Elon Musk
also referred to as: elon
49 statements across 32 episodes · 27 bullish · 7 bearish · 11 people on the record · first statement Apr 26, 2021 by Shaan Puri · said 675 times in 144 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Shaan Puri (478), Sam Parr (103), Jon McNeill (17), Cody Ko (12), James Currier (8), Anthony Pompliano (6), Sasha Issenberg (5), Nick Bilton (5)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 76 mentions in 6 episodes 13 per episode
- Ex-Tesla President reveals EVERYTHING Elon does to win
- The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10)
- The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
- 7 things Bezos, MrBeast & Thiel do that you don’t
- 4 dumb ideas that made people rich
- $100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 155 mentions in 31 episodes 5 per episode
- What’s truly going on inside DOGE?
- From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
- Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi
- 7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier
- We spent 48 hours with MrBeast + 11 Billionaires
- 60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA)
- This guy made Millions by inventing the $1 Menu
- We talk to the guy who knows Silicon Valley’s darkest secrets
- 23 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 191 mentions in 38 episodes 5 per episode
- Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman
- Brainstorming +$1M Weird Business Ideas With Morning Brew’s CEO Austin Rief (#543)
- He Sold His Company For $15M, Then Got A Job At McDonald’s
- We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit
- 3 Things You Need To Outperform 99% Of Entrepreneurs
- Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions
- Inside The Marketing Machine Of Billion-Dollar Presidential Campaigns
- From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview
- 30 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 76 mentions in 16 episodes 5 per episode
- Cody Ko On Building A YouTube Empire, Partying With Elon & Stand-Up Comedy (#503)
- This $3B Founder Is The Next Elon Musk (#499)
- Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438)
- Finding +$1M Businesses From Weird Trends (#523)
- Jesse Itzler's Exact Playbook For Creating HIT AFTER HIT (#504)
- Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
- If I Had To Make $1 Billion... Here’s The Business I Would Start
- CEO Lessons: Bulls**t Mission Statements, Firing People & Saying ‘NO' (#505)
- 8 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 72 mentions in 18 episodes 4 per episode
- 8 Profitable Side Hustles For The Halloween & Christmas Season (#381)
- The 2022 Milly Awards (#401)
- Is The Rock Going to Make $1B+ From Tequila? + Placebo Water, STR Update, and More
- How To Get Started With Building An Audience in 2022 (#373)
- 5 Business Ideas With High Demand & Low Supply | Start These In 2022 (#374)
- The Easiest Way To Make $10,000/Month In Passive Income
- 3 Profitable Business Ideas You Should Start in 2022
- How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 102 mentions in 34 episodes 3 per episode
- How To Get the Most Out of Every Event and the World Premier of Southern Sam’s Sticky Icky
- This Year's Best Twitter Accounts to Follow
- How to Have an Early Adopter Mindset, ConstitutionDAO, Optimizing Twitter Bios, and More
- Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More
- Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon vs Bezos with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny
- Brainstorming Million Dollar Ideas with Elaine Zelby | My First Million Ep. #175
- The Milly Awards 2021
- Why Dunder Mifflin Should Be a Real Company & A Look Inside MicroAcquire | My First Million #203
- 26 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
Everything said about Elon Musk, oldest first
Apr 26, 2021 bullish
Edtech startup Synthesis hit millions in revenue in six months organically
“They have, like, super high retention, amazing revenue already in six months you know, doing multiple millions of dollars a year in revenue with zero dollars in paid marketing, and what seems like the perfect team, it's the guy who created the school at Elon's…”
May 21, 2021 negative
Puri: Business Content Creators Are Usually 'B Players' Teaching 'C Players'
“The most successful people, the true icons, you know, they're not creating a ton of content typically. And sometimes they do when they retire, sometimes it's part of their growth strategy, but for the most part, Elon Musk doesn't have a sub stack, right? He's …”
May 25, 2021 positive
Wilkinson: Building wealth does not require tech innovation or mimicking Elon Musk
“You don't need to do something innovative and crazy, right? You don't need to be the next Elon Musk or start some crazy technology. You can just choose a traditional business that's very poorly run and run it better. And I, you know, even better if it's a busi…”
Jun 25, 2021 neutral
Puri: Investors judge multi-company CEOs purely through outcome-based resulting bias
“It's like Elon can run Tesla and SpaceX and everyone's like, wow, he's amazing. And those businesses are amazing. And then Jack does the same thing with Twitter and square. And if Twitter's misses its earnings, it's like off with his head. How dare he, you kno…”
Aug 24, 2021 neutral
Sam Parr: Extreme work hours give early advantages but aren't needed forever
“If you are going to build like these outlandish things, like an Elon Musk type of thing, It does give you a competitive advantage to work really, really, really hard. And regardless if you start anything, you got to work really hard. But I don't think that you…”
Oct 20, 2021 neutral
Wilkinson: Extreme entrepreneurial success requires a personality disorder or trauma
“I think in order to be that successful, you have to have some kind of personality disorder. Or like trauma or something, and you look at Musk or Bezos, or if you read more about Bezos, I think he's a really difficult person to work for.”
