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🇺🇸🇨🇳 CHINA HAS ITS OWN "HYPERLOOP", ELON ADVISES AMERICA TO DO THE SAME Imagine blasting through a tube at 620 mph like you’re in a real-life video game, and in 9 minutes, you’re in another city. That’s what China’s cooking up, a maglev train in a low-vacuum tube that’s...

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🇯🇵 Japan is spending $67B to build a high-speed train that floats. The Chuo Shinkansen Maglev line will get you from Tokyo to Osaka faster than a flight will (door-to-door) at up to 375 mph. They have wheels like other trains do, but magnetic levitation lifts them off the track entirely, eliminating friction and noise simultaneously. The ultimate challenge lies in the terrain. Because the route cuts straight through the Japanese Alps, nearly 90% of the line will run deep underground. To make a train float, engineers first have to move mountains. Source: The B1M YT
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🇯🇵 Japan is spending $67B to build a high-speed train that floats. The Chuo Shinkansen Maglev line will get you from Tokyo to Osaka faster than a flight will (door-to-door) at up to 375 mph. They have wheels like other trains do, but magnetic levitation lifts them off the track entirely, eliminating friction and noise simultaneously. The ultimate challenge lies in the terrain. Because the route cuts straight through the Japanese Alps, nearly 90% of the line will run deep underground. To make a train float, engineers first have to move mountains. Source: The B1M YT

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Elon Musk explains the raw truth on China’s manufacturing edge and why Optimus is America’s real shot at staying competitive “China is a manufacturing powerhouse next level. If you take refining of ore, I’d say roughly China does twice as much ore refining on average as the rest of the world combined Like, we actually do rare earth ore mining in the U.S., send the rock… we put it on a train, and then put it on a boat to China, that goes on another train, and goes to the rare earth refiners in China who then refine it, put it into a magnet, put it into a motor subassembly, and then send it back to America So, we’re really missing a lot of ore refining in America. We kind of need Optimus, frankly, to build ore refineries. We definitely can’t win with just humans because China has four times our population… the average work ethic in China is higher than in the U.S. So we can’t win on the human front, but we might have a shot at the robot front”

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Elon Musk: “China is a manufacturing powerhouse next level. If you take refining of ore, I’d say roughly China does twice as much ore refining on average as the rest of the world combined Like, we actually do rare earth ore mining in the U.S., send the rock… we put it on a train, and then put it on a boat to China, that goes on another train, and goes to the rare earth refiners in China who then refine it, put it into a magnet, put it into a motor subassembly, and then send it back to America So, we’re really missing a lot of ore refining in America. We kind of need Optimus, frankly, to build ore refineries. We definitely can’t win with just humans because China has four times our population… the average work ethic in China is higher than in the U.S. So we can’t win on the human front, but we might have a shot at the robot front”

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And now I’m here on a Metropolitan Line tube train to London. I tell you what; Amersham was absolutely lovely. The old bit. I had a few pints in the Saracens Head and the landlord kindly ordered me a cab here to the station. You don’t get that sort of service in most of London. But also, it’s the human interaction. In the middle of London, you order an Uber, or walk outside and hail a cab. There’s no speaking to anyone involved. Anyway, in this video I take you on a walk the whole length of the tube train and I think I counted three people. Also, we discover that tube trains are really, really long. I should have been sponsored for this walk.

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This is the best video you will see today. No questions asked. They are being terrorised and being given a taste of their own medicine and they don’t like it. This is what we’ve had to put up with for years because they are here. Living in constant fear of attack in our own country because of these people. If anyone is upset by this you are nothing more than a Christianophobe. Suck it up and get on with it. That’s what we have to do too. Up the Irish 🇮🇪💪
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This is the best video you will see today. No questions asked. They are being terrorised and being given a taste of their own medicine and they don’t like it. This is what we’ve had to put up with for years because they are here. Living in constant fear of attack in our own country because of these people. If anyone is upset by this you are nothing more than a Christianophobe. Suck it up and get on with it. That’s what we have to do too. Up the Irish 🇮🇪💪

