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The Kevin Rose Show

Elon Musk - Childhood and Work Philosophy

The Kevin Rose Show

Kevin Rose

Technology, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Elon Musk talks comics, favorite books, starting his companies, and more.



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I was able to travel to a few

0:02.0

in Pretoria, South Africa, lived in Johannesburg and Durbin as well.

0:06.0

I was able to travel to a few countries growing up within Africa and around the world.

0:11.0

Went to the US when I was, I don't know,

0:13.4

tenish or something like that.

0:15.1

And I read a lot of comics and books and stuff

0:18.8

and things on technology.

0:21.4

And it always seemed like when there's cool technology or things happening

0:24.2

it was kind of in the United States.

0:25.8

So my goal as a kid was to try to get to get to America basically.

0:30.3

What were your favorite comics?

0:31.6

Well, I read every comic in the store.

0:34.3

And I like obviously the Batman, Superman,

0:38.7

I mean the Green Lantern, Iron Man.

0:42.0

Gotta not say Iron Man first because people think,

0:44.0

I did think that was a pretty cool one.

0:47.0

But I read everything, like Dr Strange, you know,

0:52.0

just, if there was a comic on the rack I read it.

0:54.9

Awesome. Yeah. And when did you decide to get into computers and technology?

0:58.6

Did you start coding or was it just a lot of construction going on? Can you still hear okay?

1:04.8

Okay, okay. So did you start coding? Yeah, so when I was about 10 years old I was I went into a store in South Africa and saw a

1:16.9

Commodore Vic 20 and I guess maybe I was nine years old I don't know some

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