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Ex-Tesla President reveals EVERYTHING Elon does to win Apr 9, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:59 Shaan Puri Cause I'm assuming for the first X hires at Tesla, the key hires, I think I've heard, I've read something before that he interviewed the first thousand people at SpaceX.

The Simplest Way To Make $1,000,000 Isn't Starting A Business (it's working in one of these 10) Mar 11, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 12:47 John Coogan Anyway, first one, Varda Space Industries, helmed by none other than Delian, Asperuhov, and Will Brewery, uh, former SpaceX, uh, valuation, seven hundred and twenty-six million, but, like, one of those multi-decade projects that, uh, could… 4 times in the scene

Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction Feb 18, 2026 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 5:16 Shaan Puri SpaceX, trillion dollar company, XAI, it came into the AI game, like, I don't know, seven years late or something like that, and became a two hundred fifty billion dollar company. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:55 Shaan Puri Yeah, even with SpaceX, uh, you know, he's talking about, like, you know, the goal is, you know, the original mission with SpaceX is to, like, preserve the, he calls it, like, the candle of consciousness. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 33:06 Shaan Puri And now, and now that merged with SpaceX.

How to go from founder to CEO (without imploding) Oct 28, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:23 Shaan Puri So half, half the NASA team was there to watch, and then there was the SpaceX team.

This guy made Millions by inventing the $1 Menu Sep 10, 2025 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 29:19 Shaan Puri Second thing he was talking about, he goes, he was like, yeah, um, he's like SpaceX. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:34 Shaan Puri I think SpaceX, SpaceX is uniquely defensible.

Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi Jun 25, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:02 Shaan Puri He's like, he literally generates businesses like the boring company and Neuralink and SpaceX and Tesla.

Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000 May 2, 2025 · 1 mention

Anti-Business Billionaires: Lessons from Steve Jobs, James Dyson, and Yvon Chouinard Apr 17, 2025 · 2 mentions

From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+ Apr 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 21:06 James Currier Well, when I was working at Tesla, when I was working at SpaceX, like, it's the most amazing time of your life.
  • ▶ 1:06:20 James Currier Uh, but it'll start to close here soon, because remember, SpaceX started 20 years ago.

7 Wild Business Ideas for this $3 Trillion Dollar Frontier Apr 7, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 0:28 Shaan Puri We're talking about how the ocean is the new space, uh, how there's companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, all these companies that are doing cool shit in space.
  • ▶ 1:06 Shaan Puri We got our friend Will O'Brien here, and Will is an Irish guy who talks my ear off about the ocean, and I honestly wasn't thinking about the ocean at all until I saw maybe a tweet of yours, which was basically saying the ocean is the new… 2 times in the scene

5 Conversations that broke our frames this week Mar 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:08 Shaan Puri So SpaceX, obviously, first, but then after that, there have been, uh, more and more companies that have been funded, Varda and others.

The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets Feb 11, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:54 Shaan Puri But number one was create a supersonic jet, because like Elon, um, the way Elon started SpaceX, you've heard the story where 2 times in the scene

We spent 48 hours with MrBeast + 11 Billionaires Jan 29, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:37 Sam Parr It was, uh, another billionaire who was one of the first investors in Tesla and SpaceX.

The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors Jan 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:17 Shaan Puri And this is the guy that made Tesla and, uh, you know, SpaceX and building rockets.

Just found out my neighbor’s business sold for $450M Jan 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:51 Shaan Puri It's sort of like how SpaceX started, because he wanted to send, like, a small plant to Mars, and now he's like, you know,

The #1 Most Underrated Quality in an Entrepreneur Dec 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:44 Shaan Puri Literally the Democrats were attacking him or, you know, demonizing him, sue, you know, doing, uh, suing Tesla and SpaceX and all of his companies and adding more and more regulation.

The Wild Story of Mike Lynch’s Rise From Janitor to Tech Billionaire Oct 10, 2024 · 1 mention

How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview Oct 8, 2024 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 3:31 Elad Gil So, you know, one of my big regrets is, um, somebody pinged me on the SpaceX round when it was like a five hundred million dollar company, and I really was excited about it. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 43:54 Shaan Puri Like, I think the closest thing we have to that is like Tesla and SpaceX, to be honest, uh, these like, that's our moon mission, right?

The $70M/yr Sports Bar + Sleepy Industries Worth $100M Sep 11, 2024 · 1 mention

Building A 100+ Year Legacy + Peter Thiel’s Fellowship + Bomb Hiring Questions Aug 28, 2024 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 7:22 Sam Parr And Elon Musk, at the time, I think SpaceX was two years old, he said, the XPRIZE basically helped create the commercial space industry. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:29 Shaan Puri So early on in the podcast, I think I had one of the ideas, which was SpaceX or sorry, the XPRIZE for companies.

He Sold His Company For $15M, Then Got A Job At McDonald’s Aug 7, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 32:20 Shaan Puri Culture, which I think they're trying to do, you know, uh, you know, Tesla, SpaceX, uh, being based here, I think is really awesome. 2 times in the scene

We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit Jul 19, 2024 · 1 mention

How I Made My First $1M - The Andrew Wilkinson Story Jul 5, 2024 · 1 mention

3 Things You Need To Outperform 99% Of Entrepreneurs Jun 21, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:03 Shaan Puri So I think Tesla and SpaceX would not have happened, um, and would not have happened at least for another 50 years had he not made those happen.

