Chris Williamson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
He's had sort of a taste for that for a long time, I think.
He's dated actresses and kind of living in LA.
But there's an element to which having that personal presence and talking about what you're doing, he needs to rally support.
Like you need a great team.
You need investors.
You need popular support.
Like think about how hard it was to convince people that electric cars were not just not stupid, but fucking awesome.
Like that took a lot of repetition.
It was just a hybrid.
Like the real electric cars were even worse.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think it's difficult now to understand how stupid and insane it seemed when he started Tesla.
And the same thing with the rocket.
There were no space startups.
Space economy was not a thing.
And NASA had been on this slow decline for 50 years.
We were paying Russia to take our astronauts up to the space station.
These were by no means, not just not obvious, but like