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6 people · 18 quotes · 9 Feb 2023 to 14 Jul 2026
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Friedberg uses Elon Musk as the absolute example of narrative ability in entrepreneurship.
“And the absolute on narrative is a guy like Elon Musk, who could show up, tell you he's gonna do something and then not do it Mhmm.”
Gerstner predicts significant corporate flight from Delaware if Elon pay package ruling is upheld on appeal.
“if it gets if it if it gets upheld, I expect you're gonna see significant flight from the state of Delaware by peep people reincorporating these other states that, you know, frankly, are pretty friendly as well.”
Baker says xAI built a 100,000 GPU cluster using Elon's physical engineering approach from SpaceX and Tesla.
“x AI decided they were gonna build a 100,000 GPU cluster. And I would say with Elon's unique physical engineering mind, which we've seen play out at SpaceX and Tesla, and now at Neuralink, where he figured out how to miniaturize everything along with really capable teams.”
Gerstner reports Jensen said X.AI stood up data center infrastructure in nineteen days versus years for others.
“what would take somebody else years to get permitted, to get energized, to get liquid cooled, to get stood up that X dot ai did in nineteen days.”
Gurley observes Elon Musk obtained roughly 10% of NVIDIA's quarterly availability for x.ai despite massive demand.
“And he walks in and takes what equate sounds looks like about 10% of the quarter's availability.”
Lutnick says Musk will cut $1 trillion in waste while administration earns $1 trillion revenue to balance budget.
“Elon Musk is gonna cut a trillion of waste, fraud, and abuse, and we are gonna earn a trillion dollars of revenue, and we are gonna balance the budget for Donald Trump.”
Lutnick announces gold card program launching in two weeks with Elon building the software.
“About two weeks from today, it goes out. Okay. Elon's building me the software right now. Yeah. Right. And then out it goes.”
Gurley describes Collison probing how Elon uses extreme time constraints to force creative problem-solving.
“I think the world has been trying to figure out how Elon does what he does, especially from a leadership standpoint.”
Gurley explains Elon Musk uses time constraints like Jobs used physical constraints to force creative problem-solving.
“And I realized what he's doing is the exact jobs would tell them the phone has to be this thick.”
Gurley realized Elon uses time constraints like Jobs used physical constraints to force creative problem-solving.
“I realized what he's doing is the exact jobs would tell them the phone has to be this thick. And then their mind can only operate within that constraint. And Elon's doing that with time.”
Gerstner asserts Elon Musk is the best at converting electrons into AI tokens globally.
“There's no human being on the planet that is better at turning electrons into tokens than Elon Musk.”
Gerstner asserts no one is better at turning electrons into tokens than Elon Musk.
“There's no human being on the planet that is better at turning electrons into tokens than Elon Musk. Right? Let me say that again. Because we focus a lot on the launch business.”
Gerstner asserts Elon Musk is the best in the world at turning electrons into tokens.
“There's no human being on the planet that is better at turning electrons into tokens than Elon Musk. Right? Let me say that again.”
Gerstner asserts no one is better at turning electrons into tokens than Elon Musk beyond launch and Starlink.
“There's no human being on the planet that is better at turning electrons into tokens than Elon Musk. Right? Let me say that again. Because we focus a lot on the launch business.”
Gerstner says Elon has struck deals with Anthropic, Google, and Reflection generating significant revenue.
“He's he's struck incredible deals with Anthropic and Google and Reflection and others. Really smart. Generated terrific amount of revenue.”
Gerstner says Musk struck deals with Anthropic, Google, and Reflection for compute revenue.
“He's he's struck incredible deals with Anthropic and Google and Reflection and others. Really smart. Generated terrific amount of revenue. He's the best in the world at standing up AI data centers.”
Baker emphasizes Antonio Gracias had chapter in Isaacson's Elon biography for his impact on Tesla story.
“There's a chapter about him at the Walter Isaacson book. He was on the field having an impact on the outcome, along with the incredibly talented people at Tesla and Elon.”
Palihapitiya predicts Elon will launch integrated mobile phone service bundled with Starlink and other services direct to consumers.
“I would like to give you an incredible new mobile phone service. It's integrated with all of these other services that you need.”