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KEVIN MCCARTHY: ELON IS MAKING AMERICA STRONGER “I did not think it was possible for the Democrats to even get worse messaging than when they attacked the cuts at USAID on the transgender operas in other countries. But now they want to attack Elon while they drive his Teslas. One of the things Elon has cut is the subsidy to buy Teslas—he's hurt his own business to help the country. Every other leader in every other country would love to have Elon in their country helping them build missiles, being able to go up to space and come back, and bringing electric cars. Instead of attacking Elon, Democrats should join with him if they ever want to get back into the majority. Before Elon Musk, we [were not building] a rocket engine in America. He went out and did it himself so we could go. We have astronauts stuck in space, we need Elon to go get them. We have a disaster in America, we need Starlink. Elon creates something and helps the government in that process. He makes America stronger. And now they want to attack him because he's looking out for the hardworking taxpayer. That should be their job as elected officials. They won't do it, and he's volunteering to do it. He should be given a medal.” Source: Fox News, February 27, 2025

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Elon Musk on how to get people to believe in your startup “If you think about a company, a company is a group of people that are organized to create a product or service. So in order to create such a thing, you have to convince others to join you in your effort.” But, as Elon explains, this is hard in the beginning: “In the beginning, there will be few people who believe in you or what you’re doing. But then over time — as you make progress — the evidence will build and more and more people will believe in what you’re doing.” So, Elon argues, the first thing you should do when starting a company is create a good demo or mock-up so that people can really envision what it’s about. “Try to get to that point as soon as possible, and then iterate to make it as real as possible, as fast as possible.” A good example of this is the Tesla Roadster. Tesla debuted the concept vehicle in 2006 with a famous photograph of co-founder J. B. Straubel driving California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Tesla was a long way from mass-producing the Roadster at any level of affordability, but the demo made their vision more real and helped Tesla secure additional funding. This funding bought the company more time and resources to deliver its first 500 vehicles between February 2008 and June 2009. Video source: Computer History Museum (2013)
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Elon Musk on how to get people to believe in your startup “If you think about a company, a company is a group of people that are organized to create a product or service. So in order to create such a thing, you have to convince others to join you in your effort.” But, as Elon explains, this is hard in the beginning: “In the beginning, there will be few people who believe in you or what you’re doing. But then over time — as you make progress — the evidence will build and more and more people will believe in what you’re doing.” So, Elon argues, the first thing you should do when starting a company is create a good demo or mock-up so that people can really envision what it’s about. “Try to get to that point as soon as possible, and then iterate to make it as real as possible, as fast as possible.” A good example of this is the Tesla Roadster. Tesla debuted the concept vehicle in 2006 with a famous photograph of co-founder J. B. Straubel driving California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Tesla was a long way from mass-producing the Roadster at any level of affordability, but the demo made their vision more real and helped Tesla secure additional funding. This funding bought the company more time and resources to deliver its first 500 vehicles between February 2008 and June 2009. Video source: Computer History Museum (2013)

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27,436 views • 1 year ago

🇨🇳🇺🇸 ELON: CHINA HAS IMMENSE TALENT, BUT DEEPSEEK IS NOT AN AI REVOLUTION “There are a lot of very smart and very motivated engineers in China, and you should expect that China will come up with many great things. For most of human history, China has been the most powerful nation on earth, so they see their rise as a return to normal. DeepSeek is impressive, but it’s not a complete revolution in AI—xAI and others will soon release better models.” Source: Tsarathustra
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🇨🇳🇺🇸 ELON: CHINA HAS IMMENSE TALENT, BUT DEEPSEEK IS NOT AN AI REVOLUTION “There are a lot of very smart and very motivated engineers in China, and you should expect that China will come up with many great things. For most of human history, China has been the most powerful nation on earth, so they see their rise as a return to normal. DeepSeek is impressive, but it’s not a complete revolution in AI—xAI and others will soon release better models.” Source: Tsarathustra

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🇺🇸 ELON: YOU OWE IT TO TRUMP AND THE COUNTRY TO SHOW UP "Trump needs this vote of yours in order to get his agenda passed. There’s no reason why any one of those 1,700,000 Wisconsinites should not go out to vote today for Brad Schimmel. It isn’t just a vote for a candidate. It’s a vote for the future of the country." Source: America, Elon Musk
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🇺🇸 ELON: YOU OWE IT TO TRUMP AND THE COUNTRY TO SHOW UP "Trump needs this vote of yours in order to get his agenda passed. There’s no reason why any one of those 1,700,000 Wisconsinites should not go out to vote today for Brad Schimmel. It isn’t just a vote for a candidate. It’s a vote for the future of the country." Source: America, Elon Musk

