Hey everybody Barry Ritholz here. I just finished recording an episode of

Bloomberg's new podcast Elon Inc. It's a weekly show all about Elon Musk. It was a

great conversation with David Popidopoulos, Dana Hull, and Max Chafkin,

all about SpaceX, Tesla, what does the future look like for new cars coming out of Tesla and whether or not Elon Musk can continue

running three companies at this high level.

I want to play a little excerpt for you here.

Head over to the Elon Inc. feed to listen to the whole thing and if you like it please subscribe.

Let me ask you this though back on Elon the entrepreneur and the salesman perhaps as good a

technologist and an engineering mind as he is one of the great sales people of our time right maybe no

doubt Steve Jobs the second like everybody how often you hear people

described as the next Steve Jobs and it's always a pale limitation?

My theory in that is Steve Jobs died in what 2011?

That was when Tesla was ramping up the model S and so I think the media had quite a lot of a role,

the tech press in particular had quite a lot of a big role to play in this because Steve jobs

died and everyone was like who's the new Steve jobs?

But that ability to create that reality distortion field where people suspend disbelief and

get pulled into a universe that doesn't exist and it's a to be fair to

Elon it's a hopeful vision of the future where pollution is a thing of the past then climate change has been managed and even if we have

over population well everybody just head over to my country home on Mars and

there's plenty of room for all I mean he has created a narrative that is hopeful and that's not the worst thing.

The Steve Jobs thing, I think that was something that Elon did himself.

I mean he has that he has explicitly modeled himself on Steve jobs like he I mean you

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