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Ashlee Vance

Founder & Host, Core Memory · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ashlee Vance is a veteran technology journalist and author of the biographies Elon Musk and When the Heavens Went on Sale. A former writer for Bloomberg Businessweek and The New York Times, he founded and hosts the frontier tech media company Core Memory.

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Opinion
SpaceX and Rocket Lab are the only launch companies succeeding, says Vance
“There's like space X and rocket lab and they're the only two have figured it out and they figured it out on a scale that like nobody else has even got close to yet.”
Ashlee Vance Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 14:18 Ashlee Vance on the Future of Media, Current Inspiration, and Upcoming Books.
Insight
Traditional media subtly shapes writers' voices without them realizing, says Vance
“As you get into more traditional media, there's a lot of fantastic stuff that comes with it and you learn a lot, but you don't, I, you don't fully kind of realize how your voice is getting shaped by the platform until, until I started this”
Ashlee Vance Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 10:32 Ashlee Vance on the Future of Media, Current Inspiration, and Upcoming Books.
Disclosure
Ashlee Vance is writing a book on OpenAI; movie rights sold
“I'm doing a book on open AI and AI more broadly. And I've been working on that for like 18 months and penguin random house is going to publish that and sold a movie rights to it already.”
Ashlee Vance Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 12:12 Ashlee Vance on the Future of Media, Current Inspiration, and Upcoming Books.
Opinion
Figure made robotic progress far beyond expectations, says Vance
“When I went to figure They had made so much progress in 18 months to two years, way beyond what I would have thought.”
Ashlee Vance Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 16:14 Ashlee Vance on the Future of Media, Current Inspiration, and Upcoming Books.
Opinion
Tesla Optimus made incredible progress after initial smoke and mirrors, says Vance
“Optimus, you know, to be honest, like when I first saw Optimus, I thought it was like very heavy on the smoke and mirrors and like they've made incredible progress as well.”
Ashlee Vance Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 16:22 Ashlee Vance on the Future of Media, Current Inspiration, and Upcoming Books.
Disclosure
Ashlee Vance left Bloomberg due to lack of speed and flexibility
“I just kind of like reached a point where couldn't really move fast enough for all the different things that I wanted to do within the confines of Bloomberg. I felt like there was Kind of lacking some flexibility, a whole bunch of things.”
Ashlee Vance Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 5:51 Ashlee Vance on the Future of Media, Current Inspiration, and Upcoming Books.
Disclosure
Vance's media company Core Memory is developing scripted and unscripted movies
“Tomorrow we'll be launching the first episode of our kind of proper TV show that I'm doing hosting and writing and all that. And then we got movies in the works scripted, unscripted, all kinds of stuff.”
Ashlee Vance Mar 14, 2025 ▶ 0:56 Ashlee Vance on the Future of Media, Current Inspiration, and Upcoming Books.

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Ashlee Vance on the Future of Media, Current Inspiration, and Upcoming Books. Mar 14, 2025 9m
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