justin Su'a: Peak Mental Performance
- ▶ 1:00:53 Justin Su'a Maybe Elon Musk has it.
#129 Marc Andreessen: Interview with an Icon
- ▶ 1:08:28 Shane Parrish You had this little mental model of Elon Musk on your shoulder. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:19 Marc Andreessen It's like, okay, if I were explaining this to Peter or to Elon or whatever, like, would they be like, 2 times in the scene
#128 Ryan Holiday: A Stoic Life
- ▶ 21:40 Ryan Holiday Just like, you know, you look at, I don't know, someone in the contemporary world, like Elon Musk. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:20 Ryan Holiday And it's also, I think it's, it's why it can be adaptive early on is like, okay, look, um, if Elon Musk was balanced, um, he probably would have been happy and satisfied with PayPal. 3 times in the scene
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 13:44 Walter Isaacson I see that in Elon Musk now, compared to some other billionaires. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:16 Walter Isaacson That's still a debate going on today, whether it's Elon Musk or Bill Gates or many other people.
#111 Joel Greenblatt: Investing Made Simple
- ▶ 47:18 Joel Greenblatt I think I like I'm watching Elon Musk even, you know, who's been obviously incredibly successful.
#108 Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics
- ▶ 33:50 Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen And, you know, I understand Elon Musk and many others, they're talking about that other world.
- ▶ 1:14:11 Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen Uh, you know, and frankly, um, you know, Elon tells the story that he was on the final money, right?
- ▶ 1:20:13 Shane Parrish Versus opening that information up to the world so that the next Elon or the next Jeff Bezos gets a head start 2 times in the scene
#101 Jane McGonigal: The Psychology of Gaming
- ▶ 41:03 Jane McGonigal You know, Elon Musk is working on it.
#100 Matt Mullenweg: Collaboration Is Key
- ▶ 23:05 Matt Mullenweg It's kind of our, our version of going to Mars for Elon Musk.
#99 Kris Cordle: Releasing the Ego
- ▶ 29:13 Chris Cordell There's like the dreamers, the world builders, like the Elon Musk, and then there's the problem solvers.
#94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
- ▶ 24:59 Chamath Palihapitiya The shorts were going to win and drive the company into the ground, but we were really sure we wanted to bet on Elon.
- ▶ 1:00:29 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, Elon Musk. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:17:21 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, it can't just be Elon's task. 3 times in the scene
#93 Matt Holland: Zero Day
- ▶ 1:24:30 Shane Parrish Like, my kids call you Uncle Matt, but they also, uh, whenever Elon Musk comes out, they say, we know somebody who's gonna do more than Elon, and we're sort of like, and they're pointing to you, so we're looking forward to seeing how this… 2 times in the scene
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 30:53 Bethany McLean That's certainly true of Elon Musk. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:15 Bethany McLean So, because the stock has done so well, that proves that Elon Musk is a genius and that our belief is, is right.
- ▶ 44:54 Bethany McLean I mean, you could argue that I, I did a very tough piece on Elon Musk earlier this fall, but I, I don't think even if 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:38 Shane Parrish There was a recent article, um, I think it was actually about Elon, it was a journalist who sort of wrote about him, and there was an issue of sourcing, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:48 Bethany McLean Or even on this Elon Musk piece I did, going to Buffalo and meeting employees who worked at the Solar City factory there, and hearing their, their stories.
#82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
- ▶ 8:59 Bill Ackman Look at Elon Musk. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:05 Bill Ackman But, you know, I admire people like Elon Musk. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:04 Shane Parrish I want to come back to the Twitter comment about, uh, Elon and you, you're both, I don't think it's a surprise.
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 16:06 Jason Calacanis Of Elon Musk and Travis from Uber.
- ▶ 23:25 Jason Calacanis You know, you ask Elon Musk what he's working on, and it's like, oh, I'm on Tesla Tuesday, Wednesday, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:00 Jason Calacanis Hand that to somebody like Elon Musk, and they will give you a 300,000 dollar a year job or 250,000 dollar a year job.
#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future
- ▶ 29:46 Mike Maples Jr. Elon Musk, right, will sometimes say, well, this car's gonna be ready before it's ready.
- ▶ 1:03:37 Mike Maples Jr. Elon Musk and Steve Jobs are kind of at the radical extreme awesomeness of it.
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 8:03 Daniel Gross Giving them positive feedback and catalyzing this loop that ends up creating everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Elon Musk to, you know, Ramanujan or Albert Einstein.
- ▶ 8:25 Shane Parrish What are the other sort of like catalyzing moments that you've discovered looking at some of these people other than like Arnold Schwarzenegger, maybe Elon Musk, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:11 Daniel Gross Uh, and, and well, one, you know, one thing led to the next, and, and, you know, suddenly I started, uh, my second company, um, even though I, I always kind of told myself that I, I wouldn't, um, because, you know, starting companies is…
#23 Ray Dalio: Life Lessons from a Self-Made Billionaire
#20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation
- ▶ 46:27 unnamed speaker We should offer Elon Musk testing facility to its pipeline. 2 times in the scene
#5 Chris Dixon: The State of Venture Capital
- ▶ 53:19 Chris Dixon Oh, I just read the Elon Musk book, which I thought was good. 2 times in the scene