Elon Musk recruited Tim Urban directly for deep dives on his companies
Shaan Puri · The Wild Story of Mike Lynch’s Rise From Janitor to Tech Billionaire · Oct 10, 2024 · at 39:50
Shaan Puri discusses meeting Tim Urban (creator of Wait But Why) and explains how Elon Musk initiated contact with Urban to cover Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and AI.
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“Elon basically says, I would love for you to write. I, he's like a bunch of people want to interview me. You know, they want me on 60 minutes. They want me on this. They want me on that. But I actually want you to write about what we're doing with AI, with Neuralink, with Tesla. With SpaceX, like, all of these things. I would love, and you could write whatever you want. I'm not saying write something positive, but I like your writing. I'd like you to write. So then he wrote these series with Elon, basically. He wrote a Neuralink series. He wrote, like, an AI series. He wrote, like, all these things.”
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