Hey everybody Rob now we're here and today we have a great fortune to be joined by Walter

Isaacson.

I'm sure needs no introduction especially this week with everything going on but Walter

of course written the Leonardo da Vinci biography Einstein, plenty more Steve Jobs and of course

most recently joining that list Elon Musk.

So thank you Walter for joining us today please to have you on the podcast.

It's great to be with you Rob and I've been listening to your podcast for two years

now.

It's helped a lot.

That's awesome.

I'm glad I could be helpful.

And I'm excited to see that too because a lot of times you know we're in the Tesla

space dealing with people that don't have a lot of context and obviously you've got more

context now than anyone so we're excited to learn about it.

I think the great place to start is just you know how has this experience been over the

last couple of years for you?

You know it's been a wild ride when I started you know a little over two years ago.

I did it because of Tesla and bringing us into the era of electric vehicles and the

idea of sustainable energy being such a mission for him and also of course rockets and how

he was being able to bring us into a new era of space adventure travel and it's of a commercial

travel and then you know a year or so into it he decided to buy Twitter so it became a

lot more of a roller coaster but as you'll see from the book I wanted to keep the focus

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