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Elon Musk Mahalo Mentor Interview
A roughly 40-minute Mahalo mentor interview with Elon Musk, covering his background from Zip2 and PayPal to SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity, along with advice for entrepreneurs.
Why HN readers recommended it
Shared as an early long-form Musk interview, notably for his answer about what motivates him.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- mahalodotcom
- Topic
- elon musk entrepreneurship
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2011–2012
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
It's pretty amazing that the (possibly) most accomplished human did a reddit AMA: [LINK] His answer on motivation was striking to me: [VIDEO] My drive to get it done is somewhat disconnected from hope, enthusiasm or anything else. I just... I... I actually don't care …
6ren on Hacker News · 2012-05
In Space Station grabs SpaceX Dragon shipA couple more Musk videos for those who might have missed them when they first came out: Bloomberg profile that gives a good overview of his companies: [LINK] Reddit AMA: [VIDEO]
MikeCapone on Hacker News · 2012-08
In Elon Musk Wins 2012 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Leadership Award
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.