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Katelin Holloway – Human Side of Venture Investing at 776 (EP.490)
- ▶ 37:25 Katelin Holloway From Elon to Sam Altman to Jeff Bezos, anyone who's anyone, within a month of that check that I was able to finally deploy into Philip and his merry band of space guys, they are now on such an incredible trajectory.
Gavin Baker – Truth-Seeking and Crossover Investing at Atreides (EP.489)
- ▶ 57:56 unnamed speaker If you were to read the Walter Isaacson biography on Elon Musk, there's a chapter called Antonio and Tim and all of the hard things they did, but they're doing real work.
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 18:51 Alex Sacerdote Examples of that are when we first bought Tesla at the end of 2019 and 20 20, when the EV S curve really took off because Elon got the price
Josh Wolfe & Brett McGurk – Venture, Geopolitics, and the Next Frontier (EP.476)
- ▶ 43:09 Josh Wolfe You have this crazy structure with Grok and XAI from Elon.
Morgan Housel – The Art of Spending Money (EP.466)
- ▶ 43:11 Morgan Housel Take Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, those guys.
Stephen Nesbitt – Innovation in Private Markets for RIAs (EP.410)
- ▶ 47:28 Steve Nesbitt Maybe Elon Musk, if you spend a few minutes, he'd probably figure it out.
David Salem - Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box (EP.409)
- ▶ 33:13 David Salem So there's a certain narrative about Elon Musk these days. 2 times in the scene
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 36:29 Mike Maples, Jr. When I saw the launch, I thought maybe he was joking. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:51 Mike Maples, Jr. So for example, Elon Musk, he doesn't start any companies anymore that don't take on grand challenges that most people think are impossible. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:41 Mike Maples, Jr. I think Elon Musk is a great founder who can overcome any obstacles, but it would be wrong of me to try to be like them.
Ben Hunt - The Stories that Drive Markets (EP.393)
Brett Barakett - Digging for the Puck at Tremblant Capital (EP.386)
- ▶ 30:58 Brett Barakett It could just be, we saw very recently, both with Elon Musk and X, and with Zuckerberg and Meta, two great examples of CEOs saying,
Brian Christiansen – High-Conviction Growth Investing at Sands Capital (EP.361)
- ▶ 49:51 Brian Christensen They were unprofitable and had a challenging working capital cycle, and it's one of the reasons why Elon Musk, in my view, had such big
Morgan Housel – Same as Ever (EP.359)
- ▶ 17:03 Morgan Housel One last example I'll give you, someone once made this point that I thought was really brilliant, that the greatest product that Elon Musk has ever made is not a Tesla car. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:12 Ted Seides You take like an Elon Musk or someone who, for whatever reason, is wired in such a way that they're just going against the crowd. 10 times in the scene
Jim Falbe – Modern Value Investing at Saguaro (Capital Allocators, EP.320)
Ashby Monk – Investor Identity, Navigation, and Resilience (Capital Allocators, EP.312)
- ▶ 47:15 Ashby Monk I was complaining about ESG well before Elon Musk complained that Tesla had the same rating as Exxon or something.
Gregg Lemkau - The Evolution of MSD (Capital Allocators, EP.291)
- ▶ 2:50 Ted Seides Our conversation covers Greg's career path at Goldman and lessons learned, including entertaining stories about his work with such fascinating entrepreneurs as Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick.
- ▶ 13:28 Ted Seides There's probably no one more in the press today than Elon Musk. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:58 Gregg Lemkau I mean, you think about all these founders, I'd say Elon is just next level genius, like sheer genius.
Avichal Garg – Programmer-Centric Crypto Investing at Electric (Manager Meetings, EP.34)
- ▶ 54:23 Avichal Garg And I think if we did, we would probably have, I don't know, 500 Elons.
