Mike Shurance

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@Chris147Bacon If Tesla and SpaceX were completely eliminated from Elon Musk's portfolio, he would be worth an estimated $5 billion to $15 billion.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

This is why smart people rarely build businesses

Jensen Huang stood in front of a room of Stanford graduates and told them he hopes they suffer.

He wasn't being cruel. He was being precise.

His argument: people with very high expectations have very low resilience. And resilience, not intelligence, is what decides who actually makes it. A Stanford grad has spent their whole life as the smartest person in the room. They've rarely been tested by real failure. So when something finally breaks, they break with it.

Then he said the line every founder should sit with: "Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character isn't formed out of smart people, it's formed out of people who suffered."

He would know. At nine, Huang was scrubbing toilets at a Kentucky boarding school his family hadn't realized was a reform school. As a teenager he bussed tables at Denny's. In 1993 he started NVIDIA in a Denny's booth, and nearly lost it more than once in the years that followed. The character was built decades before the valuation showed up.

This is why he uses the words "pain and suffering" inside NVIDIA with what he calls great glee. He isn't trying to shield his best people from the hard part. He's trying to give it to them on purpose.

Talent gets you into the room. The people who stay are the ones who were broken once and learned they could rebuild.

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@hankgreen They are if you don’t leave them in there long enough

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@muheediva01 That’s a very racist thing to say

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@WolfgangRichtEU An now it’s down…it’s not real money in a bank, it’s market value at any given moment. If the company fails, he gets nothing

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

Perhaps you should help revolutionize the electric car industry, help invent reusable rockets that land themselves, launch the first high speed satellite internet, develop a way for people who are paralyzed to interact with computers with their mind, and provide a platform for free speech….

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@compliantvc Does he get a refund if it drops back down to 160 a share? THINK BUDDY! Seriously....you're better than that!

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@RoyIsThaTruth There’s not enough of the facts here to make a distinction. Each of those have different motives and actions

[MAZE @mazemoore]

2012. Elon Musk on The Gavin Newsom Show talking about SpaceX.

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

You know so little! The value of stock isn’t fixed. If SpaceX doesn’t deliver, the value of those million dollar shares drops to $O. And believe me; a panel of homeless would kill SpaceX within a few months and there would be no one to buy those shares. I hope you’re joking and not serious.

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@dropalltables @elonmusk And rescued stranded American Astronauts

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Elon Musk created thousands of millionaires in his career.

Elizabeth Warren created 1, herself.

Keep that in mind.

[The Transcript @TheTranscript_]

Elon Musk in this 2012 interview:

" My proceeds from PayPal after tax were about $180M, $100M of that went into SpaceX, $70M into Tesla, and $10M into SolarCity and I literally had to borrow money for rent."

$SPCX $TSLA

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@clintoptions Failed math did you???

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@CAgovernor Elon has earned billions helping humanity…you’ve wasted billions and produced nothing but misery!

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@yc Listen duche…that was the 45th Rep!

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@SpencerHakimian Try to at least be honest Spencer!

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@bourscheid You don’t get it and that’s why you aren’t worth a trillion. You have to provide value to bring people out of poverty…you cant simply hand them paper bills.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok is maximally truthful

[Mike Shurance @Shurance]

@ClaireFosterPHD @ToddShaffer Stop lying! They were not all white!