“Please prepare yourself for a level of intensity that is greater than anything most of you have ever experienced before,” Elon Musk once wrote in an email to employees at Tesla. The subject line, “ultra hardcore,” also operates as an edict - go hard or go anywhere else. But this “ultra hardcore” philosophy has led to injuries, scandals and lawsuits. Are the ... Show More
Sep 2023
Escape From Burning Man + Musk vs. the A.D.L. + Listener Questions
<p>This week: How tech executives’ favorite place to take their pants off turned into a muddy hellscape. We talk to one executive who couldn’t just call a helicopter to escape.</p><p>Then, Jonathan Greenblatt, C.E.O. of the Anti-Defamation League, on how his organization went fro ... Show More
1h 4m
Oct 2023
Uber’s Profit, Power and Problems with CEO Dara K
Uber: hard to live with it, or without it. In this episode Kara grills CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on the company’s sky-high prices, high take rate, treatment of drivers/couriers, policies around safety and why oh why he is kind to his predecessor, Travis Kalanick.
Before and after th ... Show More
1 h
Sep 2016
#1 Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, & the Quest for a Fantastic Future
What I learned from reading Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
The conventional wisdom of the time said to take a deep breath and wait for the next big thing to arrive in due course. Musk rejected that logic by throwing $100 million int ... Show More
58m 13s
Sep 2023
What’s more venture capital than space lasers?
This week, we brought TechCrunch+ senior climate reporter Tim De Chant on to talk climate tech, hardware breakthroughs, and why we have a whole stage this year at Disrupt focused on sustainability.
On that last point, perhaps you have gone outside recently. Extreme weather around ... Show More
30m 53s