Elon Musk, TIME’s 2021 Person of the Year, already has a reach that extends beyond Earth. The controversial billionaire, who helms both Tesla and SpaceX, has plans for what he calls “a futuristic Noah’s ark.”
But that doesn’t mean he’s focused solely on the interplanetary. During an interview with TIME at his Boca Chica, Texas, facility on Dec. 3, Musk discussed his wealth, the electric vehicle market, SpaceX and the latest on his relationship with Grimes.
Here are excerpts from Musk’s interview, ed…
I knew from profiling him in the past that billionaire entrepreneur and Shark Tank judge Mark Cuban prefers to do interviews by email. And even though I am personally a fan of the phone interview, because I love a good follow-up question (“and how did that make you feel?”), I wasn’t going to get in the way of another busy parent getting it done.
So here is what Mark Cuban said when I emailed him to ask about how parenthood had affected his thinking and his career.
How old were you when you became a father, and how do you think fatherhood changed your perspective?
45. Holding your newly born child in your arms changes everything. It’s the first time I ever felt what unlimited love felt like.
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Twitter’s former top security official has alleged that company executives endangered national security through “egregious deficiencies” in privacy and security and systematically misled users, members of its board, investors, and government officials about those vulnerabilities.
The former official, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, is a famous hacker and one of the nation’s top cybersecurity experts. He served as Twitter’s security lead from Nov. 2020 to Jan. 2022, when he was fired by CEO Parag Agrawal after Zatko began documenting what he says were repeated security violations, and as he worked with the company’s compliance officer on a formal investigation based on his claims. Zatko submitted his disclosures to U.S. regulatory agenc…