What makes the journey remarkable isn't just the numbers. It's the timeline. More than two decades of building, reinvesting, taking risks, and betting on industries most people thought were impossible.

Elon Musk often says that starting a company is like “staring into the abyss and eating glass.” His point is that entrepreneurship is far harder than most people expect. In Musk’s view, founders should only start a company if they are deeply passionate about solving a problem, as the challenges, setbacks, and uncertainty can be overwhelming. He advises entrepreneurs to focus relentlessly on creating a great product, seek honest feedback, and hire exceptional people. Rather than chasing trends or quick profits, Musk believes successful companies are built by solving real problems better than anyone else and persisting when others would quit.

Elon Musk: Optimus Will Be Bigger Than the iPhone At Tesla’s 2025 shareholder meeting, Elon Musk positioned Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot, as the biggest product launch of all time, larger than smartphones in impact and scale. He claims it will have the fastest production ramp of any complex manufactured product, targeting one million robots per year initially and scaling to ten million. His vision: every human will want a personal robot, with multiple industrial units for every household. Musk argues Optimus will surpass the best human surgeons in precision and perform procedures beyond human capability. Tesla’s real breakthrough isn’t the car; it’s positioning itself as a robotics and AI company reshaping labor and healthcare.

"I think if we operate with extreme urgency, then we have a chance of making life multi-planetary. It’s still just a chance, not for sure. If we don’t act with extreme urgency, that chance is probably zero” —Elon Musk.

Elon Musk on Avoiding a ‘Terminator’ Future Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Elon Musk argued that artificial intelligence and robotics are the key technologies that could dramatically expand the global economy over the coming decades. Musk said that while society must be extremely careful about the development of advanced AI and autonomous robots, the potential benefits are enormous if the technologies are developed safely. Referencing the Terminator films, he joked that while he enjoys the movies, humanity does not want to find itself living inside one.

Tesla Full Self-Driving just delivered another impressive real-world demonstration of autonomous driving technology 🚗🤖 Running on FSD HW4 (v14.3.2), the Tesla detected unexpected debris on the highway, smoothly reduced speed from 72 mph, and executed a controlled evasive maneuver under an overpass—all while maintaining stability and lane awareness. What’s even more impressive is how naturally the system handled the situation.

Rather than descending engines-first like a traditional rocket, Starship falls horizontally through the atmosphere using its massive surface area as a drag device to bleed off speed before landing. @grok why does this matter?

When Elon was one failure away from losing it all 🚀 By late 2008, both Tesla and SpaceX were running out of time. Tesla was burning through cash during the financial crisis, while SpaceX had already seen three Falcon 1 launches fail. Elon Musk had invested nearly everything he had to keep both companies alive. The fourth Falcon 1 launch was a make-or-break moment. Another failure could have ended SpaceX and changed the future of both companies forever. The launch succeeded, giving SpaceX the breakthrough it needed. The lesson is simple: some of the biggest success stories are built when failure seems closest. Persistence often matters most when the odds look worst. What’s a challenge you’re glad you didn’t quit on?

Elon Musk: The real man of the people. He sleeps on factory floors, tweets at 3 AM, fights censorship, and builds EVs, Starlink, and Mars rockets for all of us. While elites talk, he delivers.

Elon Musk: America is the central pole holding up Western civilization. If that pole fails, nothing else matters. “If America is not strong, if the West is not strong, then nothing else matters. The companies that I run don’t matter. America is the central pole holding up the tent that is Western civilization. If that pole fails, nothing else matters.”