Elon Musk
CEO, Tesla and SpaceX. On 9 shows, 14 appearances, plus 10 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
founderexecutiveinvestorengineer@elonmusk ↗Wikipedia ↗Instagram ↗
He directs operations across aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, and artificial intelligence venture xAI. Widely recognized as one of the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs, Musk also co-founded Neuralink and OpenAI, founded The Boring Company, and acquired social media platform X.
9shows
14appearances
223statements
41resolved
20supported
10contradicted
49%fully supported
6,265said about them ↓ Everything Elon Musk said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Musk: Digital superintelligence will arrive by 2026 for sure
“Like, I think we're quite close to digital superintelligence. It may happen this year, and if it doesn't happen this year, next year for sure. Digital superintelligence is defined as smarter than any human at anything.”
Musk: AI will perform any cognitive task within three to four years
“I mean, AI really within the next few years will be able to do any cognitive task. Like, it obviously begs the question, what are we all gonna do? You know, I'd say max three or four years. Maximum.”
Musk: Almost every conspiracy theory about Twitter turned out true
“Almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true. So far, they've all turned out to be true, and if not, more true than people thought.”
Elon Musk: Space will be cheapest location for AI compute in 2-3 years
“The lowest cost place to put AI will be space. And that'll be true within two years. Maybe three. Three at the latest.”
Musk: X has not suspended or de-amplified any left-wing voices
“So what I've tried to do is just restore it to be balanced and centrist. So there haven't been any left-wing voices that have been suspended or, you know, banned or de-amplified or anything like that.”
Musk: AI and robotics will make working optional in under 20 years
“I think it will turn out to be true that in less than 20 years, that maybe even as little as, I don't know, 10 or 15 years the advancements in AI and robotics
will
Bring us to the point where working is optional.”
Musk: Money will eventually disappear as a concept due to AI
“I think long term, I think money disappears as a concept, honestly. It's kind of strange, but in, in a future where anyone can have anything I think you no longer need money as a database for labor allocation. If there's, if AI and robotics are big enough to s…”
Musk: AI, robotics, and spaceflight companies will capture almost all value
“There's an argument that companies that do AI and robotics, and maybe space flight, are gonna be overwhelming, overwhelmingly all the value, almost all the value. So the output of goods and services from AI and robotics is so high that it will dwarf everything…”
Musk: AI and humanoid robots will eliminate global poverty
“But AI and humanoid robots will actually eliminate poverty.”
Elon Musk: Tesla will probably have to build a gigantic chip fab
“I can't see any other way to get to the volume of chips that, that we're looking for. So, I think we're probably gonna have to build a gigantic chip app.”
Musk: UK released violent offenders to imprison people over social media posts
“They have, in a lot of cases, released people who have committed violent crimes in order to imprison people who have simply made posts on social media.”
Musk: Larry Page called him a 'speciesist' for favoring human over machine intelligence
“He called me a speciest like racist or something for being pro human intelligence instead of machine intelligence.”
Musk: AI could be smarter than any individual human by 2026
“I think that we might have AI smarter than any single human at anything as soon as next year.”
Musk: AI will probably be smarter than all humans combined by 2030
“And then probably within five, like say, 2030, probably AI is smarter than the sum of all humans.”
Musk: Actions of the West are indistinguishable from suicide
“Let's just say that the actions of the West are indistinguishable from suicide.”
Musk: Removing religion creates destructive substitutes like the 'woke mind virus'
“And if you take away religion, then I think you actually, you get something in its place which is actually worse than what was there before. I mean, it's like destructive, basically. You get like the white work mind virus filling, filling the hole that religio…”
Musk: Mars could become self-sustaining in roughly 25 to 30 years
“I think it can be done in, in 30 years. Provided there's an exponential increase in the tonnage to Mars, with each successive Mars transfer windows, which is every two years. So every two years, the planets align, and you can transfer to Mars. So I think in, R…”
Musk predicts Mars will be self-sustaining within roughly 30 years
“I think we'll have enough mass transferred to Mars within like roughly 30 years to make Mars self-sustaining, such that Mars can continue to grow and prosper, even if the resupply shifts from Earth stop coming.”
