Elon Musk

“The Biden administration clearly turned that down because they didn't want to give SpaceX a political, an Elon, a political win against Boeing in the midst of the, you know, campaign was campaigning for Trump.”

“I think if there ever was a role model for my, sort of, controversial polarizingness hitting escape velocity and just being able to, like, go to the, I do whatever the fuck I want zone, it's Elon.”

“We were at Neuralink filming something for a movie I'm making, and we were there until Like one in the morning, and then he went straight from there back to XAI. And then I had a friend who had a meeting with him at like four AM, I think.”

“I mean, he built a data center in 19 days.”

“Tesla should not be worth a fraction of what it's worth today, if not for The narrative and the belief by investors that Elon, and he is a genius, but like that Elon will just figure things out that no one can predict, including Elon right now, and therefore t…”

“In the case of companies like XAI and Neuralink, it's like, you gotta back Elon Musk if you have the opportunity to.”

“Elon's the best in the world at atoms, and I think atoms are going to be a decisive factor in the AI race.”

“I think Elon and the company have gained a lot of confidence that Starship is going to be flying like reliably and reusable this year in 20, 26. Like that's my strong sense.”

“Well, if that market existed today, I think it would probably be like 90% plus odds on Elon. He's like pretty close at this point. Depending on, you know, where his companies go out he's certainly the favorite. So I would definitely bet on him.”

“I talked to Sean McGuire of Sequoia, who they've invested billions into SpaceX and Elon companies.”

“In fact, that's how I met Elon was through the amateur rocket stuff that I was doing.”

“The Andurl founding team are all so complimentary to each other and different, but respect each other so much and are good in different ways that Not any one of them, not any one of the four of them could have, like, pulled this off, but I do think that the co…”

“When I did get to meet Elon and learn more about SpaceX, it was extremely clear That there was nobody else like him on the planet who could actually pull something like SpaceX off”

“Back at Founders Fund, we did the deal in, in, in, in that was sort of the beginning because at that point, Elon had mostly funded it himself. And we were really the first outside institutional capital.”

“I have a book coauthor and a publisher and a chief of staff, and they all kept coming back to Mark. Don't go there. Elon's controversial, and you shouldn't just call him Elon.”

“When Chathan invested in star cloud, it was like weeks, like we closed the investment weeks before Elon started like, you know, professing his love and bullishness on overall data center.”

“If the product is that special then I think it's probably got enough brand characteristics that it kind of functions as a logo. And so, for example, a Tesla car, like, can you take the Tesla logo off of a Tesla car? Sure. But like, you probably still know it's…”

“And so Elon reserving 30% of the SpaceX IPO for retail investors, I think is a really great thing.”

“Gwen was as driven as Elon, but in a nicer Way that helped the company keep moving forward and not just burn everyone out as they went but brilliant, brilliant. Knew where to focus, what to do, kept things going when Elon would go up and focus on Tesla, the bo…”

“The whole concept of a responsible engineer is what I learned there, and that person owned that part from first requirements all the way through to post-flight. There were no handoffs. There was no finger pointing. Either you got it done, or you are no longer …”

“So, so Gwen was to Elon what Henry was to Nick at Broadcon. Like, Nick was the aggressive, make it happen, drive people to the very last ounce of juice they had, and Henry was pick up the mess that gets created, help people figure out really what they're tryin…”

“Elon was really good about keeping the mission as a forefront focus for what we were doing, and just kind of energized everyone to get it done.”

“I do think you know, Steve Jobs isn't the name that's mentioned as much anymore. Well, maybe that's an understatement. But I think, like, there's a lot of emphasis on, on the Elon mode, which I think is true, but also I think, like, the things that I really re…”