Palo Alto, 1983. She hates paying the bills.
Intuit
His wife hated paying bills. So he followed people home.
Tax season's landlord
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A film studio sells off its computer division.
Pixar
A $135,000 computer nobody wanted. Then a short about a lamp.
Sold to Disney for $7.4B
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1993. A Denny's booth in San Jose.
NVIDIA
Three guys at a Denny's. 30 days from dead. Then AI.
Sold the shovels
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Quoted too much for a Russian rocket, he does the math.
SpaceX
Tried to buy a rocket. Built one. Lost three.
Lands them now
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2003. What if a car ran on laptop cells?
Tesla
Laptop batteries in a sports car. Christmas Eve survival.
Made EVs desirable
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2007. Rent's due. Hotels are sold out.
Airbnb
Rent was due. So they sold cereal.
Biggest hotel with no hotels
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Two founders, chasing computer pioneers' dreams.
Notion
Fired everyone. Moved to Kyoto. Rewrote the whole thing.
Everyone's second brain
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