Elon Musk, Donald Trump, And America’s Stifled Creative Energy

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, And America’s Stifled Creative Energy: In 1998, Elon Musk was at Zip2, his startup, which helped put newspapers across the country—including the New York Times—on the Internet. Then, the nascent Internet was a sliver of what it is today, but unsurprisingly, Musk was on the bleeding edge of it—and I conducted an interview with him then. On Monday, as I listened to Musk’s conversation with Trump, an insight into how two brilliant, innovative, and patriotic men view America, I was struck by how the man I interviewed in 1998 was already set to become the person contributing to American liberty now.