What Elon Musk would do if he lost everything — Transcript

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1. 0:00Elon Musk was asked at a private dinner
2. 0:02what he would do if SpaceX and Tesla
3. 0:04both failed. And he lost every dollar he
4. 0:05had. Here's what he said he would do. He
5. 0:07said he would move to the cheapest
6. 0:08apartment he could find, buy a computer,
7. 0:09and start building the next thing within
8. 0:1124 hours. Not a week later, not after
9. 0:13processing the loss within 24 [music]
10. 0:14hours. He said the loss of money would
11. 0:16not bother him, but the loss of the
12. 0:17companies would devastate him. But he
13. 0:18would only let the devastation last one
14. 0:20night. The building would have to start
15. 0:21the next day. Somebody asked what would
16. 0:23the next thing be. He said he doesn't
17. 0:24know, and that not knowing would not
18. 0:26slow him down. The thing finds you. You
19. 0:28just have to be building when it
20. 0:29arrives. That advice has really helped
21. 0:31me in life. My dad told me a very
22. 0:33similar thing. He goes, "Yeah, you want
23. 0:35to know which direction to go, but if
24. 0:36you don't, you just got to get moving.
25. 0:38It's about motion, not direction. And
26. 0:39once you're in motion, it's a lot easier
27. 0:41to figure out direction. And it's not
28. 0:42that hard to change