HackerTube.dev

Elon Musk - CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX | Entrepreneurship | Khan Academy

Khan Academy · 7M views · 2013-04-22 · 48:42

Open on YouTube ↗

If playback is restricted in your region, try opening the original video. Use Mark watched to add it to your marked videos.

Overview

Sal Khan interviews Elon Musk in a 2013 Khan Academy entrepreneurship series. Musk discusses PayPal, rocket efficiency and reusability, and how he approaches education and learning.

On Hacker News

HN cites it as a source for specific Musk anecdotes and as an immensely interesting full conversation.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2013–2020

Topics

Tech pioneers & interviewsStartups & entrepreneurshipSpace exploration & spaceflight
Search by tags
elon muskspacexpaypalreusable rocketsentrepreneurship

What people said

Oculus · 2014-05 · Strong recommendation

This reminds me of a very similar campaign Paypal did to help jumpstart the online payments market. Paypal offered $20 to anyone for opening an account or referring a new user[1]. This served to help rapidly grow a market of Paypal users before one existed. 1 (I highly recommend watching the full conversation as it's immensely interesting) - [VIDEO]

Read the original HN comment ↗
dvdhsu · 2013-08 · Recommendation

Paypal buying eBay items wasn't actually the primary method for stimulating growth. Initially, Paypal offered new users $20 for opening an account, and $20 for referring somebody to open an account. They then dropped the bonus to $10 for both, then $5, then $0. This allowed them to grow immensely, and they reached 100,000 users in one month. These bonuses weren't "cheap" though: they cost PayPal around 60-70 million. Here's a reference - an interview between Elon Musk and Salman Khan: [VIDEO] . It's worth a watch.

Read the original HN comment ↗
cbhl · 2020-09 · Reference

Sometimes parts from China get stuck in customs or are otherwise delayed, and this affects Tesla as much as the rest of us. Here's an interview Elon did with Sal Khan back in 2013. He literally had employees running around to buy as many USB cables as he could. [VIDEO]

Read the original HN comment ↗

Sources

Video by Khan Academy, played through YouTube.

Data and selection notes

HN summaries and labels may contain AI errors. HN dates refer to discussions, not video publication.

HN Library: HackerTube export (2026-10-31) and open-index/hacker-news. Upstream summaries and classifications may contain AI errors.

Views, duration and playback status refresh separately from the published catalog. When an update fails, existing data remains visible.

Selection checks
  • SaaS & AI candidates: Matches the configured criteria
  • Editor-approved picks: Editorial review is required

Rule matches identify candidates. They do not guarantee video quality or financial results.

About the library and its sources