This fall, Hollywood’s favorite villains are tech CEOs trying to build the future.
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villains → try → future
Out now, “The Social Reckoning,” portrays Mark Zuckerberg as a man destabilizing the world; Alex Gibney’s nearly four-hour documentary “Musk,” has been described as a “hit piece”; and Nathan Fielder’s “You Can See Everything” spotlights a deranged Elizabeth Holmes.
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You → portray → Holmes
A new CBS show, “Cupertino,” follows the lawyers taking on the Silicon Valley elite.
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show → follow → elite
Next month, Netflix’s The Altruists focuses on Sam Bankman-Fried defrauding FTX customers, while December’s “Artificial,” paints Sam Altman as a manipulative sociopath.
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Artificial → focus → sociopath
While, some of the criticism is fair, some billionaire founders deserve to be celebrated as heroes for creating a brighter future.
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founders → deserve → future
Before the demonstration began, Musk admitted he wasn’t sure it would work, saying “success is not guaranteed.”
Then, the Tesla Roadster drove up a curved ramp until it was hanging upside down, held in place by underbody suction fans.
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it → begin → fans
From there, it launched off the ramp, flipped in the air with the help of SpaceX cold-gas thrusters, and used those same thrusters to lower itself gently to the ground.
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it → launch → ground
Later, it accelerated from 0 to 60 mph in under a second and leaped over a lineup of Teslas, including a Cybertruck and a Semi.
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it → accelerate → Semi
“Turns out the future does have flying cars,” Musk posted on X afterward.
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Musk → turn → X
On stage he described the Roadster as a collaboration between “the world’s best car company and the world’s best rocket company.”
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he → describe → company
He was smart to do it in front of a live audience.
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He → do → audience
In this day and age, anything too badass is assumed to be fake.
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anything → assume → day
Musk said as much on stage, “We need an audience to prove that it’s not AI.”
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it → say → audience
A single clip Musk posted of Thursday’s event on X has racked up 47 million views as of Friday afternoon.
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Musk → post → afternoon
On stage, Musk also referenced the old complaint from notable investors Peter Thiel who said, “The future promised us flying cars, but instead we got 140 characters.”
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we → reference → characters
Actually, if last night is any indication, it turns out we can have both.
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we → turn → both
In a world filled with so much fear about the future, it was refreshing to be reminded that founders who sometimes get things wrong can also get things very right.
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things → fill → future
What if the future isn’t just something to be scared of?
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future → scar → ?
What if some of it is genuinely fantastic — filled with flying cars, technology that helps the paralyzed walk and AI research that cures cancer.
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that → fill → cancer
The same boundless energy, audacity and vision that can produce failure can also produce something genuinely awe-inspiring.
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that → produce → something
And it’s founders’ recklessness and audacity that built America.
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that → ’ → America
It wasn’t a bunch of bureaucrats of middle managers, it was people crazy and ambitious enough to try — the Thomas Edisons, the Wright Brothers, the Henry Fords.
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it → try → managers
Yes, fraudsters like Elizabeth Holmes and Sam Bankman-Fried deserve to be exposed and held accountable.
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fraudsters → deserve → Holmes
And leaders like Sam Altman deserve tough questions about the technology they’re putting into the world.
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they → deserve → world
But as much as the media calls out what goes wrong, we should also recognize when things go right.
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things → call → ?
Scrutinizing founders and celebrating innovation aren’t mutually exclusive.
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Scrutinizing → scrutinize → innovation
There is something worth defending about the founder willing to pursue an idea that everyone else thinks is ridiculous, and persuade engineers, investors and employees to help make it real.
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it → be → engineers
We should want a culture that produces inventors, engineers and founders, not just people ridicule them for trying
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people → want → them
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