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159,329 views • 1 year ago

Elon Musk on raising capital: “You have to show investors that you’re all in” “Tesla almost died in 2008,” Elon explains. “The recession was particularly difficult for car companies, and in the summer of 2008 we had to raise a big funding round. But because of the collapse in the financial system, that funding round didn’t happen and we had to piece together money to keep the company going from myself and existing investors. We were able to complete a financing round that was just barely enough to keep the company going, and we closed it on the last hour of the last day that it was possible to do so. It was Christmas Eve 2008 at 6pm . . . and we would have run out of money a few days after Christmas.” Elon continues: “So while things are going really well these days, I think it’s always important to remember that when you’re creating a company, there are very dark times and it’s about getting through those dark times. That’s the difference between success and failure.” He offers the following advice to aspiring founders: “A company is a group of people gathered together to create a product or service. That’s really all a company is. So you have to really believe in what you’re creating and know in your heart and mind that this is something that matters and that the world ought to have.” Believing whole-heartedly in what your building is especially important for raising capital, Elon argues: “I think it’s important to show investors that you’re all in. For example with Tesla, the fact that I invested all the money I had and was all in — I literally had to borrow money from friends to pay rent in 2008 — made a huge difference to investors and convinced them to invest in Tesla at the same time that GM and Chrysler were going bankrupt. I think you have to show them that you really care, that you’ve got skin in the game, and that you’ve given it everything you’ve got. Then the other people at the company will follow suit, as will investors. I did that at both SpaceX and Tesla and think that’s really fundamental.” Elon also urges founders to only hire people who are passionate about what you’re building: “When you hire people, what you’re really trying to do is convince people to join you in the endeavor. You should hire people who are also passionate about what you’re doing . . . they need to really care about what they’re doing. Then they will stay during the dark times.” Source: Montana Jobs Summit (Nov 2013)
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Elon Musk on raising capital: “You have to show investors that you’re all in” “Tesla almost died in 2008,” Elon explains. “The recession was particularly difficult for car companies, and in the summer of 2008 we had to raise a big funding round. But because of the collapse in the financial system, that funding round didn’t happen and we had to piece together money to keep the company going from myself and existing investors. We were able to complete a financing round that was just barely enough to keep the company going, and we closed it on the last hour of the last day that it was possible to do so. It was Christmas Eve 2008 at 6pm . . . and we would have run out of money a few days after Christmas.” Elon continues: “So while things are going really well these days, I think it’s always important to remember that when you’re creating a company, there are very dark times and it’s about getting through those dark times. That’s the difference between success and failure.” He offers the following advice to aspiring founders: “A company is a group of people gathered together to create a product or service. That’s really all a company is. So you have to really believe in what you’re creating and know in your heart and mind that this is something that matters and that the world ought to have.” Believing whole-heartedly in what your building is especially important for raising capital, Elon argues: “I think it’s important to show investors that you’re all in. For example with Tesla, the fact that I invested all the money I had and was all in — I literally had to borrow money from friends to pay rent in 2008 — made a huge difference to investors and convinced them to invest in Tesla at the same time that GM and Chrysler were going bankrupt. I think you have to show them that you really care, that you’ve got skin in the game, and that you’ve given it everything you’ve got. Then the other people at the company will follow suit, as will investors. I did that at both SpaceX and Tesla and think that’s really fundamental.” Elon also urges founders to only hire people who are passionate about what you’re building: “When you hire people, what you’re really trying to do is convince people to join you in the endeavor. You should hire people who are also passionate about what you’re doing . . . they need to really care about what they’re doing. Then they will stay during the dark times.” Source: Montana Jobs Summit (Nov 2013)

