Elon Musk: There are no lords and peasants at Tesla. Everyone eats at the same table.
“I actually know the people on the line, because I worked on the line, I walked the line, I slept in the factory, and I worked beside them. So, I'm no stranger to them.
There are many people at Tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot.
At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.
We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn't even know what stocks were, we've made them millionaires.
And I just want to say that I'm incredibly appreciative of those who build the cars, and they know it.”
New York Times DealBook Summit, 2023
The first trillionaire in human history
- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders
Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible
Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion
Most people quit when the world laughs at them.
Elon Musk built the future instead.
Love him or hate him…
Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.
Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.
History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.
It will remember the people who did it anyway.
Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀
Billionaires literally paralyzed the Monaco harbor. Over 200 (!) yachts showed up for the latest F1 Grand Prix. Prince Albert II, Kim Kardashian, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Donald Trump Jr., and a bunch of other celebs were spotted on board. Some of these boats even pulled up with $5 million Koenigseggs and Bugattis parked right on the deck.
And watch these exact same people gather at some climate summit later to lecture you about how dropping a candy wrapper is destroying the planet 💀
The same Lewis Hamilton who used a corporate leasing structure to save money on taxes (around £3.3 million in VAT) when acquiring his Bombardier Challenger 605 private jet in 2013? The same Lewis Hamilton who bought the £16.5 million jet through his British Virgin Islands company (Stealth Aviation Ltd) and who then set up an Isle of Man leasing company (Stealth (IOM) Ltd, to import it into the EU and sub-leased it to a UK jet management firm (TAG Aviation), which in turn provided it back to Hamilton and his Guernsey company under charter agreements? *That* Lewis Hamilton?
🚨 BREAKING: Slain 18YO white male Henry Nowak's father just WENT OFF, saying the killer stabbed his son and police did NOTHING despite his imminent death
"Henry told officers he could not breathe **9 times**." 😢
He says the police FAILED and refused to believe him. The killer is now jailed.
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?! BARBARIAN.
"Henry was pulled across the gravel his hands forced behind his back and he was placed in handcuffs. Instead of being treated as a dying victim the police formally arrested Henry for assault and read in his rights. That was the last thing he heard."
"Henry had been stabbed multiple times and as his chest filled with blood he tried to escape. He was chased, abused and filmed...when police arrived Henry was lying on the floor fairly able to sit up and plainly in severe medical distress. With his final words he told officers that he could not breathe. He told them he had been stabbed."
"The police have said they were misled by the murderers and that the scene when they arrived was complex."
"Unfortunately it seems to us the truth is much simpler. The police were told by our son himself and by a member of the public...but the police did not believe that."
"As a family we will not let this go. No other family should experience the heartbreak and horror of losing a child to knife crime."
"Finally, I want Henry to know. We are so proud of him and we love him." 🙏🏻
The law needs to be changed to declassify a Pension as a benefit.
I find it grotesque that having paid into a system all your working life that it’s deemed as a handout rather than something you deserve for working hard all your life.
Benefits are for people that don’t work
Pensions are for people who worked hard & earned their pension.
A pension is not a benefit.
Tennis player Rafa Jodar SHOVES the ball girl out of the way.
He should never play another tennis match again in his life.
What a loser. https://t.co/h6a3RQ8H0a
If a single use cubicle with a lockable door renders it safe for women in a mixed sex changing room why does the same lockable single use cubicle make transwomen unsafe in men’s changing rooms?
I refuse to shop at any store selling women’s cloths that won’t protect the female changing rooms as stated by Uk law. If we use the pound in our pocket shops will stop allowing a minority of loud voices to dictate unlawful policy putting girls & women in potential harms way.
Miracles do indeed happen 🤭
A young German female activist from the latest Gaza flotilla was filmed by media in a neck-brace with her face looking “bruised and battered”, her expression tearful and “traumatized” after being held for a few hours in Israel.
But then…. The Miracle 🤣
Just a couple of hours later, the same young German female activist was filmed perfectly fine, bouncing around, smiling and cheering… no bruises, no marks, no neck-brace, no injuries, no anything in fact.
It is simply incredible the superhuman powers of recovery she showed. Even Wolverine and the X-Men would be jealous 😂
Andy Burnham will let this man into women’s toilets, he sees nothing wrong in it! How do you feel women about this because it would make me mighty uncomfortable
Oh .... dont share this photo you say ... dont show the people the yummy health milk from health grass feed cows.
The most normal thing possible ran by hard working men and women of britian 🇬🇧
..... what every you do dont share this post 😉
Hold on no dogs as part of a transition to Halal certified operations?? What's this another government appeasing mission ? SO you know what to do people .....STOP USING STARBUCKS! PLEASE SHARE TO MAKE AWARE! This is Britain and we love our dogs !
If governments don’t stick to manifestos & start trying to implement dozens of laws not in manifestos we ought to be able to remove them! And demand a new election
I do not feel sorry for any of them. I feel sorry for the pensioners who lost their winter fuel payments, the waspi women, the farmers inc those who committed suicide rather than not be able to pass their family farms on, the 1000s & 1000s of people who have lost their jobs as companies fold, the children removed from their schools & friends… non of it raising money for Britain, just tasty student envy politics & economic illiteracy
If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
Bravo, @Keir_Starmer, for getting in an Adviser on Women and Girls who thinks the definition of women and girls includes men and boys. That'll definitely win back people who believe Labour's a party for smug, lanyard-wearing, luxury-belief-espousing cultural elitists. 1/2