30 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2018-07-09
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“The aerospace companies had little competition and tended to make supremely expensive products that achieved maximum performance.”
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Focus
“I, I just had the idea that I was going to read biographies of interesting people and then talk about that, and…”
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People
“I had to think, 'Okay, what are the things that affect how a team functions?' The first obvious assumption would be that…”
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Persistence
“Um, and that whole idea that if you're a day late, like, it's really hard for us to understand, uh, the, like…”
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Capital
“And then instead of, instead of starting another company and staying on, uh, s- like remaining an entrepreneur, they turn to an…”
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