You Will Never Look At Elon Musk The Same Way Again…

All right okay is it all good yes thank you I was the science nerd at high school I didn't really get many dates I don't know if men boys rather were scared of me or whatever but I didn't have many dates so I wouldn't date anybody who wasn't if he wasn't as good at math and science as I was and no one was so although my ex-husband was he was better than me at math and science and I hate to admit that but that probably did Help toward Elon being a genius one of my co-workers

was a contract consultant for elon's first startup called zip 2 Elon was upset that this engineer working on the deal you know didn't know the technology well and he fired him so I went in there the next morning and he kind of grilled me on like do you know this subject matter and I was like yeah this is how it works and he was like great you're hired he he works in mysterious ways that Guy this is K you're waking up to another beautiful day in San Jose right when the internet was being created zip

2 was a cool company Elon and I sat across from each other it was like a lab environment they were still inventing the product as they were running it zip 2 a California company that provides online access to information about cities around the country from where to eat to how to get around you imagine the possibilities but the company's founder Is Elon Musk how old were you when you started this company 23 I remember meeting him for the first time he gave me a demo of what he had done which was online Yellow Pages with

maps and directions and he turns to me and he goes it's cool huh and I go yeah it's really cool I'm staring at him he's staring at me and I'm thinking is this like a trick you know interview where they're trying to see like can I come up with something he kind of assesses People and I've noticed he tends to stare at them and it's very can be very intimidating and then I met Kimble his brother yeah zip 2 focuses more on business listings so for example Kimble was much more personal 1995 Brothers Elon and

Kimble are want to be entrepreneurs attempting to build just one of the thousands of startups in the tech Gold Rush of Silicon Valley living In the office and ladened with over $100,000 of student debt they start searching for people who believe in them enough to finance their Venture how much money do you think you've invested in the and family of companies oh I don't know it's probably in the order of $100 million ballpark about on the order of $100 million roughly yeah the first time I met Elon he was pitching zip 2 I remember it

well he and Kimble they were Relatively new to Silicon Valley been there only a few months I just remember thinking they're bright properly self-confident that perfect entrepreneurial mix of having enough self-confidence to be humble enough intelligence to respond to questions in a very Nimble manner my first week I come in and I see two people kind of passed out on a couch okay one was Elon and one was the summer intern we had okay they had pulled they both P pulled An all nighter it turned out that was a pretty common occurrence with Elon and

we'd stay at the office until late hours and then eventually he'd fall asleep under his cube with his physics book as a pillow you know Elon is a unusual fellow he knows just about everything about everything I would say from the age of three I thought he was a genius he would reason with me and he his reasoning was sensible and how do you even do that when you don't really have Much experience I wanted him to go to Nursery School they said well he makes it by 2 days but you really should keep him

back a year because otherwise he'll be a little socially challenged and I said you don't understand I have a genius son he needs to talk to someone besides me and of course they roll their eyes because every mother thinks their child is a genius you know we worked closely together when he was in a good mood he was an incredible fun guy to be With but I remember Elon you know one time it was about 9:00 at night Elon was going around the office looking to see who was sitting in their cubes and there weren't

many people sitting in their cubes it was 9:00 p.m. and his face turned red and he was just really angry that you know the entire company wasn't there in the office at 9:00 at night he worked 7 days a week crazy hours and in that time he managed to still hold a relation relationship with his fiance Elon met his fiance Justine at University they were in the same abnormal psychology class highly competitive with each other Justine scored 97% in the exam Elon scored 98 and they have now been dating for six years a roller coaster

ride in terms of watching Elon go through the trials and tribulations of of working and the toll that that's you know takes on a relationship you know and and you accept that when You're you know spending time with him you're getting a very small part of him because 95% of his mental energy is still being consumed by these problems he doesn't get any breaks from it you have to spend a tremendous amount of your time at work there's no such thing as the 8h hour day in Silicon Valley in any field hi el musk speaking

it's 7:00 in the morning and Elon Musk an iously waits for his prize for paying his dues in the valley he was always talking About the McLaren F1 cost a million dollar fastest production car in the world only 64 made I said why don't you just go out and buy a McLaren F1 and then a week later he did wow I couldn't believe it's actually here it's pretty wild man just 3 years ago I was showering in the at the wi and sleeping on the office floor and now obiously I've got a million dollar car