Dec 7, 2021 positive
Puri: Epic projects are easier because bold visions attract talent and capital
“When you shoot for these epic projects, things that get people inspired and excited. It's, it seems like it's harder to pull off, but in many ways it's easier to pull off because you'll get talent to pour in because they want to be a part of something bold. Yo…”
Dec 21, 2021 neutral
Puri: Struggling founders must project confidence to prevent fatal panic
“He's like, you know, it is in the incentive of somebody, of the captain of that ship, To go down with the ship and the whole time be saying, oh, we're so close to our destination. Basically. He was like, they're never going to come out and say, yeah, we don't …”
Nov 1, 2022
Nov 1, 2022 bearish
Puri: Twitter's Growth Is Capped Because It Only Serves Power Users
“That's the core problem with Twitter is that the core needed addresses is only for like people like us. And like, it doesn't address the need for a whole bunch of other people on the planet. And if they wanted it to be more valuable, then they would need to do…”
Dec 29, 2022 bearish
Aug 23, 2023 positive
Sep 7, 2023 positive
Puri: Six viral tweets drove most of my first 400K followers
“I basically had like six viral tweets that grew me to like almost 400,000 followers. It was literally just six tweets, basically. The bulk of the growth. It's like the clubhouse one, the metaverse one, this one about Elon Musk, this other one.”
Sep 19, 2023 positive
Nov 27, 2023 positive
Jan 24, 2024 positive
Founders Should Only Emulate Elon Musk 15% of the Time
“The trick with Elon Musk is you only want to be Elon Musk, like, 15% of the time in your company, right? When you're establishing the vision of, like, thinking big about what you're doing. He's amazing. You want to channel your inner Elon when you are You know…”
Mar 8, 2024 neutral
Mar 8, 2024 neutral
Puri: Musk attempted a $500M emergency bid to block Google buying DeepMind
“Elon then went to the PayPal co-founder, this guy, Luke Nosek, and tried to quickly like emergency raise, five hundred million dollars to buy DeepMind instead of Google, just to keep it out of the hands of Google. And he fails, he can't pull the deal together …”
Mar 8, 2024 positive
Mar 8, 2024 neutral
Mar 20, 2024 positive
Fried: Elon Musk's fast problem-solving reduces risk rather than being reckless
“So that might seem reckless. And I think it was positioned or pitched almost as reckless in the book. To me, that's like, Common sense, fundamental, smart problem solving. And you think about all the other risks it saves, and all the other things it prevents, …”
Jun 21, 2024 positive
Aug 7, 2024 positive
You aren't cutting enough unless you add back 10% of deleted items
“If we are not adding back at least 10% of the time, the thing that we removed, either a process in the company, a role in the company, or a part of the product, a feature of the product, if we're not adding back at least 10% of the time, That means we have not…”
Aug 7, 2024 positive
Aug 28, 2024 neutral
Oct 10, 2024 positive
Elon Musk recruited Tim Urban directly for deep dives on his companies
“Elon basically says, I would love for you to write. I, he's like a bunch of people want to interview me. You know, they want me on 60 minutes. They want me on this. They want me on that. But I actually want you to write about what we're doing with AI, with Neu…”
Nov 2, 2024 neutral
Donald Trump Outsourced Presidential Ground Game to Elon Musk's America PAC
“And the campaign has made a decision to effectively outsource a lot of that You know, what people call ground game or field organization, but the real boots on the ground part of campaigning to America PAC, which is the Elon Musk funded super PAC.”
