The James Altucher Show #160: Ashlee Vance

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Ashlee Vance didn’t have permission. But he did it anyway. And then, one day Elon Musk called him.

“He was either going to make life really horrible on me or he was going to cooperate with the book” said Ashlee Vance, author of the New York Times bestseller and Wall Street Journal’s “best books of the year,” Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future . Ashlee did 200 interviews before Elon agreed, proving permission is not a starting place. I called people and recorded. I did a ton of research. I read every book, article, interview and watched every talk. I’ve spent 10,000 hours interviewing and more than 10,000 hours preparing. Like anybody, Elon is smart in some things and probably stupid in others. But he mastered his interests. Mastery is learning 90% of…from archive.jamesaltucher.com

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