and quite a few creature compan there is Jan the fastest car in the world I could go and Buy one of the islands in the Bahamas and turn it into my personal Thief I'm much more interested in trying to build and create a new company when we were acquired a number of us were talking about where Elon would be in the future and we said either he'll be the richest guy on the planet or he'll be totally dead broke but there'll be nothing in between Elon invests almost all of his money into his next venture

so this is an ATM what We're going to do is transform the Traditional Bank industry he becomes CEO of a banking company that will soon be worth billions of dollars but whilst away on honeymoon Elon is ousted a CEO he retains his shares but no longer has any significant role at the company you know I think it's not a good idea to leave the office when there are like a lot of major things underway which are causing people a great deal of stress there was just a Lot of worry that caused management came to decide

that I wasn't the right guy to run the company wow what a formative event it's it leaves a work you feel betrayed as a teenager Elon didn't have many friends but he read all the time through the night I couldn't get him up in the morning he read a lot of Science Fiction he would read through the night until he saw me getting up and then he would go to sleep and then I course I had to dress him while he was half Asleep and get him to school what are some of the problems that

are likely to most affect the the future of humanity the biggest terrestrial problem we've got is sustainable energy the other one being the extension of life beyond Earth to make life multiplanetary humans need an adventure getting to New Territory the best reason is so we don't get wiped out something like an asteroid strike uh like plagues or nuclear war of Course if that was to happen humans civilization on multiple planets is a great insurance policy back in the early 2000s I was going to Mars Society meetings regularly the topic that would come up was this

desire to have a fundraiser filmmaker Jim Cameron was a Mars nut himself and had been contemplating amar's movie somebody had the idea of getting Jim Cameron as the featured draw sent out all the invitations and I Have to admit they didn't do real well one notable response from a guy named Elon Musk uh nobody had ever heard of he actually paid $5,000 for the plate and be seated with Jim Cameron he pulled me aside and he said well I have a project I need some help with take a little miniature Greenhouse down to the surface

of Mars to watch the plants grow honestly I thought it was like crazy ambitious but uh well thought out ft down two and a half he was trying to Do something to wake people up okay Neil we can see you coming down the ladder now his philosophy was like great things don't happen automatically one small step for man after winning the Space Race NASA's PL [Music] slowed rocket caring vesda the centerpiece of Russia's contribution to the International Space Station meanwhile other nations developed their own rocket technology launching Satellites and supplying the International Space Station in

planning a trip to Mars musk believes he can also capitalize on the business opportunities that are opening up in space putting America back in the game if you had a satellite then you want to put it in orbit you could fly on a Russian rocket you could fly on a Chinese rocket a European rocket you could fly on an Indian rocket nobody flew on America none of the American companies flew on American Rockets they're like we're going to go overseas cuz there's nothing in America that's cost competitive if Elon is going to get into space

he's going to need to convince some ex NASA Engineers to help him when Elon you know first started talking to me about you know the ultimate goal of making Humanity a multiplanetary species you probably won't use this but you know this is what I thought first of all okay so I'll give you something you put on Camera I didn't quite get his name Ian musk is what I thought he said and I had no no clue what PayPal was he mentioned that seemed like a funny name to me and that he was looking for a

Russian rocket to do an experiment to Mars and and I I was the guy he was told could help him do that Elon Jim and another engineer Mike Griffin Fly to Russia to buy cheaper Russian rockets off the shelf the standard Delta rocket it was about $80 to100 million you could go to Russia and buy a similar size rocket for 2 million we got into it classic military complex razor wire on the top security and guns and finally we got down to where everybody was gathered including the chief designer in classic European style you know

we we didn't just jump into business we started to drink and drink a little vodka and then we'd have a toast you know toast to the Russians toast to the Americans and toast to Elon toast to the internet and So Elon starts to tell the chief designer you know all about his idea of mult planetary species and here's Elon in his in his late 20s and you know they don't know him he he looks he looks like he just walked in off the street and they took that as a sign of disrespect the chief designer

