Elon Musk
CEO, Tesla and SpaceX · 1 appearance on the record.
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He directs operations across aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, electric vehicle and clean energy company Tesla, and artificial intelligence venture xAI. Widely recognized as one of the world's wealthiest entrepreneurs, Musk also co-founded Neuralink and OpenAI, founded The Boring Company, and acquired social media platform X.
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Everything Elon Musk said on My First Million that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
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…”
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…”
The other half of the tape: Elon Musk's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 675 times in 144 episodes on My First Million. 47 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Shaan Puri 478Sam Parr 103Jon McNeill 17Cody Ko 12James Currier 8Anthony Pompliano 6Sasha Issenberg 5Nick Bilton 5
Statements about Elon Musk, by other people (47)
Puri: DOGE is our only shot to escape US debt death spiral
“Is this one of our only shots to get out of the death spiral of excess spending? I believe so, and I cannot believe it happened.”
Tesla and SpaceX wouldn't exist for 50 years without Elon Musk
“I think Tesla and SpaceX would not have happened and would not have happened at least for another 50 years had he not made those happen.”
Sam Parr: Elon Musk will face severe cancellation and Tesla will tank
“One, Elon Musk either dies or he or he gets canceled or he gets canceled in an incredibly like serious way. And Tesla stock completely tanks.”
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 …”
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…”
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.”
Puri: Elon Musk will merge xAI into Tesla
“And then I also think, by the way, he's gonna end up merging XAI with Tesla. Like, he's gonna put it all together.”
Parr: Elon Musk 100% outshined Donald Trump in the Oval Office
“Elon Musk, 100% outshined Donald there. That was so emasculating to have Donald just sitting there and Elon standing up, sort of behind him, like he was gonna come and put his arm, like his hands on his shoulders.”
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 …”
Parr: Elon Musk will become a trillionaire within 3-5 years
“A person worth one trillion dollars, which is what Elon will be in three or four or five years.”
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.”
Puri: Musk Will Lose OpenAI Lawsuit but Win the PR War
“He's gonna lose the legal battle, but he's gonna win the PR war, I think.”
Puri: Bret Taylor forced Elon Musk to complete Twitter acquisition
“He was the board member that basically forced Elon to stick to his offer. He stood up to Elon and basically forced Elon to buy and got an amazing deal for the Twitter shareholders.”
Coogan: Elon Musk's Twitter takeover officially ended cancel culture for founders
“Now that Elon bought Twitter and kind of just like caused enough chaos, like you can just say whatever you want. And there's like, no, I, I've been telling every, every founder I know, like cancel culture is over.”
Puri: Musk Ordered Twitter Engineers to Print Out Months of Code
“He told every engineer to print out all the code that they've committed and they've written in the last three or six months and have it ready for review.”
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…”
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.”
Puri: Musk invested $50M in OpenAI but retained zero ownership
“OpenAI, open source AI that's, you know, a non-profit, and now it's a for-profit closed source company, and he funded fifty million dollars and now owns none of it.”
John D. Rockefeller was twice as rich as Elon Musk is today
“John Rockefeller, he was a tycoon, In the early 1900, and he was the richest man to ever live. He was two times richer than Elon Musk is today.”
Puri: Elon Musk pays others to boost his Diablo ranking
“The Diablo thing, I'm certain is cap. Like, I am certain that he's paying people to do that.”
Puri: Elon Musk is the greatest entrepreneur of all time
“I don't agree with everything that Elon does, but he's an impressive, ultimately impressive entrepreneur. I think he's the greatest entrepreneur of all time.”
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…”
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, …”
Every mention by year
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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 →
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction | Feb 18, 2026 | 25s |
Played on the show (1)
Episodes where a recording of Elon Musk was played rather than Elon taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.
| Episode | Date | On tape | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25% Of My Portfolio Is Tesla Stock, Here's Why | Apr 22, 2026 | 19s | clip played |