Elon Musk
also referred to as: elon · musk
74 statements across 38 episodes · 15 bullish · 33 bearish · 27 people on the record · first statement Jun 16, 2021 by Andrew Ross Sorkin · said 886 times in 123 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Alex Kantrowitz (606), Ranjan Roy (49), Stephen Morris (35), Anthony Scaramucci (26), Dick Costolo (21), M.G. Siegler (14), David Cahn (14), Chris Hayes (14)
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2026 235 mentions in 36 episodes 7 per episode
- The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?
- OpenAI’s User Growth Miss, Musk vs. Altman In Court, Prediction Market Ban
- Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
- The Anthropic Rocketship, AI’s Spending Limits, SpaceX IPO
- SpaceX’s IPO Triumph, Anthropic’s Fable Fumble, OpenAI’s Price War
- How The AI Bet Pays Off + AI Lab Strategy Game — With David Cahn
- What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?
- Did Apple Get AI Spending Right?, Microsoft & OpenAI’s New Reality, Where’s Stargate?
- 28 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 402 mentions in 51 episodes 8 per episode
- Anthony Scaramucci: Elon Musk’s Trump Exit, Tim Cook’s Tariff Problem
- Apple’s AI 'Gap Year' at WWDC?, Elon Vs. Trump Goes Nuclear, NYTimes’ OpenAI Attack
- Countdown to GPT-5, OpenAI’s Stargate Sputters, AI Math Wars
- Apple’s Anthropic Flirtation, Can Meta Build Superintelligence?, AI Browser Wars — With M.G. Siegler
- Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
- OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity
- The Formula for Capturing Your Attention, Price of Fame, & Algorithms as Editors — With Chris Hayes
- AI's Rising Risks: Hacking, Virology, Loss of Control — With Dan Hendrycks
- 43 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 150 mentions in 20 episodes 8 per episode
- Peter Diamandis — Embracing AI, Befriending Elon, And Living Forever
- Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- Rivian's CEO on Elon Musk's Influence, Affordable EVs, and The Grid's Risky Future — W/ RJ Scaringe
- Neuralink's First Patient Controls Computers With His Mind — With Noland Arbaugh
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job
- OpenAI Builds A Browser, Microsoft Copilot’s Struggles, Jaguar Rebrand
- AI Predictions for 2025: Geopolitics, Agents, and Data Scaling — With Alexandr Wang
- AWS CEO Matt Garman on Amazon's Big AI Chips Bet, Working With OpenAI, and Nuclear Energy
- 12 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 19 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: As We Get Closer to Superintelligence, Everyone Gets More Stressed & Anxious
- AI Keynote: Six Bold Predictions About The Future Of Artificial Intelligence
- Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
- Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers
- Blake Lemoine and Gary Marcus Debate AI Chatbots
- Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War
- The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
- Hamas vs. Israel Rewrites Social Media Norms
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 62 mentions in 5 episodes 12 per episode
- Elon Musk Laid Me Off At Twitter: Simon Balmain
- Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff on Midterms, Trump, Economy, and Ukraine
- How Amazon Reinvents with Artificial Intelligence
- Pt. 2: Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT (And Responds To Criticism)
- Jonathan Haidt: Why Social Media Makes Our Society Stupid
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 18 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode
Everything said about Elon Musk, oldest first
Jun 16, 2021
Sorkin: SEC Chair Gary Gensler might target Elon Musk and SPAC promoters
“And so could he go after some individuals? I wouldn't be surprised if he weren't, and I wouldn't be surprised if he even went after an Elon Musk. I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to go after some of the people some of the higher profile people involved in S…”
Sep 21, 2021
Elon Musk was more respected than Peter Thiel during PayPal's coup
“Oh, this coup happened, but at the time, you know, Elon was a much more better respected, more famous entrepreneur than Peter Thiel. Elon had already sold a company at, he had Mike Moritz, who is the, you know, most respected venture capitalist in Silicon Vall…”
Sep 21, 2021 neutral
Chafkin: Musk and Thiel have opposite temperaments regarding risk and emotions
“I think that Elon and Peter are basically just almost complete opposites, like, temperamentally. You know, Musk is this kind of very emotional, all, you know, he, if he's gonna bet on something, he's going all in. He, you know, wears his heart on his sleeve. H…”
Nov 6, 2022 negative
Nov 9, 2022 neutral
Balmain: Musk will likely make concessions to appease Twitter advertisers