was very angry he he chopped Elon off mid sentence started staccato rushan this is a machine of War this is not a toy for some young kid from Silicon Valley and you know this is Not internet [ __ ] here we're talking life and death then he spit on he spit on elon's shoes he spit on my shoes he turned to me and he said I think you spin on our shoes and I said yeah we got through all that we got on the the Delta flight back to New York Mike and I sat back

ordered some whiskey and we're having a drink we're watching Elon he's sitting two or three rows up from us and he he's on his computer and he's working really really diligently Mike elbows me And he said he said he said what the [ __ ] do you think that idiot savant is up to up there and and Elon turns around and he looked at us and he this is one of the few times he looks you D directly in the eye and he he says [ __ ] you both he says I think we can

build this rocket ourselves and he said I've got a spreadsheet we started looking at it it was remarkable he says we're we're going to build this when we get home and Mike and I just said okay he'd probably try To drink it me and another guy John Garvey we wanted to build the biggest amateur rocket holy go whoa we called it the big freaking rocket of bfr John at one point said there's this Internet Millionaire that wants to come by and see our bfr project is it okay if it comes by this Sunday and I'm

just like oh yeah sure that's okay he was very interesting because he immediately started asking very pointed questions like you know like what what do you have There you know 13,000 lb thrust engine he goes is that a big engine I go what's the biggest amateur engine and he goes have you worked on anything bigger I said yeah yeah I worked on a 650,000 lb thrust engine at TRW he said could you build that engine he said to me and a couple other guys said hey if you guys are in we'll start a company I

said I'm in so I was the first one to sign that's how I end up becoming employee number one at space I remember emailing Elon Again and saying hey so what's next and a rocket company yeah sign me up say your name spell it for me tell me what you do Elon Musk El n m Chief Executive Officer of space exploration Technologies or SpaceX couldn't hire anybody out of Industry cuz all my friends that were in the industry just thought no way am I going to come there you guys are going to fail I think

there's only so much we can learn by looking through a telescope and Eventually we need to go out there if we to find the answer the first time I met him was at a amateur rocket weekend and then later on he came to my house and so I sent the whole family to to the movies go watch a movie we talked for a long time we talked more than 2 hours and when they came back he was still there I think it's actually pretty smart to do this to go to some body and check out

the house right and you know the oval impression is so much more complete if You look at how they live eBay is shelling out one a half billion bucks for PayPal a popular system used by web Surfers to pay their bills the deal joins a month after SpaceX is formed a buyout of PayPal Nets Elon Musk $250 million Elon immediately tells his new group of Engineers they have just over a year to become the first privately owned company to build a rock ET that makes orbit SpaceX relocates to qualine a small island in the Pacific

Ocean there was no power there was no water Plumbing we had to literally bring everything out there the logistics were terrible just trying to get liquid auction there and the Tropics was was quite a feet it was humid my body wasn't really made for that it was work and then work and maybe work everything is driven by schedule that was brutal quadrine was the only game for us at the time but it it ended up being not the ultimate place to be the day that Falcon One launched Elon was stressed at how much money he

was spending yeah it's pretty nerve-racking sort of like seeing my baby go up there you know it's pretty scary St 170 LCR initiate Auto sequence start at tus 60 seconds proceeding you kind of moving towards that laune and then you realize one day you're actually in the controll room and you you're doing this right 30 seconds he was nervous as hell just like all of us 20 seconds that final count And that seconds up to you just like so tense just get it lit and please lift off8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Z

+ 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 Plus plus 7 + 8 plus 9 plus 10 this is the LC on the countdown net Falcon 1 is airborn at this time it only worked for 28 seconds or so and then the engine went out 20 hug one we just lost it [ __ ] we lost it Elon was pretty disappointed and just moments ago the Falcon 1 rocketed toward space off a Small island in the Pacific but just moments after take off the rocket failed angry at the failure Elon blames Jeremy

