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Elon Musk

CEO, Tesla and SpaceX · 1 appearance on the record.

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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.

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Everything Elon Musk said on BG2 Pod that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2029
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.”
Elon Musk Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 21:22 Market Predictions, Rates & Inflation, DOGE, CES, AI Compute | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Opinion
Musk: Shutting down existing nuclear power plants is total madness
“It's crazy to shut down nuclear power plants. I can't emphasize enough. Please do not shut down the nuclear power plants. Please reopen the ones that have been shut. This is total madness to shut them down. Total madness.”
Elon Musk Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 1:07:31 Ep15: Inside Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod

The other half of the tape: Elon Musk's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 225 times in 34 episodes on BG2 Pod. 20 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Brad Gerstner 180Bill Gurley 30Gavin Baker 5Dylan Patel 4Jensen Huang 2Andrew Fox 2Satya Nadella 1Aaron Levie 1

Statements about Elon Musk, by other people (20)

Opinion
Gurley: Elon Musk's Pay Package Is the Most Shareholder-Aligned Ever
“The Elon package is the most shareholder aligned CEO compensation package I've ever seen. I would be thrilled if all of my hired CEOs had a very similar package.”
Bill Gurley Jun 22, 2024 ▶ 50:05 Ep11. Coatue Conference Recap, Tesla & ISS Controversy | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Opinion
Gerstner: The 'stay private forever' strategy fails for most unicorns
“I really don't like the stay private forever idea. It works for some companies where you have an Elon Musk running SpaceX, and you know, the intrinsic motivation and experience will lead to a good outcome. It doesn't work well for 3050, bless you, of the other…”
Brad Gerstner Jun 22, 2024 ▶ 23:27 Ep11. Coatue Conference Recap, Tesla & ISS Controversy | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Opinion
Gurley: Musk's 2018 Tesla compensation package was among most shareholder-aligned ever
“It may be like one of the most, you know, shareholder aligned incentive packages ever, which is, is exactly what you would think Delaware courts would be looking after.”
Bill Gurley Mar 7, 2024 ▶ 55:01 Ep4. Tesla FSD 12, Imitation AI Models, Open vs Closed AI Models, Delaware vs Elon, & Market Update · Bg2 Pod
Opinion
Gerstner: Twitter Platform and Product Pace Are as Vibrant as Ever
“What he did at Twitter, laying off 75% of the people that, you know, I saw somebody tweet the other day, Bill they said, I guess Twitter isn't going to fall over. Right? I mean, the platform is as vibrant and the product development cycle is vibrant as it's ev…”
Brad Gerstner Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 54:11 BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner | MANG VC Gone Wild, Can You Trust AI Valuations? & More | E01 · Bg2 Pod
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: Musk May Emerge as Largest Player in AI Compute
“So I think there might be a real consolidation in the AI compute market where you have the hyperscalers on the one hand, and on the other hand, you know, he may emerge as the largest, strongest player in the AI compute market.”
Brad Gerstner Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 18:14 The SpaceX IPO, Fable 5, AI Capex Update & Market Check w/ Gavin Baker, Andrew Fox & Clark Tang · Bg2 Pod
Assertion Supported
Huang: xAI Brought a 100k GPU Cluster Online in 19 Days
“Just to put in perspective, a 100,000 GPUs, that's You know, easily the fastest supercomputer on the planet as one cluster. A supercomputer, ah, that you would build would take normally three years to plan. And then they deliver the equipment, and it takes one…”
Jensen Huang Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 14:24 The SpaceX IPO, Fable 5, AI Capex Update & Market Check w/ Gavin Baker, Andrew Fox & Clark Tang · Bg2 Pod
Prediction Held up
Huang: Elon Musk will likely build a gigawatt AI cluster first
“I would not be surprised if he gets to a gigawatt before anybody else does.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 57:27 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Opinion
Gerstner: Frontier AI race is closed to everyone except Musk and Altman
“And so if you said, is this still an open sport? I'd say no way, right? I don't know anybody else other than the Elon and Sam at this point.”
Brad Gerstner Mar 2, 2025 ▶ 45:03 Grok 3, AI Memory & Voice, China, DOGE, Public Market Pull Back | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: No entity has $100B or $500B upfront for Stargate
“Elon is 100% right. Nobody has five hundred billion dollars. In fact, nobody has a hundred billion dollars to contribute to this on day one.”
Brad Gerstner Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 17:02 Stargate, Executive Orders, TikTok, DOGE, Public Valuations | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: xAI will serve as the hyperscaler powering Musk's companies
