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How Elon Thinks

My friend Eric Jorgenson spent years—and thousands of hours—studying Elon Musk. Eric read everything Elon has written, read everything written about Elon, and watched every interview Elon's given. He distilled all of Elon's insights into his new book. This episode is all about How Elon Thinks based on ⁠The Book of Elon: Elon Musk's Most Useful Ideas in His Own Words⁠ https://amzn.to/40OuOJ5 Episode sponsors: Ramp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud ⁠⁠⁠by going to Ramp.com to learn how they can help your business save time, save money⁠⁠, and grow revenue.⁠ https://ramp.com Automate compliance, security, and trust with Vanta.⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Vanta helps you win trust, close deals, and stay secure—faster and with less effort⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠Find out how increased security leads to more customers by going to Vanta⁠⁠⁠. Tell them David from Founders sent you and you'll get $1000 off. https://vanta.com/founders

David Senrahost
Mar 24, 202651mWatch on YouTube ↗

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EPISODE INFO

Released
March 24, 2026
Duration
51m
Channel
Founders Podcast
Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

My friend Eric Jorgenson spent years—and thousands of hours—studying Elon Musk. Eric read everything Elon has written, read everything written about Elon, and watched every interview Elon's given. He distilled all of Elon's insights into his new book. This episode is all about How Elon Thinks based on ⁠The Book of Elon: Elon Musk's Most Useful Ideas in His Own Words⁠ https://amzn.to/40OuOJ5 Episode sponsors: Ramp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud ⁠⁠⁠by going to Ramp.com to learn how they can help your business save time, save money⁠⁠, and grow revenue.⁠ https://ramp.com Automate compliance, security, and trust with Vanta.⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Vanta helps you win trust, close deals, and stay secure—faster and with less effort⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠Find out how increased security leads to more customers by going to Vanta⁠⁠⁠. Tell them David from Founders sent you and you'll get $1000 off. https://vanta.com/founders

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  • David Senra

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    Host of the Founders Podcast, covering lessons from the lives of famous entrepreneurs.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Founders Podcast, featuring David Senra, How Elon Thinks explores elon Musk's Most Useful Ideas on Engineering, Teams, and Urgency Senra explains that Eric Jorgenson compiled Elon Musk's most useful ideas from years of reading and watching everything Musk wrote and said, and Senra reads his highlights so Musk appears to speak directly to the listener.

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