Holman one of the young rocket Engineers Elon reporting to the Press said the engineer and the technician screwed up well ends up it wasn't really their fault it was if anybody it's my fault for choosing aluminum Bean nuts a quick postmortem reveals that salt sea spray caused corrosion on the aluminium components but Elon refuses to back down Elon wouldn't retract it in the Press and that didn't sit well with with Jeremy I went and and talked with Elon about that and Elon said it's you know it's we there's no going back this you know we're

just moving forward so so he ended up leaving the company so there was intense meetings where let's not fail again he started working with us to optimize the rocket to get as much out of it as possible he was technically very strong even though he was just Learning about Rockets and the one thing I noticed if people were negative they were not in the next meeting he said a a company is a bunch of vectors each person is a vector and they need to point in the direction that you want to go bureaucracy and office

politics and low morale it's almost random vectors he was always about making all the vectors which all the employees pointing in the right direction forward moving forward elon's Ambition for SpaceX can be found within his family history most notably his grandfather Joshua Oldman my dad was very adventurous he actually was driving along the road in Saskatchewan and saw an airplane in the field and it was for sale and he thought ooh this looks good he swapped his C for the plane he became this pilot who flew all over Canada and then flew All Over America

elon's grandfather lost all his money in the Great Depression it resulted in a radical change in his thinking and he became a leading figure in a movement called the technocracy the whole planet Earth is in danger of total Destruction technocracy is a scientific approach to human Affairs technocrats believed in removing all politicians instead scientists and Engineers would run the world they wore gray uniforms held Mass recruitment rallies and even changed their names to numbers such as 1x1 1809 above all technocrats vowed to use science to to solve the greatest problems facing mankind keeping America competitive

requires affordable energy and here we have a serious problem America is addicted to oil by definition we must move to renewable energy we will eventually run out of energy and die civilization will collapse in 2004 Elon Musk invests a $6 million stake in a small electric car company called Tesla becoming chairman of the board really What matters is are we making a difference in the world and for us make a difference in the world we have to build a lot of cars you know until we see every car on the road being electric you know

we will not stop so you know this is really just the beginning of the beginning all right we had nothing the day I started we had an a big empty floor they had a one Craftsman toolbox and uh we had to go to IKEA to buy the desks we had to go onto the dell And buy and buy our computers we crimped our own ethernet wires and we painted the space on the weekend they had a lotus and they had a pallet full of lithium ion batteries that just come in from Korea and they said

we're going to take these lithium ion batteries and we're going to put them into that El lease and we're going to make a car [Music] company every car startup in America since Ford this gone bankrupt there was Rosen Motors there was DeLorean there was Fisker car company after car company and and large amounts of money and a large amount of time would often be invested before before it was like a complete white out that stand of a crushed automobile Elon Musk now has two companies with unproven and highly experimental products look at this electric car

called the Tesla and here we are with Elon Musk also open the door for you there's actually a touchpad Which you can press and enter the well that's too complicated for me July 206 and Tesla now has its first battery powered vehicle the Roadster the only production electric car for sale the United States of any kind my original role was the office manager so I was responsible for basically everything at the company that wasn't engineering we were a startup we were very Scrappy we hardly spent any money on anything but we want to launch the

Roadster in 6 weeks and go I went down to the Santa Monica unveiling event which they did in a airplane hanger a cocktail party with cars driving indoors there's so many things I Like About You in a circle around all the participants silent no emissions it was just a crackle of excitement in the air at one point I got to be in a little small group conversation with Arnold Schwarz eger that doesn't happen to me on a daily basis we'll do 0 to 60 in around 4 Seconds let's go there we go a newcomer with

no experience at building cars has entered the race a zero emission sports car that can go head-to-head with a Ferrari and a Porsche and win very nice everybody was very very bullish people were buying cars I was surprised like I I I didn't know that many people who would just like up and buy a car that wasn't ready for $109,000 at that point I was smitten in fact on the spot bought a roadster I think I was customer number 17 of all their customers behind the scenes there wasn't enough ability to keep the batteries thermally

regulated and they get too hot and next thing you know it's starting to smell and you can you can know the smell so we would cool the battery pack with ice packs but it felt like we had to build the enthusiasm with a promise that was you know maybe a stretch but Elon had a way of of dancing through that $19,000 it's a deal it's a deal and our car is twice The efficiency of a Prius so Prius is a gas-guzzling hog by comparison with our cars it's just like plugging in a hairdyer super simple

yeah to persuade folks like me that eventually all cars will be electric that this is the future so much so that I'm you know believing it in my gut as as the inevitable future is is a rare skill Tesla has taken hundreds of orders for the Roadster I test Dr this one it's hard and Elon has taken millions of dollars from customers But production issues mean that several months on they're still not delivering the cars and now the company is hemorrhaging money if Roadster can't sustain the company by March then that's it and that scares