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22,401 views • 13 days ago

Andrej Karpathy explains what makes Elon Musk unique “I don’t think people appreciate how unique [Elon’s style] is. You read about it, but you don’t understand it—it’s hard to describe.” The first principle Karpathy — who led the computer vision team of Tesla Autopilot — has observed is that Musk likes small, strong, highly-technical teams: “At companies by default, teams grow and get large. Elon was always a force against growth… I would have to basically plead to hire people. And then the other thing is that at big companies it’s hard to get rid of low performers. Elon is very friendly by default to getting rid of low performers. I actually had to fight to keep people on the team because he would by default want to remove people… So keep a small, strong, highly technical team. No middle management that is non-technical for sure. That’s number one.” Number two is that Elon wants the office to be a vibrant place where everyone is working on exciting stuff: “He doesn’t like stagnation… He doesn’t like large meetings. He always encourages people to leave meetings if they’re not being useful. You actually do see this where it’s a large meeting and if you’re not contributing or learning, just walk out. This is fully encouraged… I think a lot of big companies pamper employees, but there’s much less of that. The culture of it is that you’re there to do your best technical work and there’s intensity.” Elon is also unusual in terms of how closely connected he is to the team: “Usually the CEO of a company is a remote person, five layers up, who only talks to their VPs… Normally people spend 99% of the time talking to the VPs. [Elon] spends maybe 50% of the time. And he just wants to talk to the engineers. If the team is small and strong, then engineers and the code are the source of truth… not some manager. And he wants to talk to them to understand the actual state of things and what should be done to improve it.” And lastly, Karpathy believes the extent to which Musk is involved day-to-day operations and removing company bottlenecks is not appreciated. He gives an example of engineers telling Elon they don’t have enough GPUs. As Karpathy explains, if Elon hears this twice he’ll get the person in charge of the GPU cluster on the phone. If NVIDIA is the bottleneck, he’ll get Jensen Huang on the phone. Video source: Sequoia Capital (2024)
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Andrej Karpathy explains what makes Elon Musk unique “I don’t think people appreciate how unique [Elon’s style] is. You read about it, but you don’t understand it—it’s hard to describe.” The first principle Karpathy — who led the computer vision team of Tesla Autopilot — has observed is that Musk likes small, strong, highly-technical teams: “At companies by default, teams grow and get large. Elon was always a force against growth… I would have to basically plead to hire people. And then the other thing is that at big companies it’s hard to get rid of low performers. Elon is very friendly by default to getting rid of low performers. I actually had to fight to keep people on the team because he would by default want to remove people… So keep a small, strong, highly technical team. No middle management that is non-technical for sure. That’s number one.” Number two is that Elon wants the office to be a vibrant place where everyone is working on exciting stuff: “He doesn’t like stagnation… He doesn’t like large meetings. He always encourages people to leave meetings if they’re not being useful. You actually do see this where it’s a large meeting and if you’re not contributing or learning, just walk out. This is fully encouraged… I think a lot of big companies pamper employees, but there’s much less of that. The culture of it is that you’re there to do your best technical work and there’s intensity.” Elon is also unusual in terms of how closely connected he is to the team: “Usually the CEO of a company is a remote person, five layers up, who only talks to their VPs… Normally people spend 99% of the time talking to the VPs. [Elon] spends maybe 50% of the time. And he just wants to talk to the engineers. If the team is small and strong, then engineers and the code are the source of truth… not some manager. And he wants to talk to them to understand the actual state of things and what should be done to improve it.” And lastly, Karpathy believes the extent to which Musk is involved day-to-day operations and removing company bottlenecks is not appreciated. He gives an example of engineers telling Elon they don’t have enough GPUs. As Karpathy explains, if Elon hears this twice he’ll get the person in charge of the GPU cluster on the phone. If NVIDIA is the bottleneck, he’ll get Jensen Huang on the phone. Video source: Sequoia Capital (2024)

