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Hi everyone, Karen here. After a long month, Scott will be back on pivot this coming Friday. I know you're all excited.

But in the meantime, we'd like to share another podcast that Scott Knight recently contributed to.

Land of the Giants from the Verge and the Vox Media Podcast Network has a new season out about one of our favorite topics, Tesla.

It's called the Tesla Shockwave hosted by automotive journalists tomorrow Warren and Patrick George. They tell the story about Tesla's origins, its internal battles, and its broken promises.

In this episode, we're about to share your hero directly from Tesla's founders, Martin Everhard and Mark Tarpening, about how the company was originally formed and how Elon Musk uses cloud money and even a few strong armed tactics to get rid of them both and install himself as CEO.

And you'll also hear from one of your favorite tech journalists and podcast hosts and also one of mine, that would be me.

It's Tesla's origin story, but it's also the story of the cult of Elon Musk. Give it a listen and then go follow Land of the Giants in your podcast app for the rest of the story.

The year 2000 was a crazy good year for Elon Musk. He was the CEO of an exciting new startup, a company that promised to disrupt a fundamental part of daily life.

How you pay for things. With PayPal, you can pay for anything, anytime, anywhere.

A brand new company that was the result of a merger between Musk's online bank and a payments company co-founded by a guy named Peter Teal.

Musk and Teal looked like a dream team on paper, two Silicon Valley rising stars with one vision, blow up the banking world.

Musk even felt confident enough as CEO to take a quick break.

I've gotten married earlier that year and not had any vacation or honeymoon or anything.

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