EXCLUSIVE: $3B Founder Reveals His Next Big Idea | Brett Adcock Interview Jun 17, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 28:05 Brett Adcock Like, there's really no good precedent, maybe outside of, like, Tesla and SpaceX, that have done this well at scale.
  • ▶ 34:41 Brett Adcock Like, every time I watch, like, a SpaceX launch or hold an Apple product in my hands,

He Got Fired By His DAD… So He Built a $60M/yr Empire ft. Craig Fuller Jun 13, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 42:19 Craig Fuller So if you want to, if you want like a model of a rocket or a patch from one of the missions, we, we can sell that, whether it's SpaceX or NASA.

From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview Apr 26, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:18 Joe Lonsdale Like, you know, thanks to Palantir and SpaceX, people had seen outsiders massively outperforming and they're, they're more open to the ideas.
  • ▶ 34:33 Shaan Puri Cause he's got like five things that, you know, he's got Twitter, he's got SpaceX, he's got Tesla, he's got Neuralink, he's got Boring Company, he's got so many things.

The Man Who Owns 1% Of ALL Bitcoin Mar 27, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 54:23 Anthony Pompliano And then now, like, the other thing you have to remember is, like, rocket launches are super cheap, uh, compared to what they historically were, and then it's not like SpaceX is, like, getting a rocket just for Varda, right? 2 times in the scene

The Cashflow King: “Here’s How I Do It”, Negotiating w/ Jeff Bezos, Elon’s Cracked Rocket Mar 20, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:21 Jason Fried I might be misquoting this slightly, but there's this example of, of, uh, there's a rocket, you know, SpaceX rocket ready to go launch.

Get LASER FOCUSED for 2024 (in 18 minutes) Mar 18, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:11 Shaan Puri And so let's say you're Elon Musk, your mission for SpaceX might be, um, you know, make humans interplanetary species, a multi-planetary species, um, or for Tesla, for him, it might be.

Elon Musk SUES Sam Altman Mar 8, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:26 Shaan Puri And he does this with Twitter, he does this with, with Tesla, and he's doing it with SpaceX, and now seeing him do this with this lawsuit, it's the first time that I've ever seen him do this in, in public, but it's basically, he's gonna…

Metaverse IRL, Bollywood Protein Powder & AI Gadgets That Suck (#507) Oct 13, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:26 Shaan Puri And 250 or whatever million dollars was the difference of Tesla and SpaceX existing versus maybe they wouldn't have, um, or surviving maybe they wouldn't have because he was able to put the money in.

The 2022 Milly Awards (#401) Dec 29, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:51:25 Shaan Puri It's the unveiling of a new, you know, rocket by SpaceX, and she's just really talented at that, and brands are willing to pay her for that type of marketing.

From Flipping iPhones To Selling Oculus For $2 Billion To Facebook | Palmer Luckey (#378) Oct 25, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 59:12 Palmer Luckey But since then it's Palantir, SpaceX, both founded by billionaires and then nobody else.

3 Profitable Business Ideas You Should Start in 2022 Mar 10, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 7:48 Steph Smith Who did it, but it reminded me of something you guys talk about on the pod, or have talked about on the pod, which is, you know, the power of, like, crowdsourcing things, like SpaceX. 4 times in the scene

Saas Companies that Anyone Can Start with Rob Walling Jan 12, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:57 Sam Parr And he's known for like being one of the first investors in SpaceX.

The Milly Awards 2021 Dec 31, 2021 · 1 mention

Fitness Hotels, Steel-Manning, and Why the Creator Economy is Overhyped Dec 9, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:09 Shaan Puri It's the, it's a riff off of when Elon Musk was at SpaceX, he designed a school for his own kids to go to 2 times in the scene

Why Dunder Mifflin Should Be a Real Company & A Look Inside MicroAcquire | My First Million #203 Jul 23, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 20:24 Shaan Puri He sold his house, he sold his cars, he's living in a goddamn, like, 50 square foot shipping container, and uses all his, you know, he put his entire, like, he, whatever he made out of Zip, he put all, he poured it all in, went into debt…

How to launch a $100M DTC brand | My First Million #194 Jun 25, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:14 Shaan Puri It's like Elon can run Tesla and SpaceX and everyone's like, wow, he's amazing.

How to Buy Distressed Assets, How to Network with Codie Sanchez | My First Million Ep. #176 Apr 28, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 47:53 Shaan Puri So if I see you out there actually making shit happen in your field, and it doesn't have to be a big, you know, so you don't have to be doing SpaceX, like, but you gotta be doing something.

Brainstorming Million Dollar Ideas with Elaine Zelby | My First Million Ep. #175 Apr 26, 2021 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 26:39 Shaan Puri Elon Musk's personal school that was inside SpaceX. 5 times in the scene

MFM #164: BitClout Explained & How To Successfully Angel Invest Mar 26, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:30 unnamed speaker Like I tried getting an early, you know, to say like, uh, SpaceX, like I wasn't well networked then. 2 times in the scene

MFM #162: Why Clubhouse Will Fail Mar 19, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:55 Shaan Puri It'll take some time, but we're on a scale of one to space X. 2 times in the scene
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