me we need to get the company to cash flow positive in 6 to9 months but we're screwed like I mean you know each month that passes is literally costs us tens of millions of dollars I mean we need to appreciate that just headed to the menow store so I Want to do a car by car walk through basically rundown of each car what's its status and what are the issues this was save the company he was embedded hey Greg the key fell apart he dug deep in into every aspect of what was going on holy

mackerel most of these roadsters have major faults we have like an army of cars here Jesus I'm looking like we're going to be able to deliver four cars to the sales team this is frightening right now we're facing an Issue which is that it's a sort of a crisis of confidence among our customers where you can only tell them delay so so many times and then they start to think man is this company ever going to get me a car he was talking to subcontractors tier two tier three suppliers sometimes he called me at 2:30

in the morning I'm available 24/7 I called me 3:00 a.m. in a Sunday morning I don't care my family life was not the Highlight of my fears of Tesla these were long long days it wasn't until Zach and Daren found the faults that we then realized that we had substandard Parts on those cars which quite frankly pissed me off I I want I want I want names named at the time there was incredible pressure on Elon you know how are you going to tell the hardest working man in the world that like no I can't

get that done if someone's always on the hot seat and and is always the root cause for for Problems they will not be part of this organization long term it's not okay to be unhappy and part of this company right and if somebody can't get happy get divorc right exactly solution yeah exactly speak from personal experience in 2002 College sweethearts Elon and Justine lost their first child Nevada aged just 10 weeks using IVF the couple then had twins followed by triplets suddenly the CEO of SpaceX and The chairman of Tesla is a father of five

now that you're a father does it spur you on even more in both of these companies not really at least I don't think there's any fundamental change in in my motivation for either company actually I have less time to to work because I I I have to and want to spend time with with my kids so it actually actually impairs my ability to execute here really but that's fine I don't mind okay all right so he Compartmentalizes his brain people are coming in and talking to him and every hour they tell him what's happening and

when you date or marry Elon you don't see him much so it is hard to have a relationship in in his case we were seeing a marital therapist and I think he just got tired of the stress and the uncertainty of it and the next day sorry I went into my therapist's office and he had left a message for her to tell me that he was filing for divorce so that Was that was how I found out one of the more memorable moments of my life yeah I mean I was very young when I met

Elon I was 22 so I hadn't really yeah that was it school and a bit of acting weeks after filing for divorce Elon travels to London on a business trip where he meets an upand cominging actress Tula Riley in a West End nightclub I remember thinking wow what an incredible man never met anyone like him and I was just thinking about him and so I emailed him and said Okay well I've got some time after this shoot so I'm going to book a flight to LA and I've I've never been to La I'll book myself

a holiday and it would be lovely to see and he wanted to sort of you know fly me over and sort it all out and I was like no it's fine I'll I'll take care of it and then he said I don't want you to go home and I want to marry you and he apologized he said I'm sorry I don't have a a ring he said but this is you know this is what I'd like to do And so we shook hands on it and I said yes I will do my father told my

mother at the end of their first date that he was going to marry her and so I think I was primed to think that after 10 day you know I thought yep that's that's how it happens that's what love is and do that say dad you know obviously moved straight into the house with the children and it became a very real thing immediately what's this game did you just take did you just take that from Your brother yeah but I want to see what game it is this what I'm talking about somebody took somebody soy

statistically speaking one out the one out of the five has a good chance of being unhappy at any given point I think because of my youth I was relatively gung-ho about it but essentially our home life was work I mean we were focused on the companies and the children and that was that was it in 2010 the space shuttle after nearly 30 Years of Duty will be retired from service a contract worth billions of dollars could be handed to SpaceX if they can take on the duties of the retiring space shuttle SpaceX Engineers have been

on the remote Pacific island for almost 2 years with only one failed launch to show for it it's a SpaceX launch control the vehicle has been cycled and turned around for another attempt terminal count launches started 90 seconds well the first one was Miserable for me cuz it was it was my engine on fire T minus 60 seconds a start up so the second flight I was kind of in the dogghouse with Elon because you know the last one had failed and can't do that again T minus 30 seconds and if people get afraid of