“It's potentially quite likely that concessions will have to be made by him in order to, you know appease brand advertisers in, in certain ways that some of these people who were very jubilant and joyful about this might have a very quick turn of heart about th…”
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Jack Dorsey was an active participant in Elon Musk's Twitter takeover
“Jack is, is certainly not an innocent bystander in, in this turn of events. He's, you know, a very active participant in this turn of events even having not been at the company for, you know, a year and not been on the board since I think May is when he steppe…”
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Balmain: Musk's firing of Twitter executives made sweeping layoffs clearly inevitable
“When I think the real mood shift came On the day that, you know, the deal was closed and he, you know, showed up at the office and fired all the executives. Right. You know, these are incredible people that, that, you know, most people in the company have had …”
Nov 9, 2022 neutral
Balmain: Twitter will prioritize paid features and creator monetization cuts
“There will be a large focus on products that directly drive revenue to the company in that the user will need to pay to do X or Y. And then the other one will be a high priority attempt at sort of creative programs, influencer programs where users pay other us…”
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Nov 9, 2022 neutral
Nov 9, 2022 negative
Twitter employees learned of internal company moves from reporters on Twitter
“On pretty much on platform, following the news, following, yeah, following, you know, following the resources of deep diving investigators like, you know, Casey Newtons and people like that. Yeah, we're finding out a lot of stuff at the same time everybody els…”
Nov 9, 2022 bearish
Jun 27, 2023 neutral
Nov 7, 2023 neutral
Ray Dalio pitched his employee rating software to Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey
“His great dream is that the principles and the dot collector would be adopted by other companies, and he went to other, to some of the most famous men in business. You know, he told people inside Bridgewater. He was talking to Elon Musk about doing this at Tes…”
Nov 23, 2023
Dec 13, 2023 negative
OpenAI is not maximum-profit seeking or controlled by Microsoft
“You know, we're definitely not maximum profit seeking, although you could talk to Elon about some of his ventures for that one. And we open source a lot of stuff, we'll open source more in the future, and we're certainly not controlled by Microsoft.”
Apr 20, 2024 positive
Apr 20, 2024 negative
Swisher: The Government Should Run Critical Infrastructure Like Starlink
“I think the government should be running it. I just don't understand why our government allowed this to happen, just like a lot of, I believe in public-private partnerships, but at some point, these are in the public interest. The public part should be driving…”
Apr 20, 2024
Apr 20, 2024
Apr 20, 2024 negative
Apr 20, 2024 negative
Apr 20, 2024 neutral
Apr 20, 2024 negative
Jul 29, 2024 positive
Jul 29, 2024 bullish
Jul 29, 2024 bullish
Nov 20, 2024 positive
Nov 27, 2024 positive
Benioff: Musk is unprecedentedly running multiple companies and the US government
“He's a great guy. He's doing incredible things. He's brilliant. He's running like 2000 companies and the US government all at the same time. So, you know, it's like, we've never seen anybody like this in my, in our careers, right? It's just like, this person c…”
Jan 29, 2025 positive
Jan 29, 2025 neutral
Feb 19, 2025 negative
Feb 19, 2025 negative
Feb 19, 2025 bearish
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Hayes: Public attention changed Elon Musk far more than Donald Trump
“I think Musk has been changed by it more than Trump has. I think, well, no, I just think he's been this way from an early time. For a long time. Whereas Musk, there's an interesting, over the trajectory of his career, it was very hard to, like, get Musk to tal…”
Feb 26, 2025 bearish
Feb 26, 2025 neutral
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Hayes: X Serves Elon Musk's Political Project Rather Than Pure Attention
“X very clearly has an objective other than attention, which is the political project of its owner. You know what I mean? So like, there's a place where like, yes, that attention is being aggregated for a specific political process. Project. That political proj…”
Feb 26, 2025 negative
Hayes: Musk's Twitter takeover converted political power into financial gains via Trump
“What it did was it created a kind of political power That then created financial rewards on the backside, because once you get Donald Trump elected, all of a sudden everyone wants to be your buddy, and your stock price goes up.”
