By 2002, he'd moved on to SpaceX. And in 2004, he jumped into Tesla. He was not the founder, exactly. You were kind of in his orbit. But you couldn't get an onstage interview with him until 2013. The interview that you finally got in 2013 wasn't easy to book. It took literal legwork from you and your former business partner at All Things D,. Of course, long time Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg.
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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