The Psychology of Elon Musk (Chapter 4 - The Rise)
Added 2024-09-16 11:00:07 +0000 UTCDr Kirk Honda and Humberto explore hypotheses regarding the psychology of Elon Musk.
00:00 The 90's
04:27 Starting a business
08:24 Co-founding Zip2
17:27 Becoming a millionaire
19:15 Millionaires in Seattle
27:11 Merging with PayPal
37:13 Near-death experience & getting fired
50:46 eBay buys PayPal
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September 16, 2024
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Comments
In SV tech (I'm in tech), you can kind-of go around it. Elon knows that he can talk to an investor or series of investors mostly 1:1 to get money, and then pay whoever he wants to work with him. On the other hand, our interviewing processes are like 10+ rounds long, so anyone who struggles with social skills is at an immediate disadvantage. The exhaustion from the toxicity of tech can sometimes seem much harder than starting your own company.
nahbananakingdom
2024-09-21 00:03:05 +0000 UTCLol didn't read the whole thing either but I think it claims some sort of fraud... Misrepresenting stuff to get money from investors, including his own background. Arguably what he's still doing to this day :-/
Nira Amit
2024-09-18 11:10:36 +0000 UTCI'm thinking about the "starting a company" section... I don't get how someone would conclude "I will start a new company" from "I'm too shy to network". Don't you need even stronger networking and sales skills to promote your company than to promote yourself?
Luna L
2024-09-18 06:29:59 +0000 UTCTheories in economics are inspired by physics actually. They are related.
GO!《cɛn
2024-09-16 15:26:15 +0000 UTCWhat a strange lawsuit ! Is that the main point of the lawsuit ? I can’t bring myself to read this document lol
juliana reider
2024-09-16 13:10:40 +0000 UTCPage 165 in this filing: https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/download.html?id=255379940&z=51348f41
Nira Amit
2024-09-16 11:46:34 +0000 UTCRushed to watch the video as soon as you posted 🤩 But seriously, can you fact-check the claim about a BSc in physics?? There's a deposition from 2009 where he explains that his degree was delayed until he completed missing courses in 1999, but the degrees that the lawyer presented him were Bachelor of science in Business, in English and Latin! Not physics! So just one degree, not two... That's actually part of the lawsuit - that in the mid 90s he kept saying he has a degree in computational physics, but he never did. I think he was raising money for his first company back then.
Nira Amit
2024-09-16 11:41:31 +0000 UTC
