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How To Be The Next Elon Musk According To Elon Musk

Name: How To Be The Next Elon Musk According To Elon Musk
Uploaded: 2017-07-22T21:48:08.227Z
Duration: 2 min 30 s
Description: Elon Musk did not expect to be involved in all the ventures he eventually pursued. In college, he identified five areas of interest: making life multiplanetary, sustainable energy, the internet, genetics, and AI.

From Y Combinator · Published Jul 22, 2017 · Watch on YouTube

TL;DR

Elon Musk did not expect to be involved in all the ventures he eventually pursued. In college, he identified five areas of interest: making life multiplanetary, sustainable energy, the internet, genetics, and AI.

Key insights

Musk’s college-era list of five impactful areas (multiplanetary life, sustainable energy, internet, genetics, AI) was a set of possibilities, not a locked-in plan; he did not anticipate working on all
He initially intended to contribute via electric car energy storage, working as an intern on advanced ultracapacitors before starting grad studies on the same topic.
Musk paused his PhD at Stanford in 1995 because he sensed a steep inflection point for internet technology and wanted to participate rather than watch from academia.

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