Elon Musk

“There's twenty-five billion dollars of debt sitting on the business now, and that debt has interest rates on it that aren't super low. And in an environment where so far the, you know, the baseline rate is rising right now, it's actually going to be a shitload…”

“He'll talk about, even if he thinks something has a 10% chance of succeeding, but it's really important, it's worth trying.”

“And the quibble is with his relationship with the truth. And I look at Gates and I look at Bezos, both of whom I admire for different reasons. Bezos in particular, who I consider one of the greatest and most rational capital allocators, the amount of capital t…”

“You know, he has sold eight and a half billion dollars of stock. This was a wonderful way, just like his Twitter poll before to sell stock, to get out of Twitter. Now you could, I mean, sorry to get out of Tesla.”

“I actually think the boring company is not about digging tunnels under Los Angeles. I don't think it gives a shit. I think it's because the only way of inhabiting Mars is underground.”

“Doge is likely to be his currency. What does that mean? It's still decentralized in some method, not hugely so, but yes, he's a large stakeholder in it, but I'm guessing he'll use it as streaming payments for his cars.”

“Twitter, Twitter offered to buy us in, in, in, and, you know, we thought about it in, and I'm happy we didn't because we probably would have gotten fired by Elon cause he fired a lot of people.”

“Most builders are not risk seeking at all. Right? So when you look at founders, like the founder personality type, you have to overlay so many things that are like in the minority to get someone like a Patrick Collison or a Dylan field or a Mark Zuckerberg or …”

“Like in the instance that Elon didn't know how to code, Tesla would have died. You know, in the instance of Naval knowing, not knowing how to code, AngelList would have died.”

“Obviously Elon doesn't work at Tesla and SpaceX at all, and those companies are doing decently well, even though he's technically still the CEO of both of those companies, right?”

“So there is something to be said for the fact that the tweet after, if you add value, if you teach somebody something, it will be seen by more people. Because if you're scrolling down through Twitter, and you avoid, and you see a Nick Huber post, but you just …”

“The current state of the X algorithm is your tweet will literally never be seen by a soul, or you go ballistic with one to a hundred million impressions and nothing in between.”

“Twitter is changing so fast, and I think Elon is, Elon knows what he's doing, and he's chasing engagement, chasing daily active users, and it's going to point him towards a TikTok, Instagram type model. So I'm worried that we're going all video over time on Tw…”

“In fact, a friend of mine was at dinner with Elon Musk a few months ago in Palm Beach, right before the election, and everybody at dinner, you can imagine, was just lighting Elon up with questions, and he was asked, like, who's his mentor, who he turns to for …”

“You get an Elon retweet that's getting 10, ten million impressions, right?”