Elon Musk

“We were the first two humans to see maps and door-to-door directions on the internet.”

“He was a winner of the Cape to Cairo race, where you take a car and you basically just make it from Cape Town to Cairo. I think he, I think that's how he won. He was the only guy that made it. And so that was in 1958.”

“Elon Musk, you know, had X.com and Peter Thiel had Confinity and they merged to become PayPal and both of them were probably going to die otherwise. That was the only way they could survive was to merge.”

“I believe that a lot of my friends in the innovation world are actually, in many cases, brighter than the vast majority of professors at top schools, and they have very dynamic minds, and they've created lots of huge, amazing things, they're pushing things for…”

“Look, I think Elon is the greatest product mind of our generation. I mean, he is just savant in his ability to design solutions.”

“No, that was, no, that was me. That was me.”

“Mostly no. So I spent a lot of time with JB. I mean, Elon was already an investor. He was on the board. But day to day, you know, I worked, we worked out at JB's living room. That was the Tesla annex. Back then.”

“When we talked with Elon, what he said is he believes that there needs to be more builders in the world.”

“I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if Elon makes it to Mars by twenty-twenty-six or so.”

“I was with, you know, with Elon earlier recently, and he's just, like, exhausted from doing all these things at once, and he's just laughing a lot and talking about memes, and it's just clear, he's just, like, trying to, like, recover somehow from, like, doing…”

“Elon, with the work that he's done at Twitter, right, they reduced headcount by 70, 80%. And the product release cycle is probably gone up by at least 70%, right? It's incredible what they have in the pipeline there, and the fact that they're doing this with, …”

“Steve Davis, who is a key leader at SpaceX, CEO of Boring Company. He's, he wants to help teach mechanical engineering, teach engineering at our university because, and he's doing it because he likes teaching at university, but also because he wants some of th…”

“Really Elon is the big thing that's keeping that from persisting. But that is not enough. Like that he's not, he's one person, his opinions could change. Like it's, it is really dangerous.”

“And we talked about the use of the state's judicial systems to persecute political enemies both of course with Donald Trump and Elon Musk recently with rulings that, you know, even though I looked into them in a lot of detail, they both seem to be BS and to be…”

“I think if you take away maybe five or 10 of the most important tech people, a lot of these really bad things do happen.”

“Rich people make me richer. How, Elon Musk, I don't know if he's still the richest man in the world, but I'm no poorer because he's richer. I'm richer because he's richer.”

“When we were building PayPal, I was a kid there Eliot Spitzer kept trying to destroy the company with regulation, and he came very close to doing so, and in Europe, there actually were companies that, that were destroyed by the regulators, so it's funny, like,…”

“A lot of the builders who I admire most, whether it's Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Charles Koch, they're deeply enmeshed in philosophy. They're philosopher builders, and they've taken the time to go and kind of work on society to make sure our society stays somethi…”

“At the Pentagon, as you know, Joe, there's always the tendency to make a customized bespoke solution for every problem they have. And if you're building a stealth bomber, okay, well, you can't just go out and find a company that's building stealth bombers for …”

“Now that we control both the House and the Senate, I think you'll see more focus on eliminating the kind of waste fraud and abuse that Elon Musk and his team have exposed.”

“These human robots, like the general purpose robotics thing is going to happen, and it's going to happen in the next decade, and it's going to happen at giant scale, and I think there's a plausible argument, which Elon also believes, that robotics is going to …”

“But he launches about 2000 per year.”

“When my friends bought Twitter with Elon they actually, my account was also a throttle.”

“Today it's become almost a badge of honor because of how ridiculous the attacks have become. It's not just Marc Andreessen. It's not just you. It's not just Elon. It's not just the people with names. You know, they'll, they'll attack anyone that they think the…”

“We actually, I was with Elon recently. He was here, and his, one of his big concerns for the US was not having enough power. He's very impressed by how much power China's making overall.”