Eric Jorgenson on $TSLA, SpaceX, Twitter/X and his new book The book of Elon | S08 E11
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I think we're live. This is value after hours. I'm Tobias Carlisle joined as always by my cohost, Jake Taylor. Our special guest today is Eric Jorgensen. He's written a new book, the book the book of Elon. Fantastic cover. Elon Musk in his own words, following on from his excellent almanac of Naval Ravagan. How are you, Eric? Welcome.
Good. I'm good. Thank you for having me.
Let's It's good to have you on here.
Tell us a little bit about the Book of Elim. How did it come about? What can we expect?
Yeah. I mean, is a very obvious next step to me after the Almanac of Naval was so well received. Like, I think we kind of hit on a format that is familiar to all of the Buffett and Munger fans, which is kind of just like a compilation of wisdom. But applying that to other people went incredibly well. I mean, like, I kind of did the Almanac of Naval as a side project and now, like, 2,000,000 copies had been sold, and we've cut away 5,000,000 more in 40 languages. And it's just on absolute tear. And Elon was somebody that I had always he's been sort of an icon in the at least in the tech industr
And so how do you take that corpus of, you know, all of these things and and make organize it into a way that makes sense?
I I would love to tell you that the answer is, like, AI does it, but the answer is, like, a brute force. Brute force. Like, I I I just spent hours like, I I select these books carefully because I have to spend hours and hours and hours and hours listening to and reading this person. And I compare it to kind of doing a jigsaw puzzle. Like, I I go searching for all the pieces and then I've got a just a pile of chaos on my desk. And I start sort of organizing them into piles, and I collect the pieces that I like, and I sort of figure out how they relate to each other and which ideas build on each
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