him that's certainly not the right answer but at the same time he he is intimidating I can I can see that it helps if you have a little bit of a thicker skin six 5 first stage engine Sequence ini 2 one Falcon has cleared the tower the Merlin engine worked beautifully thank [ __ ] God and I'm like yes it did it and I remember Elon I always sat next to Elon and we stood up and hugged each other really the pressure was off from that first failure it's like we got it coming up on

stage separation sep stages are separated first stage flew Beau fully and then stage separated and the second stage came and then the second stage Started doing this the motion starts wiggling around and the engine kicking back and forth It's like if you're carrying a glass of wine and and every every step you take the the wine soses around well it actually ended up sloshing so high in the tanks if we burned the tank down that it FL the engine out the bottom line was we we spun out of control it went a couple thousand miles

and then and then crashed in the ocean [Music] again that failure wasn't on me but it was doesn't matter it was just like terrible for the company to have another one fail when we were so close Elon had enough money to build three rockets we just told them just calm down you know we figure something out we're going to fix it we made a mistake and we we mop it up and do it again so we came back a year later again with the new engine a much better engine Everything else tightened down that we

learned from the other launches Elon said that he's in for three times and and everybody could count it was always three strikes when you're out you work so hard for so long it's Agony it's really is it's just you know you everything was in it and then it failed and to have it failed three times in a row was pretty disheartening so let's move it on now to brown rice ecoar Tesla say it is pretty nippy which is the Fastest in a drag race excuse me girl I know that's a bit embarrassing but I just

know all night on your sh see I reckon you're about an eight or a n maybe even 9 and a half in time you got it does not to 60 in 39 seconds yeah yeah like I said you are really fit but my gosh don't you just know it I'm not 2 years after its star studded launch the Roadster has moved from dream prototype to a sailable production Car I Tesla budgeted $25 million to develop the Roadster the bill now stands at 140 million me my in the que are waiting for yeah this miscalculation means

that the company can't afford to make the cars for the price they promised 400 expectant customers have already paid full deposits and are now being asked to pay at least $6,000 more I cannot understate the degree of grief that I've personally gone through to to make this work glass Sandwich every bloody day I wish we didn't have to raise prices it sucks I can't carry Tesla entirely by myself it's just I just don't have the resources to do it we took faith in you and now you're just turning around and changing the price on us

not telling us and then we find out about backwards and now what kind of V hurt because we weren't told we can sell cars for you know less than they cost us to produce there seem to be a little bit of Anger From some people in the room it was very tough I think once you've snapped you probably don't realize it because you you've gone insane your ability to sort of look in the mirror psychologically is is substantially impaired probably most insane people don't think they're insane tough times have hit Tesla with some buyers canceling

orders of the battery powered Sports Car 2008 we had launched the car the Team of people had done a spectacular job of coming with the speed from from nothing and then you on he made a public announcement that uh we're going to bring in the real guys from the Auto industry now we're not going to be playing around anymore I was being seen more as the problem than as the solution I took that as a personal front didn't really feel like I should be Cho liver and I I took a move away Elan decided that

I'm his guy I told El when he was Interviewing look at my name it is spell z e EV zero emission electric vehicle I felt this is a destiny the company was bleeding a lot of money if they don't get the car into the market there would be no company so I came essentially as an agent of change I got all the executives that I decided that he should not be with us and terminated them faced with financial ruin like his grandfather Before him Elon adopts the same clinical approach to increasing Workforce efficiency to work

at Tesla you have to be a little crazy you really need to be more dedicated to the mission than you are to your own personal growth between Elon and I there was an understanding that I was in it for the mission as he was in it for the mission what a company is is a group of people that have gathered together to create a product or service are these efforts That people are expending are they resulting in a better product or service and if they're not stop those efforts Elon can be very overbearing I've seen

