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This is the slow beginning of Universal High Income
Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America.
This will be the first of many.
@wholemars I’m right there with you. I don’t want to look back and think I could have been doing way more in my 30’s when I’m 60
Love re watching this to remind me how close Elon came to losing it all yet still never gave up.
Elon Musk went from $180 million to broke in 2008. Then NASA called with a $1.5 billion contract.
After PayPal, Elon’s share was $180 million. He bet all of it on two companies everyone said would fail: Tesla and SpaceX.
By 2008 he was 37, and everything was going wrong at once.
SpaceX had launched three rockets. All three failed to reach orbit.
Tesla’s first car, the original Roadster, had quality problems. The factory was full of cars that couldn’t be delivered. Every month cost tens of millions.
The economy collapsed into the worst recession since the Great Depression.
And, as he put it, he was getting divorced, by the way, to add to that. That was definitely the worst year of my life.
His fortune was gone. When Tesla called investors for money, some cursed at them and hung up. Asked if he was broke, he said: more than broke.
On the Sunday before Christmas he woke up and thought he was closer to a nervous breakdown than he had ever been.
SpaceX had money for one more launch. A fourth failure would have been game over.
Flight four worked.
The week of Christmas, NASA called with a $1.5 billion contract. Elon blurted out: I love you guys.
Two days later, on Christmas Eve, Tesla’s investors agreed to put in more money.
Both companies were saved within three days.
In the middle of all this he met Talulah Riley. They were engaged after about two weeks. She was 22 and walked into a house with his five young sons.
This week Tesla unveiled a new Roadster. The car that almost ended him in 2008 now flips in midair.
Would you have bet everything twice?
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Waymo actively testing the new Ojai on highways here in Dallas! 🔥
Be sure to enter the lottery at the link below for a chance to attend the shareholder meeting in person on December 3rd at Giga Texas!
Tesla has introduced a shareholder lottery for a chance to attend their annual meeting in person on Dec 3rd at Giga Texas.
"To maximize fairness, we are conducting a random drawing to determine our shareholders’ eligibility to attend the meeting in person. The deadline for entry is Friday, November 6, 2026, at 11:59 PM CT."
Enter: https://t.co/AJP1kaKswx
Absolutely insane.
ok... uh so I'm making a game... it's like if GTA & Apple Maps v1 had a baby
And that baby was a custom built engine that streams in OpenMapTiles (plus some other public domain mapping data) to render the entire earth as a playable open world game
Engine is all C++ with Metal (and Vulcan) renderer - which means this thing runs on ALL Apple platforms... yes even that one (ok not the watch... yet)
Right now it's just a sandbox world. No "game" - just layers and layers of systems. Earth scale procedural weather systems (rain, storms, clouds, wind, KpI, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc) which means you can see them coming from the distance and travel across the landscape in a timelapse. And every building has a procedurally generated interior.
There's also tons of vehicles, skateboarding (with skateparks), snowboarding (with ski resorts & lifts)
Also a photography mode with all sorts of fun goodies
The whole thing is a bit mad. Work's been insane right now and I wind down before bed by going through all of the work Claude has done that day, playtesting, writing up new project plans, and then kicking off the next day's projects across my 3 Macs in my house wirring on this all day with Opus 5.5 (maybe save that explainer for another crazy person Twitter screed)
Anyway, curious what you think. Now I can post my little updates here instead of blowing up all my group chats with the weird ideas I'm trying next.
That’s a lot of dough. So what organizations will this fund benefit?
We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit.
It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion.
In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding.
In the post below, we share more details about our new fund.
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Tesla’s biggest moves in 2026 so far
May: Built the last Model S and Model X. Fremont line converted for Optimus.
July: Model Y L (six-seat) launched in the US. FSD subscriptions hit 1.48 million in Q2, biggest quarterly add ever.
Summer/Fall: Unsupervised Robotaxi expanded across Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa. Optimus ramped to hundreds a week on old S/X line.
September: Cybercab (no wheel, no pedals) entered paid service in Austin and scaled past 300 units. Semi high-volume production started at the dedicated Nevada plant, customer deliveries underway.
October: Supercharger network passed 85,000 stalls with record Q3 usage. Powerwall VPP in California set a new record (85k+ homes, 600+ MW). Q3 deliveries of 486k. New flying Roadster demo.
Lmao. Hell of a way to watch Auburn beat Georgia! *do not drink alcohol in cybercabs
My Model YL on V 14.3.12 seems to struggle with correctly identifying speed limit signs. Last night in a quick 4 round round trip road trip, I noticed my car thinking we were in a 55mph when we were actually in a 75 a few different times.
@wholemars Excited for every me day wit my new SI advancements
@WorldlyReviewer If they get mad at me filming them from my own vehicle in public then they can go kick rocks haha
I wonder why they still have to get into the Robotaxis and park them manually at the supercharger. With FSD parking and site map displaying what stalls are available and in service, this doesn’t seem like a super challenging thing for the Robotaxis to park fully autonomously at the supercharger.
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