When I hear that clip, I hear shades of why he might want to have bought Twitter. He has no past experience. It would have been easier for him now to do a product, like a consumer product. But it suggests he knows very little about how to do this, but no one else is going to make it better. That's kind of what we saw in some of his texts with people. Do you hear something similar in that? Honestly, when he started going after it, I thought, this is the best person. Yeah, he could do it. And on good days, I think he really, and I'm using a Steve Jobs term, he wanted to make a
Elon Musk is a puzzle, but if there’s anyone who can make sense of him it’s Kara Swisher. She’s covered him since the late 90s – back in her early days as a beat reporter at the Wall Street Journal and she’s had many in-depth interviews and exchanges with the tech titan since, perhaps more than any other reporter. She’s also covered Elon’s latest fiefdom, Twitter, before it even was Twitter. So today we turn the tables, and Kara Swisher is “On” with Nayeema Raza.
We’ll unpack how Elon became Elon, why Kara came to believe he was one of the greatest visionaries in Silicon Valley, when exactly she soured on him — and why she still holds out some hope.
You can find Kara and Nayeema on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema.
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