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I heard him snap at the investors on that recent conference call and I was really amazed.

I thought I’d hear some of their “boring questions” and in fact they were extremely reasonable.

I’m a big Elon fan and I was shocked.

This is just the second time that I think the strain is really, REALLY beginning to show.

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Now that I think about it, in his biography which he initially tried to stop, the author makes the case that Musk lacks empathy for individuals, especially when they threaten his goals which he may have perceived these analysts as doing. Instead, his empathy seems to be with all of humanity and that’s where his vision comes in. (As an example he wants to make humans a multiplanetary species rather than just launch rockets.)

So this outburst is really nothing new for him, it’s just that it isn’t usually so public.