Eric Jorgenson

And it's easy to reference as you understand all the stories and the examples are really tight and try to edit it to be real smooth, like simple, easy read that is just jam packed with ideas.

Yeah, everybody knows that he's successful and he finds a way to win.

But what I didn't appreciate...

I knew this was going to be a book like How Elon Does It.

I didn't know how big of a role purpose was going to play and the fact that he's been like trying to solve these enormous civilizational problems that he came up with in college.

As a college kid, he's been thinking about space travel and humanity becoming multi-planetary and electric cars.

And it wasn't until years later that he saw the technology sort of fall into place and had the resources to go after these crazy companies.

And that's a big part of his secret sauce is that he's just –

has this higher mission that he's serving and he makes all these like decisions that are insane from a financial point of view and that are so risky but he's because he's mission driven and he attracts this incredible talent and he gets so much more out of them he drives people harder and he pushes himself harder than just to generate profit because he's got these big crazy goals that he's trying to achieve

Yeah, I think that's generous to say they're nervous.

I think it's very, I don't know, it's a little sad.

I lament the fact that no one can do anything political without becoming immediately polarizing.

And I understand Elon was probably going to be polarizing any because he's one of the most famous and wealthy people on earth.

But I think it's actually a great thing that the richest person alive is polarizing.

An entrepreneur, an American immigrant, an engineer who risked his own money over and over again to solve new problems.

Throughout all of history, the richest person alive has been a monarch or a conqueror or an heir or an oiled sheik or something like that.

A lot of the controversy seems to come from headlines or political enemies or about these relationships with his father or people who make judgments about his personal life.

That's none of their business without any information.

And I think we all have something to learn from somebody, from everybody.

And there's a lot to respect and appreciate about what he's been through and what he can teach because he's lived this absolutely singular life.