“A hundred percent. I think there's no doubt about it. It already is, and it will continue to be. Like, he has a Koretsu, as they say in Japan, of companies that can leverage each other's insights, and I fully expect that they will.”
Brad Gerstner Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 1:10:04 Market Predictions, Rates & Inflation, DOGE, CES, AI Compute | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Disclosure
Gerstner: Musk and Ramaswamy Called a 4-Year Balanced Budget Plan Unambitious
“And I shared that with Vivek and Elon, and they both had separate and independent reactions, which is not nearly ambitious enough, right?”
Brad Gerstner Nov 21, 2024 ▶ 53:04 Ep20. AI Scaling Laws, DOGE, FSD 13, Trump Markets | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Opinion
Huang: Elon Musk Is Singular in Engineering and Large-Scale Construction
“Elon is singular in this understanding of, Engineering, and construction, and large systems, and marshaling resources.”
Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 48:33 Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Opinion
Gurley: No tech CEO I work with would accept Elon Musk's pay package
“I would offer any CEO I work with the Elon package, and I'm certain none of them would take it.”
Bill Gurley Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 42:41 Ep5. Stock Comp, AI Cold War, Valuations for LLM | BG2 with Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, & Bob Mylod · Bg2 Pod
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: Companies will flee Delaware if Musk pay ruling is upheld
“So if it gets upheld, I expect you're going to see significant flight from the state of Delaware by people reincorporated in these other states that, you know, frankly are pretty friendly as well.”
Brad Gerstner Mar 7, 2024 ▶ 57:27 Ep4. Tesla FSD 12, Imitation AI Models, Open vs Closed AI Models, Delaware vs Elon, & Market Update · Bg2 Pod
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Baker: Musk builds data centers faster than anyone at 122 days
“We do know from Jensen that Elon brings data centers up faster than anyone, a 122 days.”
Gavin Baker Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 3:50 The SpaceX IPO, Fable 5, AI Capex Update & Market Check w/ Gavin Baker, Andrew Fox & Clark Tang · Bg2 Pod
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: xAI will launch Grok 3 trained on world's biggest cluster
“We're going to see he's going to launch Grok three here. I think they're going to have the output the first training run on the biggest cluster in the world. And we're excited to see what that yields from my own perspective.”
Brad Gerstner Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 20:51 Stargate, Executive Orders, TikTok, DOGE, Public Valuations | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Assertion Supported
Nadella: OpenAI Briefly Used GCP Before Returning to Microsoft for Transformers
“The first time yeah, actually, Elon and Sam, they were looking for, obviously, Azure credits, and what have you, and we gave them some credits, and that time, they were more into RL, and Dota II, and what have you, and that was interesting and then we stopped …”
Satya Nadella Dec 12, 2024 ▶ 16:56 Satya Nadella | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Assertion Partly supported
Gerstner: xAI built and energized its supercomputer cluster in 19 days
“What would take somebody else years to get permitted, to get energized, to get liquid cool, to get stood up that x.ai did in 19 days”
Brad Gerstner Oct 13, 2024 ▶ 28:19 Ep18. Jensen Recap - Competitive Moat, X.AI, Smart Assistant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: Very few companies will be able to build frontier AI models
“I think that the cost structures that are going to be associated with frontier level models, there are going to be very few companies on the planet that are going to be able to build those models. Because I think the latest discussions, whether it's you know, …”
Brad Gerstner Apr 29, 2024 ▶ 13:35 Ep8. AI Models, Data Scaling, Enterprise & Personal AI | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Assertion Supported
Gerstner: Elon Musk is locked up for 365 days post-SpaceX IPO
“And by the way, he's locked up for 365 days. Yes, exactly. So we know he's not selling, right?”
Brad Gerstner Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 38:53 The SpaceX IPO, Fable 5, AI Capex Update & Market Check w/ Gavin Baker, Andrew Fox & Clark Tang · Bg2 Pod

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2025 91 mentions in 13 episodes 7 per episode
2024 112 mentions in 20 episodes 6 per episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Market Predictions, Rates & Inflation, DOGE, CES, AI Compute | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad G Jan 11, 2025 11s

Played on the show (1)

Episodes where a recording of Elon Musk was played rather than Elon taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

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Ep15: Inside Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Sep 9, 2024 11s clip played
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