Iron Man from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story

In 2008 Tesla Motors launched its first car, the completely electric Roadster. Tesla was a great story — something genuinely new, an engineering marvel. Musk became a media darling, on the cover of countless magazines under headlines like 'Elon Musk, AKA Tony Stark, Wants to Save the World'. Within the logic of Muskism, talking about saving the world was a business strategy, a way to sell cars without ads. Why did so many people buy what Musk was selling?

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Iron Man from X Man: The Elon Musk Origin Story is an episode from The Last Archive by Pushkin Industries.

This episode is 27:57 long.

This episode was published on Mar 28, 2025.

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