#35: Elon Musk's Biographer, Ashlee Vance—What Can Everyday Entrepreneurs Learn from the Life of Elon Musk?
The StoryBrand Podcast
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
There's nobody like Elon Musk.
As the founder and CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla (among other ventures), he is arguably the world's most visionary entrepreneur.
And on the podcast this week, Donald Miller interviews Ashlee Vance, the man who wrote Musk's definitive (and bestselling) biography.
As entrepreneurs ourselves, what can we learn from a pioneering leader like Elon Musk?
Listen to this interview for an inside look at Musk's life and discover the big takeaways we can use to build our businesses, even if we're NOT building rockets.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Building a Story Brand podcast where we believe if you confuse you'll lose noise is the |
| 0:14.0 | enemy and creating a clear message is the best way to grow your business I'm your |
| 0:18.2 | host Donald Miller and I'm joined by my co-host JJ Peterson. |
| 0:21.8 | Hi Don it's been a while. |
| 0:23.4 | You and I have been on the road once again. |
| 0:25.4 | That's right. |
| 0:26.4 | As we tend to do. |
| 0:27.4 | You were traveling. |
| 0:28.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.4 | You were in California. |
| 0:30.4 | South Carolina, Chicago. |
| 0:32.4 | Doing private workshops for companies? |
| 0:34.0 | Dallas, Texas, three different times. |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah, get to spend two days with companies where I go in and they bring their whole team. |
| 0:39.9 | We can get everybody kind of working through their story, their messaging, get everybody |
| 0:43.7 | on the same page it's a blast it's awesome and then they take what they learn and |
| 0:47.3 | they redo all their websites and all that kind of stuff |
| 0:49.6 | email everything it's a lot of fun well it's really cool I was on vacation |
| 0:52.3 | yes I saw your pictures on Palm Springs. |
| 0:56.0 | I was very aware that you were on vacation. |
| 0:58.0 | I sat by a pool for nine days. |
| 1:01.0 | And it was hard. I remember one time I wanted more ice water and I mean the |
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