Hello and welcome to the Times Tech podcast where we unpack how technology is reshaping business

culture in everyday life. I am Danny Fordson out here in Silicon Valley. And I'm Katie Prescott here in the city of London.

And this week, it's the big one.

Following one of Silicon Valley's most infamous trials,

we're going to be taking a deeper look into the world's richest man.

And most infamous tech billionaire Elon Musk,

the man who wants to conquer Earth and space and

everything in between, I think.

Indeed.

So a couple things have happened that put the spotlight on them.

In case you've been, you know, living under Iraq, you don't know.

After three weeks in court, a jury dismissed Musk's case against Sam Altman and Open AI.

And it was during this blockbuster trial that Musk was also in the background making plans to get SpaceX onto the public markets.

Usually when executives have a company that is about to go public, they enter what is known as a quiet period.

But Musk doesn't do anything that's quite, you know, so conventional, does he?

Yeah.

No.

I don't know.

That hasn't been much quiet about Musk in the last few weeks.

The Space Explo is going to be the largest in history.

And they'll make Musk the first trillionaire.

I was just absolutely astonishing.

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