Mar 14, 2025 bullish
Albergotti: True autonomous technology will drive Tesla sales despite Elon Musk backlash
“If Tesla starts, if they start updating their cars and they're selling cars that allow you to, you know, not have to pay attention at all, like not even look at the road. I mean, I think that company, if people are still going to buy that product, no matter wh…”
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Hendrycks: Elon Musk's X successfully reduced self-censorship in US discourse
“I think that overall in terms of cultural influence and people being more disagreeable and doing less self-censoring has been has been successful. I think that was the main objective of it. And so I think I think that X had a large role to play there. So I don…”
Apr 2, 2025 positive
Musk's merger of X into xAI was brilliant financial engineering
“I think it was a great buy for Elon Musk from a business standpoint because he still owns it, no cash changed hands, and he got to just label A valuation that he wanted to on a property that is not worth that. So that kind of financial engineering, I think we …”
May 7, 2025 bearish
Marcus: Grok 3 delivers minimal gains despite 10x compute
“So he built Grok three and by his own testimony, it was 10 times the size of Grok two. It's a little better, but it's not night and day, right? Grok two was night and day better than the original Grok. GPT four was night and day better than GPT three. GPT thre…”
Jun 3, 2025 negative
Jun 3, 2025 bearish
Roy: Musk's political role caused lasting reputational damage to Tesla
“I don't see the repute, the brand and reputational damage. You can't just undo, especially with Tesla being a, like, if it was a more progressive brand before the typical owner, at least was more progressive and environmentally focused. I don't see how you get…”
Jun 4, 2025 neutral
Scaramucci: Trump will not turn Elon Musk into an adversary
“But I did predict that Trump would never go after him. There wouldn't be a Pyrrhic demise to Elon like there was to Steve Bannon, or me, or Mark Esper, or General Kelly, because Elon's a loaded guy. And Trump got several hundred million dollars out of him to h…”
Jun 9, 2025
Jun 9, 2025
Jun 9, 2025 negative
Jun 30, 2025 negative
Albergotti: Anti-Musk Bias Seeps Into Coverage of Tesla Robotaxis
“I think there's a lot of anti-Elon stuff that sort of, I think seeps into the coverage of this stuff. Unfortunately, it was just hard to do as a reporter. Like you know, it's hard to take your, to take the emotion out of the reporting, but I think it does kind…”
Jul 9, 2025 bearish
Siegler: Musk will struggle to succeed politically without backing Trump
“I'm not so sure how much success even someone as wealthy with the resources of Elon Musk will have when he, when he's not pouring those resources behind Donald Trump. I think like, I just think he's I don't know that he's necessarily underestimating him, but I…”
Jul 9, 2025 negative
Jul 9, 2025 bearish
Siegler: Musk miscalculated Tesla's resilience against losing EV tax credits
“What he majorly mis made the mistake with was not recognizing the potential that Tesla itself could fall as a result of his, both his affiliation, you know, with the administration and also just like the, you know, the ever oncoming Chinese EV revolution and s…”
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
Jul 28, 2025 bearish
Sep 5, 2025 neutral
Nov 10, 2025 neutral
Roy: Tesla is no longer a car company; vehicle sales are secondary
“Tesla is no longer a car company in any way. Elon is not pretending it's a car company in any way. We should all stop looking at actual vehicle sales. That should be an afterthought. That should be like the least important part of the overall business, and peo…”
Nov 10, 2025 bearish
Dec 23, 2025 bullish
Cramer: Tesla's battery division will solve major clean energy cost problems
“I think that battery division is going to solve a lot of what we have in terms of, like, you know, one of the things, why did, the obsession with clean power, I love it, but clean power is really, really expensive. I prefer battery power, and if Musk does what…”
Jan 28, 2026 positive
Taylor: Elon Musk is probably the greatest entrepreneur of our time
“Probably the greatest entrepreneur of our time. I mean you know, he's a company, he's created everything from SpaceX and look at the impact of Starlink, let alone Tesla and X. So you know, had some complicated interactions, but sort of the undisputed leader in…”
Feb 3, 2026 bullish
Mar 16, 2026 negative
Ranjan Roy: AI backlash is driven by disdain for Altman and Musk
“I think so much of this branding problem is around when it is Sam Altman and Elon Musk, and even, I mean, I guess Dario is kind of seeming to be the good guy in the narrative over the last couple of weeks, but it's who the spokespeople are, how they're speakin…”
Apr 6, 2026 neutral
Apr 6, 2026 neutral
Apr 6, 2026 neutral
Hoffman: SpaceX Is Going Public to Eventually Merge with Tesla
“I think one of the underappreciated reasons that, that they are taking SpaceX public is to merge it with Tesla ultimately, right? Like Elon Musk has been collapsing his empire. And just as a practical matter, it's pretty hard for a private company, even a big …”
Apr 29, 2026 bearish
May 4, 2026 negative
May 4, 2026 negative
May 4, 2026 neutral
May 11, 2026 neutral
SpaceX data center leased to Anthropic cost $5B to $6B in GPUs
“The data center that they are going to be able to lease from Elon Musk is a five to six billion dollar data center. That's fully built. Right? That's just from the GPU cost alone. It's fully built and ready to work to help Anthropik deliver these services.”
May 27, 2026 neutral
Costolo: OpenAI will pop on IPO day but face intense quarterly scrutiny
“It will still do really, really well on day one because people are going to be like, it's the next stigma. It's the next Cerebrus. I can't, I, you know, I haven't been able to buy secondary before I want to be an investor. You have to own one of these things, …”
May 27, 2026 positive
Jul 20, 2026 bearish
Kantrowitz: OpenAI alienating tech allies will eventually cause severe consequences
“OpenAI's loss of these friends over time is going to add up to something really bad. Who knows what that exactly is, but there's gonna come a time where OpenAI's gonna need Satya, or it will need John Ternus, or it will need Elon. And they won't be there for t…”
Jul 27, 2026 bullish
Roy: Tesla and SpaceX will inevitably have to merge
“Giving that little nugget to the world, starting to seed that idea, and I think it's almost, it has to happen, because these two companies, again, Tesla has a car business, SpaceX kind of has a space business, still has an internet satellite business, but they…”