Elon Musk
also referred to as: elon
8 statements across 5 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Nov 17, 2020 by Jay Vijayan · said 141 times in 38 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Mentions by year
brought up most by Siddhartha Ahluwalia (58), Varun Mayya (20), Sanjeev Sanyal (7), Deepak Garg (7), Aprameya Radhakrishna (6), Jay Vijayan (5), Sabeer Bhatia (3), Nikhil Gupta (3)
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2026 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode
- After $9B IPO This Founder is Rebuilding Internet for Agents | Sudheesh Nair, Thoughtspot, Nutanix
- Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
- How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
- How 3 Friends From Coimbatore Run Olympics and Super Bowl | The Untold Amagi Story
- Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 22 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- Why This Founder Won’t Sell Zomato for 10 Years | India’s Top Consumer Tech Bet?
- From 70% Imports to 65% Made in India, India Now Sells Defense Tech to 85+ Countries | Ashok Atluri
- Sanjeev Sanyal On Why India Has No Big 4, Regulating AI & Ending Population Control
- 10 Unicorns, 5 IPOs, 26 Acquisitions – India’s OG VC, Avnish Bajaj On Why Only Founders Matter
- How Ashish Toshniwal built a $350M Co after an email from Steve jobs | Ashish Toshniwal
- From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC
- What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- Does Higher GDP Mean Better Jobs, Housing & Income? w/ Economist Prof. Arun Kumar
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 36 mentions in 8 episodes 5 per episode
- Dear Indians, Watch This Before Moving To America - Varun Mayya’s Brutally Honest Career Advice
- SANJEEV SANYAL On India's East Vs West Divide, Kolkata's Decline, Goa, C-PACE And UPSC | Neon Show
- How Have Indian Consumers Evolved In The Last 10 Years, Ankush Sachdeva, Founder, ShareChat and Moj
- Global Investor Matein Khalid On World Economy | The Neon Show
- Sanjeev Sanyal UNFILTERED - Kolkata’s Downfall, Bihar’s UPSC Craze & The Indian Dream I Neon Show
- Building a 1000Cr comsumer brand in India | Ankit Garg, Founder, Wakefit
- These 90 Minutes Will Teach You Everything About SaaS Business | SaaSBOOMi Co-Founder | Neon Show
- Deepfakes, AGI, Jobs Under Threat & More | DevRev Founder, Manoj Agarwal | Neon Show
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2022 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- The Story Behind Building 100x Entrepreneur Ft. Siddhartha Ahluwalia & Nansi Mishra
- Leveraging YouTube Community to Build a 100Cr SaaS Company ft @VarunMayya Founder, Scenes
- How He Earns 3Cr/Year At The Age of 20? Ft. Ishan Sharma, Co-Founder of MarkitUp
- Building a Generational Company That's Changing the Way Legal Services are Delivered
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Sabeer Bhatia on building Hotmail, acquisition from Microsoft and the journey ahead
- Inside the mind of Jumbotail Founders, Ashish Jhina & Karthik Venkateswaran | 100x Entrepreneur
- Capitalmind founder on Financial Independence ft. Deepak Shenoy
- Inside the mind of Harpreet Singh Grover, Co-Founder, CoCubes, & Author, Let’s Build a Company
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2020 50 mentions in 4 episodes 13 per episode
- What made Elon Musk approach former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan twice in 12 months?
- Inside the mind of Shripriya Mahesh, Founding Partner, Spero Ventures
- Mohit Gulati, ITI Fund on why Hyper-investment is not a sure shot success for startups?
- @unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
Everything said about Elon Musk, oldest first
Nov 17, 2020 neutral
Vijayan: Elon Musk asked me to return to Tesla, but I declined
“I told this to Elon as well. And I said, I told him when I met him, he said Jay, what about, you know, potentially he was kind of indicating, can you kind of come back? But when I told him it is a bit boring for me. I said, I did what you wanted me to deliver.…”
Apr 3, 2023 bullish
Apr 3, 2023 bearish
Apr 13, 2024 negative
Mayya: A nine-share investor successfully overturned Elon Musk's Tesla pay package
“There was one guy with nine shares of Tesla, just nine shares of Tesla, who went And sued Elon. And he said, this pay package is too big. And then the judges actually came and they said, yeah, the pay package is exorbitant and they canceled it.”
Apr 13, 2024 negative
Mayya: US capitalism is under attack and entrepreneurs are vilified
“Plus there's a proper attack on capitalism in the US. People are not happy with Elon Musk. Like somebody like an Elon Musk should be celebrated. Somebody like a you know, like a Jeff Bezos should be celebrated, but instead they're being constantly attacked.”
Dec 20, 2024 negative
Dec 20, 2024 bullish
Apr 16, 2026 positive
Nair: Musk built an AI data center in 8 months, besting Zuckerberg
“What he did do is stand up an entire data center and, you know, work with NVIDIA and get all the chipsets necessary to go stand up something in eight months, which Mark Zuckerberg himself said that he thought it'll take three years.”