Elon Musk was tweeting crazy. He's calling someone a PETA. There was a whole thing in Thailand with those kids that were stuck in that cave, underwater cave. And then he got in a beef with the guy who was really running the thing and he called him a Peta. It was so hair trigger. If you look at some of the timestamps there, one after the next, I get that way too. Twitter is addictive. So I just think he wants to talk. This is his outlet to real people who he can spark with.
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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