Musk: There is a 10% to 20% chance AI causes annihilation
“I think it most likely will be a good outcome. I guess I'd sort of agree with Jeff Hinton that maybe it's a 10 to 20% chance of annihilation. But look on the bright side, that's 80 to 90% probability of a great outcome.”
Musk: AI and robotics will drive cost of goods toward zero
“Anything that is a manufactured good or provided service will, I think, with the advent of AI plus robotics, that the cost of goods and services will be, will Trend to zero. Like, I'm not saying it'd be actually zero, but it'll be, everyone will be able to hav…”
Elon Musk claims he has done more for the environment than anyone
“It would be fair to say that, therefore, as a leader of the company, I've done more for the environment than everyone else, any single human on Earth.”
Musk: Starlink coverage in Crimea was disabled due to US sanctions
“At the time this happened, the region around, you Crimea was actually turned off. Now, the reason it was turned off was, actually, originally, was because the United States had sanctions and we're not allowed to actually, and that includes Crimea in the sancti…”
Musk: Would have activated Starlink in Crimea if requested by Biden
“If I had received a presidential directive to turn it on, I would have done so, because I do regard the president as the chief executive officer of the country, whether I want that position If I'm not, I still respect the office, and so, if, you know, if we've…”
The other half of the tape: Elon Musk's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 5,847 times in 875 episodes across the shows. 418 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Jason Calacanis 902John Coogan 703Shaan Puri 478David Sacks 392Chamath Palihapitiya 366Codie Sanchez 313David Friedberg 250Brad Gerstner 227
Statements about Elon Musk, by other people (418)
Rogers: US sanctioned former EU official over Elon Musk enforcement threat
“We recently issued some sanctions, which we'll get into, and one of the individuals we sanctioned, ah, was a former EU official who threatened Elon Musk with enforcement action because X within the United States had said that it was going to host on a live, ah…”
Trump: Musk Opposed Spending Bill Because EV Mandates Were Cut
“All of a sudden he had a problem, and he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the EV mandate, because that's billions and billions of dollars, and it really is unfair.”
Asparouhov: Biden Admin Rejected Early SpaceX Return Due to Musk's Politics
“What's incredibly clear is SpaceX offered to bring the astronauts back sooner And because it was in the middle of the election cycle, and because Musk was campaigning for Trump, the Biden administration turned down that offer.”
Chamath predicts Tesla and SpaceX will merge by mid-next year
“When Tesla and SpaceX merge and we have all things, Elon and Elon Corp. Okay. Which will happen. Probably by the end of the year, maybe it'll happen in the middle of next year.”
Cohen: Advertisers Conspired Against Twitter Due to Politics, Not Cuts
“What really happened at Twitter was that the advertisers, you know, I don't know what the situation is now, but they pretty much conspired against him, and, you know, it had nothing to do, my understanding is it really had nothing to do with the cost cuts, mor…”
Altman: Musk operates from personal insecurity and is not happy
“Probably his whole life is from a position of insecurity, I feel for the guy. Do you feel better? I do, actually. I don't think he's, like, a happy person. I do feel for him.”
Altman: OpenAI and its mission are not for sale
“OpenAI is not for sale. The OpenAI mission is not for sale.”
Lonsdale: Government regulators target Elon Musk to punish public speech
“If they want to go to attack Elon to punish him for speaking up, they will, and they do.”
Sanchez: Anyone Saying Elon Musk Harms Economy Is Lying or Dumb
“Anyone who thinks he's bad for the economy is either lying or so dumb as to be irrelevant.”
Elon Musk scrapped Tesla's Model 2 on the spot for the robotaxi
“When he saw the robotaxi, he was so bowled over by whatever it was he saw in it, right, that he remarked to his to his team, wow, you know, this looks great. Let's just do this. He scrapped the Model Two on the spot, and he said, let's do the robotaxi. We're d…”
Sacks predicts second Biden term will force Elon Musk to divest X
“So I think that in a second Biden term, they will open an investigation and just start ratcheting up the pressure on Elon to get rid of X, because that's clearly what they want.”
Calacanis: Musk will buy Twitter at a lower price by year-end
“My prediction is the Board tries to fight it. Stock collapses. Nobody thinks it's going to get done. Elon lowers his offer, and he wins it by the end of the year, and gives him a lower offer.”
