Can we please stop this net-worth porn?
Every “Elon might become the first trillionaire” headline from MSM isn’t analysis — it’s engineered distraction. It reduces real technological and civilizational progress to a single speculative number designed to trigger envy, resentment, and clicks.
Elon’s paper net worth is almost entirely tied to equity in companies that are actually delivering:
- Millions of EVs on the road accelerating the energy transition
- Starlink terminals connecting the previously unconnected
- Rockets landing and reusable
- AI systems being built to accelerate scientific discovery
That wealth is a byproduct of voluntary value creation on a massive scale — not extracted wealth. Much of it remains unrealized and at risk. Treating the personal balance sheet as the main story is exactly how serious conversations about innovation, risk-taking, and long-term progress get derailed.
We don’t have to play along. Ignore the scoreboard. Amplify the mission. Celebrate the actual output, not the hypothetical personal fortune.
The people obsessed with billionaire net worth are usually the same ones who’ve never built anything that scales. Don’t give them the engagement they’re farming.
Focus on what’s being built. Everything else is noise.
Elon Musk on Tesla's $TSLA valuation:
"I agree with Ark Invest and Cathie Wood that autonomy, robotic taxis, makes Tesla about a $5 trillion company.
The Optimus robot, I think, makes Tesla a $25 trillion company."
And Reliability gets better every year - we haven't stopped improving and don't plan to.
Collaboration with service + vehicle data makes it possible to root cause and fix issues quickly. Definitely not perfect, but doing 1% better each day ends up 37x better after a year...
My daughter was just screaming in her bedroom and I thought someone died.. or at least a big spider. But no, @NASA just dropped this banger trailer.
Kids are excited about space again 🚀
Before / After washing the solar panels
+12% more energy, definitely worth the effort
Also I love the "Charge on Solar" feature which just siphons off whatever extra solar energy the house isn't using to charge my Cybertruck
A few days ago, I spoke with an older couple at a retirement community who drove their @Tesla Model Y from New Hampshire to Connecticut using FSD (Supervised) without a single intervention.
I also recently spoke with a 89-year-old woman who uses FSD for most of her driving, saying that it has had a hugely positive impact on her independence and ability to get out and do things.
Stories like these were almost unheard of not that long ago.
This week, I've seen more first-time FSD user reviews on my 𝕏 feed than ever from people who were completely blown away by it. Every week it seems that I'm reading more positive FSD reviews from the media as well.
We're also finally starting to see more and more countries get FSD (Supervised) approval.
Still a ways to go, but it really feels like FSD is going more mainstream than ever before and adoption is accelerating. Exciting times.
A Tesla is twice as likely to reach 250,000 miles as a Subaru “No engine, no oil changes, no timing chains, no fuel injectors, and far fewer moving parts overall” https://t.co/k8iJwbzrrp
@DonaldMills142 Indeed. It’s not that good ideas aren’t important, they’re just overrated relative to implementation.
The IDEA of going to the Moon is EASY, but GOING to the Moon is HARD.