Someone who founded PayPal, built a car company and sends rockets into space becoming a trillionaire isn’t weird. Public servants making $174k becoming millionaires is.
Change my mind.
Elon Musk on why he slept on the Tesla factory floor for 3 years
“I was living in the factory in Fremont and the one in Nevada for three years straight. That was my primary residence. I’m not kidding. Literally. I slept on a couch, and at one point a tent on the roof, but for a while there, I was just sleeping under my desk which was out in the open in the factory.”
As Elon explains, he did this for an important reason:
“I slept on the floor under my desk so that during shift change, the entire team could see me. This is important because if the team thinks their leader is off somewhere having a good time, drinking Mai Tais on a tropical island [it’s demoralizing]… Since the team could see me sleeping on the floor during shift change, they knew I was there. That made a huge difference, and they gave it their all.”
This principle that leaders must be visible is something Elon emphasized in a memo to Tesla employees ending remote work and requiring a minimum of 40 hours per week in person:
“The more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence. That is why I lived in the factory so much – so that those on the line could see me working alongside them. If I had not done that, Tesla would long ago have gone bankrupt.”
As per my calculations, even after adding up every government contract, loan, subsidy, tax credit, and incentive ever received by Tesla and SpaceX, the total comes to roughly $38 billion.
Today, Tesla and SpaceX are worth more than $3.6 trillion combined.
That means all government support accounts for only about 1% of their current value.
Legacy media’s claim that Elon Musk built his companies on government money is complete BS.
Tesla and SpaceX have created trillions of dollars in value, hundreds of thousands of jobs, and are helping advance humanity. Elon helped make America the leader in EVs, reusable rockets, and satellite internet.
@Sajwani@SenWarren Not impossible, but definitely requires factories on the Moon and Mars to achieve.
By then, I don’t think dollars will be used as currency. Just mass and energy.
Elon Musk: “The reason I felt that it was important to acquire Twitter was because I could feel the walls closing in. It was outrageous that they suspended the account of a sitting president
And I think it was only a matter of time before they suspended my account.
Twitter and, well, pretty much all the social media companies, and Google and everyone, are controlled by far-left activists. That’s the truth of it.
How do you know what’s real when it’s all filtered through a far-left San Francisco Berkeley lens?
They just manipulate the truth constantly."