Elon Musk
also referred to as: elon · musk
18 statements across 9 episodes · 12 bullish · 2 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Sep 28, 2025 by Daniel Ek · said 457 times in 25 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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brought up most by David Senra (345), Marc Andreessen (32), John Mackey (7), Travis Kalanick (6), Strauss Zelnick (5), Daniel Ek (5), Gustav Söderström (4), Brian Armstrong (3)
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2026 430 mentions in 19 episodes 23 per episode
- How Elon Thinks
- Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
- Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power
- John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
- The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
- Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
- 11 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 27 mentions in 6 episodes 5 per episode
- Daniel Ek, Spotify | David Senra
- How Todd Graves Built Raising Cane's
- My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum | David Senra
- How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
- Michael Dell, Dell Technologies | David Senra
- CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
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Everything said about Elon Musk, oldest first
Sep 28, 2025 neutral
Dec 21, 2025 positive
O'Shaughnessy: Devotion to a small circle rivals Elon Musk's business success
“And that is every bit as successful in my mind and in my book as Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or, you know, pick the people that we all worship. In the business world, I'm amazed by them too, but there are flavors of success, and to me, that sort of devotion, even …”
Jan 4, 2026 positive
Mackey: Musk and Rockefeller are among the greatest heroes in history
“And somebody like Elon Musk, he gets a very, very, very tiny sliver of the value that he creates for the whole world. I mean, He's created, he and people like Rockefeller, they're lambasted as the villains when they are the greatest heroes that have ever, ever…”
Jan 4, 2026 positive
Mackey: Elon Musk is a master strategist far ahead of public perception
“I think you got to put Musk in that category as well. People don't understand what a master strategy, strategist Elon is, and think about the way SpaceX has evolved in a way. It's, he's so many steps ahead of where people realize he is in terms of thinking it …”
Mar 1, 2026 positive
Armstrong: PayPal founders initially tried to create decentralized money like Bitcoin
“You go back and look at what, you know, Peter Thiel and Elon, Max Levchin, all these guys were doing, David Sachs, they actually had many similar ideas to Bitcoin. They were trying to create a decentralized form of money that could be permissionless global on …”
Mar 15, 2026 positive
Mar 15, 2026 positive
Andreessen: Elon Musk conducts up to 120 five-minute design reviews daily
“He'll do like a 12, 14 hour stretch where he'll do design reviews with, but the way that he does it, he does five minutes per engineer. Right. And so he does five to six divided by five. It's been way too long in this podcast. How much is that? 12? He can do 1…”
Mar 15, 2026 positive
Mar 24, 2026 bullish
Mar 24, 2026
Senra: Top founders operate on repeating a handful of core principles
“The maxim here is like repetition is persuasive. It's like you have to repeat one thing that's, that, that is reoccurring throughout a lot of these founders. It's like they have, they identify a handful of principles. If we go through all the notes, all the bo…”
Mar 24, 2026 positive
Unifying financial and engineering decisions in one founder radically speeds execution
“He talks about the fact that finance and engineering is in the same head. In most companies, it's separated. It's him. So he wants to make something. They went under the cost or the potential growth in revenue. It's like, no, that, that discussion is taking pl…”
Mar 24, 2026 negative
Mar 24, 2026 neutral
Mar 24, 2026 positive
Senra: Operating on the Frontier Reveals Otherwise Invisible Opportunities
“If you're not on the frontier, like, Elon obviously wants to operate on the frontier and the domains that he's operating in, and the reason that is important is not only because he wants to push his missions forward, but you also unlock opportunities you can't…”
Mar 24, 2026 positive
Senra: Elon Musk has no direct historical equivalent among entrepreneurs
“I've read 400 of these fucking biographies. Like, I can usually find an historical analogy to an entrepreneur living today where, like, that person was very similar to this person maybe 50 years ago, a hundred years ago. I think Elon's singular, and I think he…”
Jul 12, 2026
Glyman: Hiring college freshmen captures talent mispricings before AI labs compete
“I agree with Elon's philosophy of trying to find really smart people, in part because it allows you to find maybe something like a mispricing in the market by their junior summer, or after they've been working for five years, it's priced in. You're competing s…”
Aug 16, 2026 negative
Kalanick: Only Apple and Elon Musk have succeeded in China
“Most entrepreneurs, let's say Western entrepreneurs that go to China, that is almost none succeed... In our neck of the woods, you're like, okay, Elon definitely did, right? And Apple definitely did. Tim Apple and Elon, right? Those are the two guys.”
Sep 6, 2026 positive
Dell: Elon Musk's greatest contribution is training engineers to build companies
“It's the most incredible contribution I think anyone has ever made to humanity. It's not just the company that he's built, but the engineers that he's trained that have gone on to build other great companies. It's like I said, he's the greatest technologist of…”