VALUE: After Hours (S07 E36): Why the World Needs a Little Bit of Crazy: Entrepreneurs, Elon Musk, and Creation

During their recent episode, Taylor, Carlisle, and Colin King discussed Why the World Needs a Little Bit of Crazy: Entrepreneurs, Elon Musk, and Creation. Here’s an excerpt from the episode:

So, I was taking it as the world needs a little bit of crazy to be able to create and build those sorts of things. And so, I think a lot of people look down upon crazy people in that sense. I’m not using it as literally crazy people.

Jake: Although maybe. There’s a very fine line between genius and insanity, right?

Colin: [laughs] Yes, it is. There’s definitely shades of gray there. So, I don’t know how you’d put guardrails around that, but I think the world needs people like that whether you like them or not, because they build things that wind up becoming important to society down the road. So, yeah.

Tobias: Is Musk the greatest entrepreneurship through acquisition person ever?

Colin: Objectively probably, right? Yeah, just tally. Yeah.

Tobias: Because Tesla, I guess he–

Jake: He found it. Yeah.

Tobias: No, he didn’t.

Colin: He bought it.

Tobias: But he has had himself updated to a founder, which is probably fair. The Tesla that exists today is clearly like–

Jake: it’s a little different than what he probably when he took over.

Tobias: Vastly different from the thing that he took over. Yeah. I guess he started SpaceX though. [crosstalk]

Colin: Yeah. The world gets a little crazy, man. Yeah, just a little bit.

Jake: Sorry, go ahead, TC.

Tobias: I was just going to say, it’s just a throwaway. I like that line, “We don’t do this because it is easy. We did it, because we thought it would be easy.”

[laughter]

Colin: Yeah.

Jake: Yeah, that’s exactly.

Tobias: Sorry, JT.

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VALUE: After Hours (S07 E36): Why the World Needs a Little Bit of Crazy: Entrepreneurs, Elon Musk, and Creation

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