Season 4 of 20 · 1992–1995

Two Disciplines

Physics and economics, a napkin company, and a doctorate he will not keep.

The internet arrives like weather. A respectable scientific life offers itself. He and Kimbal point a car at California instead.

Place

Pennsylvania

The work

The first company, still a sentence

Pressure

The respectable path

• Internet
• Zip2 idea

18 episodes available · 30:00

1. 01Two DisciplinesPhysics and economics. He refuses to choose between matter and incentives.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
2. 02Thin RentA room, a thin diet, a mind on fire.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
3. 03Party OrbitHe orbits a conversation about software and misses every social cue except the true one.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
4. 04Justine, AgainThey argue novels versus mechanisms and it feels like a door.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
5. 05Internship EyesHe looks at companies the way other students look at bands.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
6. 06Internet WeatherThe campus network becomes a place. He understands this before the room does.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
7. 07Kimbal's VisitHomesickness disguised as a business argument.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
8. 08A Professor's WarningYou are not required to be lonely to be serious. He hears it late.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
9. 09Napkin CompanyThe first company is a sentence: software that helps people find the right business.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
10. 10The Stanford LetterA doctorate in energy physics offers the respectable life.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
11. 11Maye VisitsShe sees the hunger and does not ask him to be smaller.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
12. 12The Two-Day FutureHe imagines graduate school and feels a clock screaming.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
13. 13GraduationA cap, restlessness, Kimbal in the seats.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
14. 14The Dropout PactHe will start the doctorate and leave if the company is real. The episode stays inside the choice.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
15. 15Palo Alto GlanceA trip, too many geniuses in coffee lines, a garage-shaped dream.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
16. 16Errol's CallThe father offers money and opinion. Elon takes neither without a fight.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
17. 17Justine's ConditionShe will not be an accessory. He agrees, and does not yet know how to keep the promise.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra
18. 18Drive WestThe car points at California. Mim rides the rearview, unseen.Available · 30:00 · Bloopers extra

Cast: Elon Musk, Mim, Kimbal Musk, Justine Musk, Maye Musk, Errol Musk