Y Combinator: Elon Musk on How to Build the Future
Sam Altman interviews Musk for Y Combinator's How to Build the Future, dated September 15, 2016. The official transcript page has no chapter list.
Episode details
- Show
- How to Build the Future (Y Combinator)
- Interviewer
- Sam Altman
- Released
- September 15, 2016
- Runtime
- Long-form in the ElonPod index
What the episode covers
The Y Combinator page dated September 15, 2016 publishes the transcript. Craig Cannon introduces it as a YC podcast episode. There is no chapter list. The topics below are the questions Sam Altman asks, paraphrased. Answers are not quoted.
- Which problems are worth working on.
- What Musk worked on when he was younger, and whether a PhD is the way to be useful.
- The decision to start SpaceX, and how he treats fear when an idea is called unrealistic.
- The prospects of a Mars colony.
- A positive future for AI. The questions include OpenAI, which the page treats as part of this conversation.
- How he splits time across SpaceX, Tesla and OpenAI, including engineering work versus business operations. The transcript names Gwynne Shotwell in that stretch.
- A video-game recommendation at the end.
Where to watch or listen
This is the only How to Build the Future (Y Combinator) episode in the ElonPod index. Related appearances are on Timeline.
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