Jan 16, 2025 bullish
Feb 17, 2025 negative
Feb 17, 2025 negative
Parr: Musk lacks grace and maturity when slashing federal jobs
“And for Elon, I'm like, do what you gotta do, but can you not be so smug about it and like have some like fucking grace when you're like doing some of these things, even if those things are good, and I agree with them, I just wish that like the maturity level …”
Feb 17, 2025 bullish
Feb 17, 2025 negative
Feb 17, 2025 neutral
Feb 17, 2025 bullish
Apr 17, 2025 positive
Sep 10, 2025 positive
Oct 17, 2025
Dec 1, 2025 positive
Dec 1, 2025 positive
Horowitz: Top Founders Like Zuckerberg and Musk Understand People Exceptionally Well
“The ones who truly
Don't understand people are, don't actually turn out to be good CEOs. Like they don't get to that level. Like you can, you know, you can make fun of Larry Page or Elon or Zuck or so forth, but they are actually very smart about people.”
Jan 19, 2026 positive
DeepMind is the reason OpenAI and ChatGPT exist
“DeepMind got bought by Google, and DeepMind is basically Google's AI play, and the DeepMind team, which was basically a research team that was building AI, is the reason that OpenAI exists. It is the reason that ChatGPT exists. It is the reason Elon is interes…”
Jan 19, 2026 positive
Puri: Elon Musk became DeepMind's second significant backer
“The second backer, I think, the second significant backer was Elon Musk. So Thiel tells Elon about this. Elon meets Demis. Demis says that, that big dog line of basically like, I'm working on the most important thing in the world. Elon, you know, is like, wait…”
Feb 18, 2026 neutral
Feb 18, 2026 negative
Musk: Controlling silicon intelligence a million times smarter than biology is foolish
“I'm just trying to be realistic here. If we have, if AI intelligence is vastly more, if AI is like, You know, let's say that there's a million times more silicon intelligence than there is biological. It's, I think it's, it would be foolish to assume that, tha…”
Feb 18, 2026 neutral
Feb 18, 2026 positive
Puri: Founders must balance long-term mission patience with short-term task urgency
“Yeah, I think it's sort of a, like long-term patience, as in you're not gonna give up, and you're gonna stay at it. I think short-term maniacal sense of urgency is, you know, on the task. So it's like patient with the mission and maniacal about the task is, is…”
Apr 9, 2026 positive
Musk tests candidates by deeply interrogating problems he already understands
“So, his hiring method is he wants to determine whether or not you can do world-class work, and his method is to interrogate a particular problem and go super deep on it. And it's, Better if he tries to skew it to a problem that he knows.”
Apr 9, 2026 positive
Musk instituted a strict three-sentence email rule for problem-solving at Tesla
“We actually had this a bit of a game for a while. I think it was just his idea. He's like, let's try to get down to three sentence emails. What is the problem? What's your analysis of the root cause and what's your proposed solution? And he's like, I think we …”
Apr 9, 2026
Musk slept at the factory while Tesla struggled with Model X doors
“When I started at Tesla, we were having a super big problem producing Model Xs and getting the Falcon wing doors to fit. And Elon and I had shared this favorite book, The Goal, which is all about manufacturing process. And he grabbed me one day. He said, okay,…”
Apr 22, 2026 positive
Musk: Aging is a solvable problem governed by a synchronizing biological clock
“I do think it is a very solvable problem. When we figure out what causes aging, I think we'll find it's incredibly obvious. It's not a subtle thing. The reason I say it's not a subtle thing is because all the cells in your body pretty much age at the same rate…”