We Study Billionaires - The Investors Podcast

On today’s episode, Clay shares the lessons he learned from reading Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson.  As our audience knows, Elon is, financially speaking, one of the world’s most successful individuals as Forbes has his net worth estimated at $248 billion, making him the richest individual on the planet. 25 years ago, Elon was making his mark in Silicon Valley in the early days of PayPal, and today he is launching dozens of rockets into orbit, taking the lead in the world’s transition to electric vehicles, actively working to stay on top of the world of AI, and has taken over one of the world’s largest social networks in Twitter, now known as X. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro. 03:48 - The highlights of Elon Musk’s childhood and upbringing in South Africa. 07:03 - The key themes Clay found in Elon’s life. 07:40 - Peter Theil’s key insight in working with Elon. 10:01 - How Elon and Kimbal made their way to the United States. 13:34 - The three fields Musk found in college that he decided he wanted to