Steve Drobny – Where the World is Going at Clocktower Group (Manager Meeting, 30)
- ▶ 33:20 Steve Drobny Elon Musk does not get credit for this or claim credit for this, and I don't know why he doesn't get credit for this, but he's like one of the biggest eco warriors out there. 2 times in the scene
Arjun Sethi – A Technology Company that Deploys Capital at Tribe, Venture is Eating the Investment World 10 (Capital Allocators, EP. 240)
- ▶ 30:04 Arjun Sethi Elon Musk used to talk about, which is first principles.
Josh Wolfe – Caution and Innovation at Lux Capital, Venture is Eating the Investment World 8 (Capital Allocators, EP.236)
- ▶ 52:50 Josh Wolfe Their ability to execute and see the vision, they're super high signal, and so to attract more people like that, I surround myself with people like that, and then the messages that I have, I like to speak truth to power, and so whether… 4 times in the scene
Justin Fishner- Wolfson - 137 Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.25)
- ▶ 16:37 Justin Fishner-Wolfson There was the connection between Elon and Peter from PayPal. 2 times in the scene
Richard Tedlow - Charismatic Business Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.222)
- ▶ 14:37 Richard Tedlow Elon Musk, who I think, or the last time I looked, Ted, was personally worth more than ExxonMobil. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:53 Ted Seides Maybe we circle back a little bit and go through your book because the idea of an Elon Musk or a Steve Jobs leading companies hasn't always been this way. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:39 Richard Tedlow I would say the same about Elon Musk.
- ▶ 34:10 Ted Seides Some of these leaders that you talked about, a little bit of Steve Jobs and certainly Elon Musk, there's another side to them that you hear about. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast with Linda Xie and Jesse Walden - All About NFTS (Capital Allocators, EP.189)
- ▶ 42:22 Jesse Walden Like, Elon Musk published this famous blog post, The Secret NASA Plan of Tesla.
Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
Crypto for Institutions 3: Seth Ginns – Investing Beyond Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.182)
- ▶ 47:06 Ted Seides As we look out, there's been a lot of interest, particularly starting with Bitcoin, Elon Musk buying for Tesla's balance sheet and MassMutual, and obviously Michael Saylor at MicroStrategy.
Crypto for Institutions 2 – Michael Sonnenshein – A Path to Entry (Capital Allocators, EP.181)
- ▶ 44:15 Michael Sonnenshein So whether it's Paul Tudor Jones or it's Elon Musk,
Crypto for Institutions 1: Eric Peters – The Macro Case for Bitcoin (Capital Allocators, EP.180)
- ▶ 44:48 Eric Peters If I were to think about like what's really moving the market and I look at the various things that have happened, obviously Elon's announcement was really important. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:21 Ted Seides We've seen Elon Musk do a huge purchase for Tesla.
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 58:11 Chris Dixon Basically a thousand Elon Musk's or something. 2 times in the scene
Anne Martin - Pulling the Oars as CIO of Wesleyan University (Capital Allocators, EP.114)
- ▶ 9:32 Anne Martin We represented ZipTwo, which was Elon Musk's first company that nobody knows about.
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 53:40 Josh Wolfe You see me, which is heresy in the venture world, rail against Elon Musk, specifically as relates to Tesla as a publicly traded company.
- ▶ 1:10:06 Josh Wolfe You know, speaking what I believe about, whether it's, you know, Bridgewater or Dalio or Elon Musk, and, and, you know, that's gonna backfire at some point.
Michael Cembalest – Eye on the Market (Capital Allocators, EP.49)
- ▶ 56:06 Michael Cembalest Last week, I did a post on Tesla, a story in pictures, which was kind of a brutal and cruel assessment of everything you're going on at Tesla, including, by the way, a chart on CEO compensation that shows how much Elon Musk gets paid for a…
Dan Egan – Better Investment Outcomes (Capital Allocators, EP.23)
Jennifer Heller – Thinking it Through (Capital Allocators, EP.07)
- ▶ 55:29 Jenny Heller So I've now made my way through Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, maybe some would argue he's great, some wouldn't, but I think there's some pretty fabulous things about him.