Elon Musk
11 statements across 10 episodes · 8 bullish · 0 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Feb 9, 2016 by Tim Draper · said 746 times in 453 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
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brought up most by Nathan Latka (56), Alex Yampolskiy (16), John Lee Dumas (11), Brandon Bruce (9), Anand Kulkarni (9), Ross Paquette (7), Mike Malone (7), Maury Blackman (7)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2024 9 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2023 34 mentions in 24 episodes 1 per episode
- Team of 12 Hits $2.5m in ARR, $64m Valuation for Customer Success Tool. Can they beat Gainsight?
- $50m Revenue Selling Salesforce for Real Estate Brokerages, Beauty of Multi Year Deals with Accelerators
- How to build a $4.5m revenue company with 0 Full Time Employees
- How Chaser hit $294K revenue and 3 person team in 2023
- Coro Breaks $25m ARR, Hits $600m Valuation Growing 300% YoY in CyberSecurity for Mid Market Space
- $4m ARR, Hospitals pay $5 Per Utility Meter To Measure Gas Emissions
- How he hit $2m ARR in 24 months for Ecommerce Support SaaaS, Raised at $20m valuation
- AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
- 16 more episodes that year, every mention in 2023 →
2022 76 mentions in 42 episodes 2 per episode
- We call 30k cold leads per month and land 5% as customers. Here's the playbook
- Bootstrapped Maropost Hits $60m Revenue, 52% Profits, Doing $1.7b Secondary Right Now
- FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries
- Just $10m raised to hit $30m in ARR, how the king of capital efficiency did it
- She saved equity, used dev shop for new PropTech SaaS, breaks $1m in revenue
- Profitable SaaS Hits $100m Revenue, $1.7b Valuation in Digital Identity Space
- How he Broke $10m ARR moving from 65k B2C Customers to 20 B2B Enterprises
- How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year
- 34 more episodes that year, every mention in 2022 →
2021 90 mentions in 50 episodes 2 per episode
- Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago?
- Premise Breaks $20m Revenue, $400m+ Valuation in Two Sided Marketplace Play for Consumer Data and Feedback
- Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR
- UnicornPlatform Bootstrapped, 500 customers, Doesn't Want "Scale at all costs"
- Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
- Electric Companies Pay Them $250k To Track Forest Fires, $1.2m raised at $7m Valuation
- They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?
- $3m in Revenue and $227m Market Cap? How is Resonant thinking about Software?
- 42 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 80 mentions in 52 episodes 2 per episode
- 1667 Top Tech Journalist Predicts We'll All Be Unemployed, Blockchain Takeover, Less Taxes!
- Genially Breaks $3.6m ARR, About to Raise $10m, Competing with Canva
- Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
- Daisy intelligence on track for $10m in 2021
- FundThrough Hits $240m in Invoices Advanced to 2k+ Founders
- GreySuit Hits $4m Revenue Helping 700 Furniture Brands Manage Meta-Data
- MyWifiNetworks Turned Down $5.4m All Cash Offer Last Month, Despite Loosing 30% Due to COVID
- 8base is a next generation backend-as-a-service for powering SaaS and other go-to-market applications.
- 44 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 68 mentions in 49 episodes 1 per episode
- 1440 He's Flat at $25k/mo So He's Making This 1 Big Change
- 1351 Why OwnLocal CEO Turned Down $17m Offer to Keep Helping Newspapers Digitize
- 1549 Why Did He Leave a $60m Revenue "Unicorn"?
- 1383 Treehouse Moves from $24m ARR B2C SaaS to B2B Helping Companies Scale Dev Teams
- 1366 ACT! and SalesLogix Founders New Company Hits $1m in ARR
- 1532 His Hardware + Software Will Reduce Grain Spoilage by 30-50%
- 1480 Social Listening Tool Raising $6m on $22M Pre Money (10x Valuation)
- 1445 Enterprise Teams Use Her to Scale Employee Engagement, $3.5m ARR, $10m Raised
- 41 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 109 mentions in 67 episodes 2 per episode
- 1208 Will This $250m+ Valuation Company be DeFacto Security Rating Standard?
- 982 Marketing and Sales Tech? He'll Acquire You!
- 1121 Webinar King? "We grew 180% yoy Bootstrapped to $7.1m in ARR"
- 1113 His Vegas Raceway Grossed $10m in Y1, Here's How
- 1239 SailThru raised $50m, now profitable, 20% yoy growth, whats next?
- 1213 Kabbage CEO: We've lent $5b to 150,000 SMB's, Will Pass $300m in 2018 Revenue
- 1181 How MovableInk Broke $40m in ARR with 1 Pricing Axis to Drive Expansion Revenue
- 1178 How QASymphony Used Integrations to Drive 115% Gross Revenue Retention, $20m in ARR
- 59 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 99 mentions in 72 episodes 1 per episode
- 741: Exited for $15m, Now Tackling Healthcare Patient Doctor Relationships
- 859 How Kabbage Took Small Business Lending Crown: $500m raised, $4b Lended
- 798: Mobile Ad Tech Passes $100m in Revenues
- 780: SaaS: How Did He 2x ARR In Last 12 Months from $6m to $12m?
- 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
- 697: How $1m in Personal Guaruntees Led to $500M IPO 15 Years Later
- EP 586: Zapnito ACV is $210K, Helping 12 Customers With Knowledge Networks and $650k Raised with CEO Charles Thiede
- 788: Ad Tech Agency Does $17m Gross Profit 2016, $30m VC Raised
- 64 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 177 mentions in 91 episodes 2 per episode
- This is The Worlds Most Influential, Powerful Investor with Tim Draper of DFJ Venture (Timothy Draper)
- EP 373: $1m+ On Green Contracting Company and Tech Executive
- Numbers Behind Freedom Journal Launch with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire
- How Experts Do $1m On Their InfoProduct Launches with Amy Porterfield of AmyPorterfield.com Episode 133
- EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandarian
- He's 31, Doing $700k/mo By Automating The Sales Process WIth $8m Raised, EP 265: Anand Kulkarni
- Afghan War Fighter Now Makes $500k/mo in Weird Market with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire Episode 21
- His company has lended $400m via unique canadian model with Jeff Goldenberg
- 83 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
Everything said about Elon Musk, oldest first
Feb 9, 2016
Feb 9, 2016
Sep 14, 2016 positive
Latka advises early-stage founders to aggressively copy competitors over inventing categories
“I believe in copying like hell. Anyone who has an ego that thinks they're going to create something new is never going to be successful, in my opinion, right? Especially, I'll take that, especially in the early phases. Once you're an Elon Musk, you can start t…”
Oct 26, 2016 positive
Nov 14, 2018 positive
Elon Musk evaluates daily impact by reverse-engineering his schedule every evening
“He said to me, at the end of each day, he reverse engineers his day and says, how did I spend my time?
Which meetings did I attend?
Who did I speak to?
Were there things I could have delegated?
Were there things that I shouldn't have been doing?”
Feb 1, 2019 positive
Feb 16, 2020
Jul 13, 2020 bullish
Mar 27, 2021 positive
Elon Musk told Yampolsky he reverse-engineers his daily schedule for impact
“When I asked him, how does he know that what he's working on during the day is really making a difference? He said to me, at the end of each day, he reverse engineers his day and says, how did I spend my time? Which meetings did I attend? Who did I speak to? W…”
Aug 15, 2022 positive