Elon Musk

“I've given personality tests to well, I mentioned that in, in the book, Bill Gates, Elon Musk many, many incredible, successful people, and they all have some elements in common, and then they also have differences, and so there's a path to leadership.”

“SpaceX, I believe, was conceived as the Green Mars Oasis Project, where the idea was it's a very Los Angeles idea we're gonna go buy a bunch of rockets from the Russians, and we're gonna try to launch a bunch of stuff onto Mars, and we're gonna take a photo of…”

“The thing that's scarce today are people who are kind of micro influencers to others Giving them positive feedback and catalyzing this loop that ends up creating everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Elon Musk to, you know, Ramanujan or Albert Einstein.”

“Look at Elon Musk. He's been on the brink of failure however many times, and it's, I think, why he's beloved by many, hated perhaps by some, but I really admire the guy in terms of how he's dealt with, you know, near catastrophe”

“That's certainly true of Elon Musk. Wherever you believe he sits in that spectrum, when you look at his history, he's for sure lied at many points in time in order to keep funding his dream.”

“In the Tesla debate, one of the main things Tesla bulls say is, look at the stock. So, because the stock has done so well, that proves that Elon Musk is a genius and that our belief is, is right. I mean, obviously, it proves nothing of the sort, right? It's a …”

“Toby, Toby, Toby Lutke. I think Toby's really, really exceptional. He . He's world class on the level of those two. My gosh.”

“In 2000 and 15, I think we started to really pay attention to Tesla and we bought these convertible bonds and, you know, we thought they were really great, you know, risk adjusted because, you know, we weren't sure whether The shorts were going to win and driv…”

“There's like the dreamers, the world builders, like the Elon Musk, and then there's the problem solvers. And then there's entrepreneurs or opportunists who just love the game of business.”

“I see that in Elon Musk now, compared to some other billionaires. He's not defining himself by the You know, the amount of houses. I think he's divesting himself of his houses.”

“Therefore, envy is hyperlocal. It's like Wi-Fi. It works only in a local radius, right? I don't feel envious with Elon Musk. It's not even in my network. So humans have this unique thing of having envy in a hyperlocal network. We don't feel envious of people w…”

“Elon is going to probably have, I don't know, five, five hundred billion dollar plus companies, maybe six.”

“And I think that's where the disconnect comes that we love to copy end states And never copy journeys.”

“But I'll, I won't say a lie, but you know, close to a lie and save the company through that lie. Raise money. And now we have this, but had that not happened, whether he was deceiving himself or deceiving other people, or didn't even know he was deceiving hims…”

“Or really successful people who violate those norms get modeled. And it's like, whoa, like Elon Musk could violate all the norms he wants. Steve Jobs can too. But like, you can't, you don't have that authority. You don't have that, that contextual understandin…”

“If you can do something that changes your odds of an outcome, it's not luck by definition. Luck to me, the biggest are where and when you were born. You can't control it. Bill Gates couldn't control it. Elon Musk couldn't control it, but it has a massive incom…”

“I would venture that more than half of Elon Musk's day is doing things that he doesn't want to do.”

“When Elon Musk was planning what became SpaceX, his friends held a literal AA style intervention that said, you cannot start a rocket company. This is the worst idea. You will lose all your money.”

“Elon Musk sees himself as this groundbreaking, you know, Precedent shattering entrepreneur. And another version to look at is this guy who took massive government subsidies at critical points that allowed him to do those things.”

“And so, for me with Tesla, I think that they got away with accounting fraud. On warranty reserves and a whole bunch of other things. I think there was a lot of prestidigitation and magic of look over here while we're doing this. And today it doesn't matter bec…”

“It is this huge randomness generator, this huge optionality generator, and the accessibility, and I just, I absolutely love it. So that's another thing where I'm really rooting for Elon in the continued success of X, because I'll continue to pay a lot of money…”

“And I think that's the right move, right? This is our platform, same way as Meta has. So I think that that repository of everybody's tweets and retweets and likes and the comments that they've made”

“Elon came in and quickly asked, like, 80 or 90% of the people, and it turns out you didn't need 80 or 90% of the people, so.”

“If you look at what Musk did at Twitter, Where they cut 80% or whatever it was. I wouldn't be surprised if you could do things that are pretty close to that at a lot of the big tech companies.”

“The commonality that stands out to me across all those people is they tend to be pretty polymathic, so they have a wide range of interests. They tend to be driven by a mix of stuff, not just money. So of course money is important and all the rest, but I think …”

“Outliers don't have work-life balance. They have standards that follow them everywhere.”

“And the point of this is like, we need more people like Elon, not fewer in the world. Whether you agree with him or not, this is how society progresses. We need differences.”

“Well, the team thought it was too, too big and didn't have the right alignment.”

“Mark Zuckerberg called me, and Elon Musk called me, Mark Benioff called me”

“Elon, Sam, Ilya, and I all agreed. That the only path forward for OpenAI, the only path to achieve the mission, was to create a for-profit entity associated with OpenAI of some form. And so we were committed to that direction, and that is something that we kne…”

“I think that the future state of all this is that we all get to live in some way like Elon. The ultimate vibe coding is life of the speed of play, and it's that you get to have an idea and bring it to life in some way for almost no capital. And get to instanti…”

“The Tesla case is a great example that, that package, that type of package that they did for Elon, I've said this, you know, publicly, I would agree to that type of package for every company I've ever worked with, and most CEOs wouldn't take it. It basically s…”