Elon Musk

5 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement May 5, 2022 by Shayle Kann · said 34 times in 17 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Everything said about Elon Musk, oldest first

May 5, 2022
Assertion Supported
Kann: XPRIZE Carbon Removal drew 1,000 applications and awarded 15 milestone prizes
“You may know that Elon Musk is sponsoring this big hundred million dollar X prize focused on carbon removal. So over a thousand teams submitted applications to this prize. Nearly 300 of them passed through the first filter of qualification. Already, 60 of them…”
Shayle Kann May 5, 2022 ▶ 2:31 Growing the Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) market
Feb 23, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Bullard: ESG ETF inflows hit 2022 low when Elon Musk attacked ESG
“The lowest month of ESG ETF inflows was the first time that Elon Musk said that ESG is a scam. That was in May of last year.”
Nat Bullard Feb 23, 2023 ▶ 30:36 2023 trends: biomass, ESG, batteries and more
Feb 1, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Cantor: Hertz EV sell-off was driven by Tesla price cuts hurting resale value
“That being said, a lot of this was a residual value story, and the fact that Musk was reducing, Musk and Tesla was reducing the cost of EVs to be better for consumers is a good thing for them, but for Hertz and some of these kind of fleet customers, if someone…”
Corey Cantor Feb 1, 2024 ▶ 22:34 What’s really happening in the U.S. EV market?
Jun 26, 2025
Disclosure
Kelty convinced Elon Musk to partner with Panasonic for Gigafactory cells
“Starting back in my days at Tesla when Elon wanted to get into cell manufacturing, and I really argued that, no, we shouldn't do that argued with him the second time, we shouldn't do that, because he really wanted to get into cell manufacturing, because no one…”
Kurt Kelty Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 26:15 GM's big new battery tech push
Feb 25, 2026 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2031
Kann rejects Musk's claim that orbital data centers will be cheapest soon
“Because I think that orbital data, I mean, Elon says he thinks that they will be the cheapest way to get new compute in, like, three to five years. I do not think that is possible. Not in that time period.”
Shayle Kann Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 24:20 Volts crossover: Six big energy questions
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