Eric Jorgenson
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And like the further you go in life, the more unique you should become.
You know, like if you're not weird, how do you know you're free?
Yeah.
Because he's the greatest entrepreneur of our generation and maybe the greatest of all time.
There's so much to learn.
Because I think social media would have happened without Zuckerberg.
Search engines would have happened without Larry and Sergey.
e-commerce would have happened without Bezos.
Like Elon is alone in going balls to the wall, max risk at the craziest companies on earth and making them work even at the risk of financial ruin and public embarrassment and tackling these like grand problems that humanity faces.
Like I think he's just absolutely singular.
Yeah.
So the weird thing about my books is I don't write about people.
I build books that feel like they're talking to you.
So I want it when you read this book for it to feel like you're sitting across the table from Elon and he's like teaching you everything he knows.
I want you to have a highlight on every page.
I want you to feel like you are being personally mentored by this incredible entrepreneur.
And so what I do to create that is I don't, I don't write, I, I curate.
And so I collect everything he's ever said publicly.
I've
And I spent thousands of hours going through all of them, pulling out all the best nuggets and building this like mosaic, like a jigsaw puzzle that reads really smoothly and all the ideas kind of go together.