Tesla

“You like your Tesla? You wouldn't have it if fucking Elon wasn't a psychopath out there working super hard every day. And the same thing goes for most of the things that we take for granted. It's because some irrational human Was so driven for the pursuit that…”

“Well, I think that if robots are going to be 30,000 dollars a piece from, what do you call it? Tesla? In two years? They're going to be 5000 in five years.”

“Social networks would have happened without Zuckerberg. Search engines would have happened without Larry and Sergey. Pick your thing. We would have had operating systems without Bill Gates. We would have computers without jobs. It's not clear that we would hav…”

“The algorithm is five steps, and the order is very important. So the first step is to question every requirement. He says, no matter how many requirements there are, question them, eliminate as many as you can. Every existing requirement must have an individua…”

“He got the Daimler deal in part because at Tesla, the Tesla the executives from Daimler were coming to visit Tesla. And he's like, we have a slideshow. We have a presentation like that is insufficient evidence. So In, like, 30 hours, you grabbed engineers, and…”

“To do both of these, like, generation-defining, singular companies that were on nobody's radar, that are now, I think, on the way to being the biggest companies on Earth.”

“You know, the rule of thumb in startups is like you, you're a different organization every time you triple in headcount. Or roughly an order of magnitude, right? And so, what he says is like, what looks like a three-year churn is actually a full tour of duty. …”

“You know, that, that SpaceX mafia or the Tesla mafia are going to be like a really incredible set of companies are going to tackle much bigger problems than we've seen startups tackle in the past.”

“Could we do this repair without a lift? Could we do this repair without a huge toolkit? And it turns out that 90% of the repairs could be done by a technician with just like a portable toolkit at the customer's home.”