How Tesla became the Elon Musk Co. from Land of the Giants

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Today we're sharing an episode of Land of the Giants: The Tesla Shock Wave Not many people can name the original founders of Tesla. So how did two guys who wanted to build an electric car create a company synonymous with Elon Musk? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of corporate and fighting.
0:06.3	I'm your friend David Pierce, and in lieu of our normal Wednesday episode this week,
0:10.0	I want to play you an episode of Land of the Giants.
0:13.2	It's another podcast on the Fox Media podcast network.
0:15.9	It's one of our favorite shows.
0:17.1	And if you like the Vergecast, I'm pretty confident you will love Land of the Giants.
0:21.9	We've done series on Facebook.
0:23.7	We've done series on dating apps.
0:25.4	We've done series on Netflix.
0:27.0	And the current one is all about Tesla.
0:29.6	And this episode, the one I want to play you is the second episode in the new season.
0:33.1	You can go subscribe to Land of the Giants and listen to the first episode, but you actually
0:37.0	don't need to have heard it for this episode to work.
0:40.2	This episode is really all about Elon Musk as a leader, what he learned from being booted
0:45.2	out of PayPal, how he took over Tesla from its founders, and how he turned Tesla the
0:51.2	company and Elon Musk the CEO into very much the same thing.
0:56.3	The big open question in this episode is so fascinating to me.
1:00.0	Basically, is Elon Musk a megalomaniac above all else who would do anything to be more
1:05.6	famous and more powerful, or did he believe in the mission of Tesla and want to save the
1:11.0	planet above all else and do what was required to get there?
1:14.8	It's hard to know for sure.
1:15.8	I'm not sure we'll ever know for sure, but I really think it matters given how much this
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