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Why We Can’t Quit Elon with Ronan Farrow & William Cohan

2023/8/24
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The podcast discusses Elon Musk's increasing influence over national security through his control of key infrastructures like charging, space, drones, and Starlink, highlighting concerns raised by Ronan Farrow's recent profile in The New Yorker.

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We’re talking about Elon – again – but this time we're looking at the big picture: the tech titan’s “unprecedented power” over our the federal government and national security, as encapsulated in Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Ronan Farrow's latest New Yorker profile). William Cohan, a financial journalist and founding partner of Puck News), also joins to break down the varying fortunes of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter, and the sustainability of those companies under a leader that is ambitious, but capricious. Stay til the end to hear Kara tell Nayeema why, despite his shenanigans, she still has empathy for Elon Musk. 

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