THE VIDEO SHELF · elon musk interview
Elon Musk - CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX | Entrepreneurship | Khan Academy
Sal Khan interviews Elon Musk in a 2013 Khan Academy entrepreneurship series. Musk discusses PayPal, rocket efficiency and reusability, and how he approaches education and learning.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN cites it as a source for specific Musk anecdotes and as an immensely interesting full conversation.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Khan Academy
- Topic
- elon musk interview
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2020
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
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This reminds me of a very similar campaign Paypal did to help jumpstart the online payments market. Paypal offered $20 to anyone for opening an account or referring a new user[1]. This served to help rapidly grow a market of Paypal users before one existed. …
Oculus on Hacker News · 2014-05
In $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College StudentsPaypal buying eBay items wasn't actually the primary method for stimulating growth. Initially, Paypal offered new users $20 for opening an account, and $20 for referring somebody to open an account. They then dropped the bonus to $10 for both, then $5, then $0. This …
dvdhsu on Hacker News · 2013-08
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