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Founders: #415 How Elon Thinks

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My friend Eric Jorgenson spent years—and thousands of hours—studying Elon Musk. Eric read everything Elon has written, read everything written about Elon, and watched every interview Elon's given. He distilled all of Elon's insights into his new book. This episode is all about How Elon Thinks based on The Book of Elon: Elon Musk's Most Useful Ideas in His Own Words. Episode sponsors: Ramp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud ⁠⁠⁠by going to Ramp.com to learn how they can help your business save time, save money⁠⁠, and grow revenue.⁠ Automate compliance, security, and trust with Vanta.⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Vanta helps you win trust, close deals, and stay secure—faster and with less effort⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠Find out how increased security leads to more customers by going to Vanta⁠⁠⁠. Tell them David from Founders sent you and you'll get $1000 off.

[00:00] A: My friend Eric Jorgensen has spent a few years and thousands and thousands of hours reading everything that Elon has written, reading everything that it has written about Elon, watching every single interview that Elon has ever given. And then he compiled all of Elon's most useful ideas into the book that I'm Holding My Hand, which is the Book of Elon. The subtitle is Elon's Most Useful Ideas in His Own Words. I'm going to read one line from Eric about the benefit that he experienced from doing this, and then from here on out, every other thing will be Elon. In his own words, Eric…

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