Elon's Ground-Level Vision

Shaan shares a story about what made Elon Musk special according to someone who knew him.

"I talked to a friend recently who knew Elon and I said 'What was Elon like? Were you impressed with Elon?' He goes 'I was impressed with Elon but not because he was the smartest guy in the room. We would be at a party, there's 20 people, you couldn't say oh my god that's the guy.'

He goes 'But the thing that Elon did better than everybody else was that Elon looked down at the ground and saw a trillion dollar opportunity that was just sitting there.'

Before Elon, it's not like there were a bunch of people trying to build rocket companies or electric car companies. It wasn't like they were trying and failed and he succeeded - they weren't even trying.

He goes 'The beautiful part about Elon is that he saw those opportunities and he didn't ignore them like the rest of us. That idea of let's go to Mars was there, it was available to all of us, and we were all blind to it.'"