Startup Archive

1,658,776 views • 11 months ago

Elon Musk on raising capital: “You have to show investors that you’re all in” “Tesla almost died in 2008,” Elon explains. “The recession was particularly difficult for car companies, and in the summer of 2008 we had to raise a big funding round. But because of the collapse in the financial system, that funding round didn’t happen and we had to piece together money to keep the company going from myself and existing investors. We were able to complete a financing round that was just barely enough to keep the company going, and we closed it on the last hour of the last day that it was possible to do so. It was Christmas Eve 2008 at 6pm . . . and we would have run out of money a few days after Christmas.” Elon continues: “So while things are going really well these days, I think it’s always important to remember that when you’re creating a company, there are very dark times and it’s about getting through those dark times. That’s the difference between success and failure.” He offers the following advice to aspiring founders: “A company is a group of people gathered together to create a product or service. That’s really all a company is. So you have to really believe in what you’re creating and know in your heart and mind that this is something that matters and that the world ought to have.” Believing whole-heartedly in what your building is especially important for raising capital, Elon argues: “I think it’s important to show investors that you’re all in. For example with Tesla, the fact that I invested all the money I had and was all in — I literally had to borrow money from friends to pay rent in 2008 — made a huge difference to investors and convinced them to invest in Tesla at the same time that GM and Chrysler were going bankrupt. I think you have to show them that you really care, that you’ve got skin in the game, and that you’ve given it everything you’ve got. Then the other people at the company will follow suit, as will investors. I did that at both SpaceX and Tesla and think that’s really fundamental.” Elon also urges founders to only hire people who are passionate about what you’re building: “When you hire people, what you’re really trying to do is convince people to join you in the endeavor. You should hire people who are also passionate about what you’re doing . . . they need to really care about what they’re doing. Then they will stay during the dark times.”
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Elon Musk on raising capital: “You have to show investors that you’re all in” “Tesla almost died in 2008,” Elon explains. “The recession was particularly difficult for car companies, and in the summer of 2008 we had to raise a big funding round. But because of the collapse in the financial system, that funding round didn’t happen and we had to piece together money to keep the company going from myself and existing investors. We were able to complete a financing round that was just barely enough to keep the company going, and we closed it on the last hour of the last day that it was possible to do so. It was Christmas Eve 2008 at 6pm . . . and we would have run out of money a few days after Christmas.” Elon continues: “So while things are going really well these days, I think it’s always important to remember that when you’re creating a company, there are very dark times and it’s about getting through those dark times. That’s the difference between success and failure.” He offers the following advice to aspiring founders: “A company is a group of people gathered together to create a product or service. That’s really all a company is. So you have to really believe in what you’re creating and know in your heart and mind that this is something that matters and that the world ought to have.” Believing whole-heartedly in what your building is especially important for raising capital, Elon argues: “I think it’s important to show investors that you’re all in. For example with Tesla, the fact that I invested all the money I had and was all in — I literally had to borrow money from friends to pay rent in 2008 — made a huge difference to investors and convinced them to invest in Tesla at the same time that GM and Chrysler were going bankrupt. I think you have to show them that you really care, that you’ve got skin in the game, and that you’ve given it everything you’ve got. Then the other people at the company will follow suit, as will investors. I did that at both SpaceX and Tesla and think that’s really fundamental.” Elon also urges founders to only hire people who are passionate about what you’re building: “When you hire people, what you’re really trying to do is convince people to join you in the endeavor. You should hire people who are also passionate about what you’re doing . . . they need to really care about what they’re doing. Then they will stay during the dark times.”

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65,685 views • 8 months ago

ROGAN: The Media FAILED — If I’m a Source of Information, That’s a BROKEN System “If you’re coming to a cage-fighting commentator and a dirty comedian [for your information], that means the media’s FAILED you. I’m a symptom of a broken system.” “If I’m a source of information, we’ve got a bit of a supply chain problem… It means they failed.” “There’s a lot smarter people than me, a lot better people at dissecting what’s actually going on in the world than me. But for whatever reason, they [media] can’t do it. So how come?” “That’s a failure. That’s a failure of media. It’s a failure of journalism. It’s a failure. And they say, ‘He’s not a journalist.’ You’re right! So how come people are listening? Like, what is that about? You tell me. Why can no one else have these kinds of conversations with people and break it down this way?”
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ROGAN: The Media FAILED — If I’m a Source of Information, That’s a BROKEN System “If you’re coming to a cage-fighting commentator and a dirty comedian [for your information], that means the media’s FAILED you. I’m a symptom of a broken system.” “If I’m a source of information, we’ve got a bit of a supply chain problem… It means they failed.” “There’s a lot smarter people than me, a lot better people at dissecting what’s actually going on in the world than me. But for whatever reason, they [media] can’t do it. So how come?” “That’s a failure. That’s a failure of media. It’s a failure of journalism. It’s a failure. And they say, ‘He’s not a journalist.’ You’re right! So how come people are listening? Like, what is that about? You tell me. Why can no one else have these kinds of conversations with people and break it down this way?”

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

246,727 views • 9 months ago

PBD Podcast on Elon Musk: “Whoever creates the most value for everybody else should end up with the most resources. Name somebody who’s done it better than him. Elon Musk for 30 years has averaged the creation of a multi-billion dollar company every 5 years. There’s nobody in the world who’s ever done that before. It is incredible, and it’s not like, ‘Oh, let me go do a roll-up of everybody else’s businesses’—it’s not financial engineering, it is from scratch: ‘we’re going to build a product to solve something at scale’.”
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PBD Podcast on Elon Musk: “Whoever creates the most value for everybody else should end up with the most resources. Name somebody who’s done it better than him. Elon Musk for 30 years has averaged the creation of a multi-billion dollar company every 5 years. There’s nobody in the world who’s ever done that before. It is incredible, and it’s not like, ‘Oh, let me go do a roll-up of everybody else’s businesses’—it’s not financial engineering, it is from scratch: ‘we’re going to build a product to solve something at scale’.”

Nic Cruz Patane

774,095 views • 4 months ago