The Psychology of Elon Musk (Chapter 4 - The Rise)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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00:00 The 90's
04:27 Starting a business
08:24 Co-founding Zip2
17:27 Becoming a millionaire
19:15 Millionaires in Seattle
27:11 Merging with PayPal
37:13 Near-death experience & getting fired
50:46 eBay buys PayPal
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September 16, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Desirousermer listeners, this is Chapter 4 in our deep dive on the Psychology of Elon Musk, and this is the Psychology and Seattle Podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Hana, I'm a therapist and a professor. |
| 0:12.0 | My name is Umberto Castaneda, and I dig for Martian rocks. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.0 | So when we last left off, we had just finished the 80s. |
| 0:22.0 | Now let's get into the 90s regarding the timeline of Elon Musk's life. |
| 0:28.4 | It's 1990. |
| 0:30.6 | He is 19 years old and he got an internship at the Bank of Nova Scotia and he learned things about banking which likely helped him later with PayPal at the very least. |
| 0:42.0 | 1992, age 21. |
| 0:45.4 | He gets an internship at Pinnacle Research Institute. |
| 0:48.7 | He learned about batteries for our electric cars, |
| 0:51.6 | which likely helped him later. He also attended University of |
| 0:56.3 | Pennsylvania, he earned two degrees, a bachelor's in physics and a bachelor's in |
| 1:00.6 | economics. It's not typical for people to get two bachelor's degrees that |
| 1:05.4 | means you have to take a lot more classes. It's not double the amount of classes, |
| 1:09.6 | but it's a lot more classes. And it's also an interesting combo of physics, economics, again you can |
| 1:16.5 | imagine that helping him later and shows that at least he had interests not only in |
| 1:22.4 | engineering and physics and the sciences but also in economics finance that kind of stuff |
| 1:26.8 | Yeah 1995 age 24 he has an internship at rocket science games |
| 1:39.1 | Which is a startup that only lasted a few years with no notable games, but he had an internship there. So a number of interships that are pretty notable. He was accepted into Stanford University to go to |
| 1:45.8 | graduate school. I heard different accounts. One account was that he dropped out after two days of Stanford. Another is that he was accepted but never enrolled. |
| 1:56.4 | Either way, he decided not to go to graduate school at Stanford and instead he decided to join |
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