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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.”
Microsoft retail staff make better sales hires than Apple order-takers
“You can work in an Apple store and you are an order taker. Go down the hall to the people at the Microsoft store who have to sell a slate two doors down from a Mac, MacBook Air. Those people know how to sell. The fact that they're not starving is unbelievable.…”
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.”
ZURU founder is building an automated house-building factory larger than Tesla's
“He now is building the largest factory in the world, bigger than the Tesla factory, bigger than all that, where robots are going to build houses. Autonomously.”
DeMuro: Cadillac Super Cruise outperforms Tesla, which isn't top-four anymore
“The Cadillac system lets you be totally hands off. Tesla system is not even an, I would say in the top four anymore.”
Tesla's Competitive Advantage Is Overestimated Due to Apple and Google Software
“I just think that everyone overestimated their competitive advantage. And then at the end of the day, you've got all these legacy manufacturers and, you know, ultimately if Apple and Google are providing the interface that most people use, it barely matters, r…”
Puri has a huge chunk of his net worth in Tesla stock
“It's why I have a huge chunk of my net worth in Tesla right now is because that's obviously the biggest product in going to the biggest market in the world.”
Puri: Tesla is best positioned for autonomous vehicles and robotics
“If you take a twenty-year outlook, nobody's better positioned to do self-driving cars and robots than Tesla.”
Adcock: Fisker failed twice due to poor product quality and speed
“Why has like Fisker failed twice in a row while Tesla has just been dominating? ... They didn't get the product and some of the other stuff, right? Same way Tesla did. They didn't get speed, right? And the product quality and the way they introduced in the wor…”
A company's core mission can simply be providing good jobs for people
“Your product doesn't have to change the world. Your product, actually, as a CEO or owner, could be, I create jobs for wonderful people, and I give them a great place to work. And, like, most people just want a nine-to-five, and they want to play softball on th…”
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 …”
Puri: An Anti-Galloway Index returned 23% even excluding Tesla
“Even if you, it says even if you exclude Tesla, which was one of his big bets that he said was fail and it took off and said, even without that one, still 23% return.”
Puri: Autonomous winner will be Tesla or acquired by an incumbent
“If one of them becomes a success, a self, a successful self-driving car company, the market leader will be worth over a hundred billion. It's just more likely. I believe it's more likely to be Tesla or one of the incumbents rather they'll buy one of these comp…”
Tesla slashed 360,000 vehicle configurations after data revealed two main buyer archetypes
“That led to like, 360,000 different combinations of a car that you could choose, which is driving a lot of clicks, plus a lot of decision fatigue for people. And so we went and ran the data, my team ran the data, and we came back and figured out that people we…”
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 …”
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,…”
Puri: Tesla's market cap exceeds the next 20 automakers combined
“Tesla, obviously, worth more than the next 20 car companies combined.”
Puri: Self-replicating humanoid robots like Tesla Optimus create an infinite money glitch
“Once the robot can build more robots, that's the infinite money glitch. So basically, once the optimist can build more optimists, it's over.”
Horowitz: Musk's Tesla Success Unlocked Hard Tech Venture Financing
“Whereas like only Elon could have financed Tesla, normal people can start to finance these things now because Elon has shown that it's possible. So it's a little bit like the four minute mile on that way, I would say.”
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…”
Puri: Passionate High-Net-Worth Ecosystems Like Tesla Enable Lucrative Niche Businesses
“It's like Rolex owners or things like that. Like these high net worth communities that are super passionate and they're locked into that ecosystem. You know, Apple being the biggest example of this, like the big, like the Apple blogs that's that were out early…”
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…”
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.”
Ex-Tesla president spent 60% of his time interviewing job candidates
“In fact, 60% of my calendar was interviews.”
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…”
Saville Earned 1.75 Free Tesla Roadsters Through SEO Referral Arbitrage
“So I earned like 1.75. I had sent more referrals, but I think Tesla was like, all right, you know, we're going to give you 1.75.”
Puri missed out on $5 million by selling early Tesla stock
“I bought Tesla stock very early on. I think I bought it under a hundred dollars a share. And I think if you if you adjust for the splits, I think it's now over like 5000 dollars a share. So I think I would have made about five million dollars on a stock buy th…”