Elon Musk

“His 'Colossus 2' data center in Mississippi has merrily installed dozens of gas turbines without the required permits, spewing noise and pollution on nearby communities.”

“The actual source of advantage is an unusual internal relationship with loss and low approval-seeking that allows him to hold unpopular positions until they become obviously correct.”

“Terafab doesn't need to ship a single chip to change anything about the current negotiation. It only needs to be credible.”

“When there's only 4% of the float trading, only 4% of the shares trading, it's so thinly traded that something like a gamma squeeze where you have this forced buying reinforced loop can happen very quickly... nothing matters until the lockup's gone”

“Could merge SpaceX and Tesla into a roughly $4 trillion tech conglomerate spanning rockets, satellites, AI, electric vehicles, batteries, solar, X, robotaxis, and humanoid robots.”

“NASA tapped Relativity Space to build Mars-orbiting spacecraft by 2028, potentially making it the first private company to reach the Red Planet before Elon Musk's SpaceX.”

“SpaceX Soars to $2.7TRN”

“SpaceX launched history's largest IPO, raising $75 billion... instantly positioned it among the world's most valuable firms.”

“While the market celebrated the $1.8T valuation, the article subtly flags that personal-brand-driven valuations introduce governance fragility that the market has not fully priced.”

“SpaceX shares jumped 20% on their first full day of trading after the company's record IPO, closing at $192.50 and extending gains after Elon Musk said the company 'might be able to reach approximately' $1 trillion in revenue in 2030.”

“xAI also suffered its second consecutive legal loss against OpenAI.”

“A first principles approach to everything and a flexibility that when you have new data you can easily change your mind.”

“His style is to just always look at the limiting problem and just ignore everything else... You have to be really good at ignoring even important things, which are distractions to your core objective right now.”

“Back at Founders Fund we did the deal in 2008. 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 know Elon is the exception to the rule. Part of it is I think he can raise magical, unlimited amounts of capital, which helps. But then he does not start in humble places at all.”

“Elon is probably like a — it's just a first principles approach to everything and the flexibility that when you have new data you can easily change your mind. That's the core of it.”

“JPMorgan is hosting about 250 newly wealthy SpaceX employees tonight at its new Park Avenue headquarters after Jamie Dimon personally pitched Elon Musk on staging a dinner... as the bank works to cultivate a wave of potential wealth-management clients.”

“Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire on paper after SpaceX's public-market debut, with his stake in the rocket company — combined with his Tesla holdings and SpaceX's first-day stock pop — pushing his net worth above $1 trillion.”

“SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said a merger with Tesla 'might make Elon's life a little easier,' adding fuel to speculation that Musk could eventually combine the two public companies.”

“SpaceX shares jumped as much as 30% in their Nasdaq debut, pushing the company's market value to nearly $2.3 trillion and making it the sixth most valuable public company in the U.S.”

“'I gave SpaceX a less than 10% chance of succeeding at all,' he said. 'Let me tell you, if people had told me this was gonna happen, I was like, man, you must be smoking some really good crack, because I think this company's gonna fail.'”

“Twitter's ad business is 40% the size of old Twitter. So X advertising is at $1.8 billion now. It's down $100 million from last year.”

“The biggest risk is that he dies.”

“He owns 42% of the company... he has 85% of the voting control. Unbelievable.”

“SpaceX going public at $1.75 trillion. $18B revenue, $6.6B adjusted EBITDA, losing $2.5B on a GAAP basis.”

“Basically if you look at when you have a satellite in space, it's powered by the sun. You don't need any cooling because space has like a radiative cooling mechanism... streaming AI tokens from space is going to be far cheaper and more effective than any land buildout of data centers.”

“The SpaceX bet isn't just that xAI will catch up, but that what they're all racing toward is as massive a shift in the economy as the tech industry has been predicting.”

“He just turned into Airbnb. He started renting out Colossus to Anthropic and to Google. And so just in the last two months, they announced two deals that I think are combined worth like $20 billion or more. A billion dollars a month.”

“SpaceX priced at $135/share, raising $75B in 'the largest public offering ever' at a ~$1.75T valuation.”

“TerraFab is basically his way of getting ahead of what he believes is like the chip bottleneck in the world, which is there needs to be more chip production, ideally in the United States.”

“Elon Musk — CEO of SpaceX and Tesla; founder of multiple companies”

“SpaceX is about to go public, 24 years and 30 billion VC dollars after being founded. Elon Musk's company yesterday raised $75 billion in the largest IPO of all time.”

“Everything you see at SpaceX now — Starship, Starlink, space data centers, going to the moon — people think Musk came up with these randomly one night while bored on X. But these possible paths were all discussed more than a decade ago at SpaceX.”

“Fund manager and longtime Musk-bear Jim Chanos threw cold water on the whole idea, telling the New York Times that the SpaceX IPO feels like a 'don't look at the man behind the curtain' situation.”

“It's an ironic statement considering that the man behind the curtain is the reason people believe it's possible at all.”

“Work is already under way, by startups like Starcloud and Cowboy Space Corp., and tech giants like SpaceX and Google.”

“If you told Elon you improved efficiency by 30%, Elon would tell you to get out. You haven't been thinking at all.”

“Tesla does physical AI — robots, autonomous driving. Neuralink does brain-computer interfaces. Perhaps that is the ultimate interface between humans and AI. Boring Company — in high-radiation outer space environments, humans will need to live underground. Perhaps all of Musk's companies are serving one single grand plan.”

“Investor demand for SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO overwhelm[ed] concerns about his increasingly incendiary political rhetoric on X.”

“He's really good at building the machine that builds the machine. So he's basically the, what he's the best at is building factories at this point.”

“I think he's just envious. OpenAI also... I won't say too much trash talking.”

“He's kind of short-circuited the price discovery process, and instead, we're not doing price discovery, I'm telling you the answer, and the only question is how much of it do you want to buy at that price.”

“Did Elon have the acquisition of the year buying Cursor for what will be 10 times end of year revenue?”

“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... There's never been anybody like that in the history of this world.”

“In January 1st, you could have said, look at all those data centers and you don't have a foundation model. You're screwed. Here we are June 9th and he can say, I have a 24 billion dollar outsource business.”

“the largest IPO roadshow in history at $1.77T valuation, $75B raise, pre-priced at $135/share”

“Did Elon have the acquisition of the year buying Cursor for what will be 10 times end of year revenue? Looks a pretty prescient buy if they're going to hit target.”

“Musk has undeniable market magic. Bet against him at your portfolio's peril. He's also a keyman risk. If Musk were no longer leading SpaceX, a lot of investor enthusiasm dissipates. Premium goes poof.”

“It's a foregone conclusion that SpaceX will raise at least $85 billion in its record-wrecking IPO, with pricing set for Thursday and first trades for Friday.”

“He's very detail-oriented. Like, he gets into details of everything... I do that, too, at Exa... He's very good at memetic, like, names and, like, inspiring through, like, memetic things.”