Elon Musk
19 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 12 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Dec 22, 2021 by Elon Musk · said 97 times in 12 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2025 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2024 9 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2023 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Elon Musk, oldest first
Dec 22, 2021 negative
Dec 22, 2021 neutral
Dec 22, 2021 negative
Dec 22, 2021 bearish
May 4, 2022 bearish
Musk financed Twitter deal with $12.5B in Tesla stock collateral
“Because this deal is being financed by 12 and a half billion dollars of Tesla stock, the banks are holding that stock as collateral for the Twitter deal, and if his shares continue to fall, he has to sell those shares, and if he continues to sell those shares,…”
May 4, 2022 neutral
May 4, 2022 negative
Unlike Jeff Bezos at The Washington Post, Musk courts public controversy
“Bezos, Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, but because of that, you don't really have any more insight into how Jeff Bezos feels about the political issues that the Washington Post covers. He's in the background. I'm sure he has his opinions, but he doesn't…”
May 4, 2022 negative
Musk called California lockdowns fascist but stayed silent on Shanghai closures
“Famously, when his California factory was locked down, he called the officials who imposed that fascists and really publicly bristled against it. But there's been a similar lockdown going on in Shanghai at his factory, and he hasn't Pushed back against it at a…”
May 4, 2022 neutral
Mar 28, 2024 neutral
Gurman: Apple considered acquiring Tesla and met with Musk before passing
“Initially, the first part of the car project was examining what it would take to acquire Tesla, integrate Tesla, and take Tesla to a new level under Apple ownership. And so they spent a lot of time exploring the possibility of acquiring Tesla. Apple's head of …”
Mar 28, 2024 negative
Gurman: Elon Musk would have quickly left if Apple acquired Tesla
“I quite frankly don't think Elon Musk would have lasted long at Apple, right, with Tesla. I think Elon Musk would have wanted control. I think Elon Musk would have wanted to run, you know, probably the whole company, obviously a very ambitious guy, and certain…”
May 15, 2024
May 15, 2024 negative
Elon Musk canceled Tesla's affordable car to pursue a $10T AI pivot
“He's decided, I'm not a car company, I'm an AI and robotics company, and I'm about creating a 10 trillion dollar company that is based on first robotaxi, but then these humanoid robots, and he canceled, you know, the family car, the affordable car, the one tha…”
May 15, 2024 negative
May 15, 2024 bearish
Firing the Supercharger team to bet on autonomous tech is irrational
“You get rid of the team responsible for your most valuable asset, and
You put all the bets of your company, you bet the company on a technology that isn't anywhere near ready for the market.
All of these things together, they're not rational.
They are not rati…”
May 15, 2024 negative
Tesla Roadster engineers learned of Musk's revised acceleration specs on Twitter
“He decided to Himself without, without telling anyone else that that it's gonna go twice as fast as I said before, so instead of going from zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds, which is very fast, like, think in your mind how long Okay, that was about two seconds, like …”
May 15, 2024
Elon Musk scrapped Tesla's Model 2 on the spot for the robotaxi
“When he saw the robotaxi, he was so bowled over by whatever it was he saw in it, right, that he remarked to his to his team, wow, you know, this looks great. Let's just do this. He scrapped the Model Two on the spot, and he said, let's do the robotaxi. We're d…”
May 15, 2024 negative
Apr 23, 2025 positive
Baglino: Tesla Energy Scaled Due to Musk Pushing for Large Projects
“Hands down, the energy business of Tesla could not have gotten to where it got to without Elon's input both as a major advocate in the early days and as a strong force for acceleration on doing big projects like the Hornsdale project, going big or going home, …”