Elon Musk

“The Boring Company to me is crazier than Atoms. Boring Company is crazy. There's one little route in Vegas... That ain't worth 20 billion.”

“The Boring Company, a startup specializing in underground tunneling owned by Elon Musk, is in talks to raise a $4 billion round at a $20 billion valuation.”

“Being able to be competitive on manufacturing by building automated factories and so forth, similar to what Elon has been able to do at Tesla.”

“Elon Musk predicted AI would make money irrelevant within a decade, suggested the Treasury could simply issue checks”

“You had the SpaceX xAI team come out with Grok 4.5, which I've been using. It's a fantastic model.”

“Like if you look at Tesla, there was a very famous documentary called Who Killed the Electric Car that came out before Tesla... But then the reality is, oh, Elon Musk, that motherfucker's hard to kill... But why didn't all those people build another Tesla? Like, there's only one, because there's only one non-fungible, very rare person in that equation.”

“When he first started Tesla, he had made something like $180 million from PayPal. And he decided that he was going to take half of that money and he was going to go to Mars... I suggest that you put aside a little bit of money... No, I don't need to do that.”

“The extreme of course is Elon and Sama.”

“Elon Musk donated $5 million to a super PAC backing billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign for Ohio governor... despite Musk's earlier pledge to pull back from political spending.”

“SpaceX shares have fallen back to their $135 IPO price just one month after its public debut — a notable reversal for a company that generated extraordinary pre-IPO hype.”

“SpaceX debuted on Nasdaq on June 12, 2026, raising in the range of $75 billion to $86 billion and reaching a valuation above $2 trillion”

“SpaceX IPO'd at $2T+, then used its public equity to acquire Cursor at $60B within days — one of the largest venture-backed startup acquisitions on record.”

“She praised Elon Musk for "reserving 30% of the SpaceX IPO for retail investors" as a corrective.”

“Elon reserving 30% of the SpaceX IPO for retail investors I think is a really great thing… — Arun Mathew”

“They basically both believe in if you extrapolate out to AGI, then the Doomers believe that destroys us. And Elon believes that we get this utopia where everything is just done for us... I'm just in a third camp, which is it's like the same progress of maybe both of those two, but with more of a pragmatic outcome, which is like we use that technology to just then create a new set of needs.”

“Elon Musk is trying a new approach, offering half-price Starlink subscriptions to quell data center opposition in Memphis.”

“SpaceX showed investors a prototype of a slim, handset-like AI device designed to run on its own operating system, use a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip, and integrate xAI technology...Elon Musk calls the news 'utterly false.'”

“SpaceX's $1.7 trillion IPO in June represents the largest liquidity event in the asset class's history. Alone, it surpassed 2021's full-year exit value, and led Q2 to nearly $2 trillion in total exit value.”

“I think it's the answer is easy. Elon Musk... I mean, he's running how many companies? A lot. Going between each company and he goes in office and is there in person.”

“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.”

“Now the consolidation phase will begin and we're going to see Tesla and SpaceX merge. And it's going to be glorious”

“Most people react to Elon's trillionaire status as though it represents an extraction of resources. Sacks argues it represents the opposite: a public valuation of a machine that will create future value for humanity”

“New media is unlimited formats, unlimited channels, and the brand is now the person. So it's not like where people talking about like when every Democrat came out and was mad about SpaceX. They weren't. They were mad about Elon because he's a brand.”

“They weren't mad about SpaceX. They were mad about Elon because he's a brand.”

“SpaceX Soars to $2.7TRN”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”