Sacks predicts elites and media will stop Musk from acquiring Twitter
“Elon is gonna be thwarted by these folks. He's not gonna get control of this company. They're, the vested interest in stopping him by the board, by the new CEO, and by the corporate media and the political elites is too great. They will find a way to stop him.”
Hays: Elon Musk's lunar mass driver keynote is an IPO pump
“But still, this seems like a, just kind of a blatant sci-fi pump going into the IPO.”
Galloway: Elon Musk is not a good role model for men
“I think he's not a very good role model for men.
I don't think living alone with none of your 12 children by three women with a loaded gun next to your bed is what men should aspire to.”
Sacks: NYT selectively targets right-coded tech figures in Epstein coverage
“The New York Times clearly has a list of people they consider approved targets. They're all right-coded. People like Elon or Peter Thiel and even J. Cal, Because of his association with us, I guess, and they become the targets, but the people who've donated hu…”
Coogan: SpaceX confirms plans to merge with xAI before IPO
“SpaceX confirms plans to merge with XAI before the IPO. Elon Musk plans to merge SpaceX with XAI.”
Hays: SpaceX and xAI in merger talks ahead of planned IPO
“So, they're in discussions ahead of a blockbuster IPO planned for later this year. The combination would bring Musk's rockets, Starlink satellites, and X social media platform, and the Grok AI chatbot under one roof.”
Rogers: Leaked emails show NGO's top priority was killing Musk's X
“We have emails that have leaked from some of these NGOs. So one of them, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Which is a British NGO whose leader was the target of some of our visa sanctions. There are emails exchanged with Democratic politicians in the Uni…”
Calacanis: Tesla will produce 1B Optimus robots and won't be remembered for cars
“I can tell you now, nobody will remember that Tesla ever made a car. They will only remember the Optimus and that he is going to make a billion of those.”
Musk says xAI will exceed all combined AI compute in five years
“Elon Musk says that XAI will have more AI compute than everyone else combined in less than five years.”
Calacanis: Elon Musk was 100% right about government waste and fraud
“Elon was a hundred percent right. Everybody who attacked him, they may not have liked his tactics, and how fast he was going, and locking doors, and turning off credit cards. His techniques they may not have liked, but we as Americans can all get behind not al…”
Ari Emanuel predicts AI and robotics will create three-day workweeks
“It's kind of like a four-day work week now, probably going down to three. I was seeing Elon and seeing the robots, probably three-day work week for full employment.”
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
All-In 2,374
TBPN 1,814
My First Million 675
BigDeal 372
BG2 Pod 225
the Neon Show 141
the Green Blueprint 97
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 861 more shows
2026 1,503 mentions in 203 episodes 7 per episode
- How Elon Musk Solves Problems | Eric Jorgenson
- Ex-Tesla President reveals EVERYTHING Elon does to win
- Inside the OpenAI vs. Elon Musk Courtroom
- Elon's Moon Mass Driver: Here's How He'll Do It
- The Elon vs OpenAI Lawsuit and ads in ChatGPT | Diet TBPN
- Google’s AI Brain Drain, SpaceX's Huge Quarter, Airtable’s 90% Collapse, US Data Fuels China AI
- 🚀 SpaceX IPO Liftoff | Diet TBPN
- Nvidia’s $500B Compute Deal, Paramount Threatens CA Exit, Musk’s Shortcut to $1T Payday | Diet TBPN
- 195 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 1,841 mentions in 283 episodes 7 per episode
- How Does GROK Compare? (Full Analysis)
- Howard Lutnick | All-In DC
- Grok 4 Wows, The Bitter Lesson, Third Party, AI Browsers, SCOTUS backs POTUS on RIFs
- What’s truly going on inside DOGE?
- Jared Isaacman: What went wrong at NASA | The All-In Interview
- Weekly Recap - Elon Vs Trump, Ukraine's Drone Attack, Cluely Update & OpenAI CRO
- Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman Continues (WHO’S WINNING?)
- Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows
- 275 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 1,208 mentions in 161 episodes 8 per episode
- E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
- Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman
- E169: Elon sues OpenAI, Apple's decline, TikTok ban, Bitcoin $100K?, Science corner: Microplastics
- DOGE unveils a roadmap, Unlocking GDP Growth, WW3 escalation, Fat cell memory
- Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- Mark Cuban: Love/Hate Relationship with Trump, Why He's Backing Kamala Harris
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- Low T levels at Y-Combinator (ep9)
- 153 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 348 mentions in 65 episodes 5 per episode
- E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- E129: Sam Altman plays chess with regulators, AI's "nuclear" potential, big pharma bundling & more
- Cody Ko On Building A YouTube Empire, Partying With Elon & Stand-Up Comedy (#503)
- E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
- E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- E118: AI FOMO frenzy, macro update, Fox vs Dominion, US vs China & more with Brad Gerstner
- E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
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Ep. #2: Secrets of Social Media Success, Mental Health & Distribution Hacks - 3 OGs Reveal All · Nikhil Kamath - 57 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 534 mentions in 69 episodes 8 per episode
- Could Elon Musk’s risky Twitter takeover hurt Tesla?
- E76: Elon vs. Twitter
- E102: Elon closes Twitter deal, $META uncertainty, Zuck's historic bet, big tech decline & more
- E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- E108: Doxing debate, Nuclear fusion breakthrough, state of the markets & more
- E78: VC fund metrics that matter, private market update, recession, student loans, Bill Hwang arrest
- E103: Tech layoffs surge, big tech freezes hiring, optimizing for profits, election preview & more
- E99: Cheating scandals, Twitter updates, rapid AI advancements, Biden's pardon, Section 230 & more
- 61 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 306 mentions in 67 episodes 5 per episode
- E32: Behind the scenes of Elon hosting SNL, CDC failures, America's real-time UBI experiment & more
- E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- How To Get the Most Out of Every Event and the World Premier of Southern Sam’s Sticky Icky
- E40: A Bestie gets COVID, Delta breakthrough, Billionaire Space Race & more
- E59: Twitter's content warning algo, equity audits, politicians trading stocks, Fed's next move
- E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
- E20: Robinhood wrap up, Insiders vs. Outsiders, California's failing report card & how to fix it
- This Year's Best Twitter Accounts to Follow
- 59 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 79 mentions in 14 episodes 6 per episode
- What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months?
- E15: “The Besties” All-In’s inaugural award show covering the best, worst & most memorable of 2020
- E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- E13: SPACsgiving Special! Vaccine news, innovation vs regulation, fixing higher ed, challenge trials
- E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
- What Does It Take To Become Rich? How Some People Make Millions! My First Million Podcast 04-02-2020
- E8: TikTok + Oracle, how privacy loss will impact society, economy & COVID outlooks for 2021
- E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- 6 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2018 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- Cannabis Startup Founders David Hua and Vincent Ning on Legalization, Banking, and Industry Trends · Y Combinator
- PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
- Tim Urban of Wait But Why · Y Combinator
- Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose · Y Combinator
- Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 15 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- Don't Start a Blog, Start a Cult - Mr. Money Mustache · Y Combinator
- The Technical Challenges of Measuring Gravitational Waves - Rana Adhikari of LIGO · Y Combinator
- IPFS, CoinList, and the Filecoin ICO with Juan Benet and Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba · Y Combinator
- Office Hours with Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Elon's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALL-INLEDGER | CEO, Tesla and SpaceX | 7 +2 | 136 | 42% 13/31 | full record on All-In → |
| WTFLEDGER | CEO, Tesla and SpaceX | 1 | 41 | 80% 4/5 | full record on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath → |
| Y COMBINATORLEDGER | CEO, Tesla and SpaceX | 2 | 37 | 60% 3/5 | full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast → |
| GREEN BLUEPRINTLEDGER | CEO, Tesla and SpaceX | 1 +2 | 2 | — | full record on the Green Blueprint → |
| BG2LEDGER | CEO, Tesla and SpaceX | 1 +1 | 2 | — | full record on BG2 Pod → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | CEO, Tesla and SpaceX | 1 +1 | 2 | — | full record on My First Million → |
| BIGDEALLEDGER | CEO, Tesla and SpaceX | 1 | 0 | — | full record on BigDeal → |
| NEON SHOWLEDGER | CEO, Tesla and SpaceX | 0 +1 | 0 | — | full record on the Neon Show → |
| TBPNLEDGER | CEO, Tesla and SpaceX | 0 +3 | 3 | — | full record on TBPN → |