Elon Fire dozens and dozens and dozens of people he wouldn't ask anything of you or ask you to work harder than he was working himself and so I just kept trying to nail it every single time I was drinking out of a fire hose every single day for years and years and years so it just felt like how we did things I Feel bad that I lost those Prime years with with my daughter I didn't have as much contact with my family as I otherwise would have I don't know how he does it he just

keeps going and going and going it he's he's he's amazing the amount of energy that that man has I like he can just take the pain of of dealing with it constantly and most of us can't I had decided that I had no work life balance and I needed to take a break but I remember sitting in a room With him and telling him that my three-year-old son was calling me Dad and then I needed to take a break work hard every waking hour somebody else is working 50 hours and you working 100 you'll get

twice as much done in the course of a year as the other company he was trying to avoid bankruptcy every day El would come home and say tomorrow that's it being ridiculed in the Press horrible things being said there was something called the Tesla Death Watch At the time which was an Internet site kind of counting down the days till when Tesla was going to disappear electric car maker Tesla Ling off 20% of the workforce 24% he'd have night terrors in the middle of the night i''d be fced to sleep and then suddenly he would

be screaming in his sleep and sort of trying to climb up like in his sleep trying to escape something all available resource had to be plowed into the the Projects into the companies you know he gave me an out he said this this is going to be the hard path and you don't have to stay for it this simultaneous failure across all his companies cuz he's talking about chewing glass and staring into the abyss Rockets are blowing up and it just kept piling on the American people are concerned about the situation our financial markets and

our economy and I share their concerns it is the financial crisis is your job Safe can our next president do anything to turn this econ is going to be deeper and longer than we thought and stocks everything's falling apart in the economy major auto companies in America are going bankrupt not a great time to be trying to fund a automotive company that's not yet profitable the important point to bear in mind is that when you have new technology it takes time to optimize that technology if you think Elan and I we were in the midst

for Raising $100 million you feel that you just come for a and somebody come and bang you on the head and then it gets much worse this negativity something bad is happening fear uncertainty and doubt you know sometimes when a company is teetering between economic certainty and it's just a dream sentiment shifts can make a difference right that sentiment can turn against you the largest investor in the company has turned hostile things like not signing legal Paperwork and then it gets a little trickier still and that the company oh by the way is running out

of money so it didn't have cash to even last to the end of 2008 and the biggest investor says we're not going to put another penny in the company in that moment Elon did something that I've never seen any entrepreneur do going net into debt he borrowed money from Friends literally spent every penny he had plus more and he told all the folks at Tesla I'll just Do the whole thing I'll about $40 million he had no house to his name he had nothing he was all in and what happened was people's fear switched to

Greed all of the other inside investors ourselves included invested as much as we could that wasn't our bravery it was elon's bravery that we attached to part of it I think comes from a self affirming nature that his brother Kimble described as being somewhat immune to risk a more accurate description is that He so truly sees the vision of what's unfolding that it doesn't seem fathomable that it would not happen Elon called a big meeting then Elon said okay get your [ __ ] together you have one more rocket bring it down there we launch

again in 6 weeks after the flight three we thought we were out but just by luck you get a fourth chance at it SpaceX has just enough existing components to attempt a fourth and final flight to orbit I was exhausted 20 Seconds but he ried all of us for not giving up and continuing this at this time and putting everything on the last rocket basically 2 1 zero we're fly we didn't change a lot on the rocket this time we changeed primarily a piece of sofware 9 minutes 30 seconds second stage approaching SEO and that

was all it took the rocket went to orbit and that means Falcon once the first privately developed launch Elon went from being ridiculed to suddenly his Word was gospel Fame is not something that agrees with him Tranquility Bas here the eagle has landed they inspired you to do this didn't they yes and to see them casting stones in your direction it's difficult Neil Jim Lovel and I have come to a unanimous conclusion that this is in fact a blueprint for a mission to Nowhere can we just break for a sec we used up all the

100 million and then there was the Big recession in the end I had to invest everything why did you want to take the risks these businesses that you gone into I have to say at times I've wondered but you know like creating a company is almost like having a child so it's sort of like how do you say your child should not have food you have to feed it and nurse it take care of it even if it it ruins you yeah there was some tough times in end of 2008 how did you get through

that period of Crisis Yeah can we just break for a second sure sure of course sure up it was worth it sure so me sure it was worth it in 2009 Elon Musk is a bruised and weary man the father of five has invested all of his money in his two companies SpaceX making rockets and Tesla electric cars running a company does have its drawbacks a friend of mine he has a good phrase is like eating glass and staring into the abyss and you agree with that yeah and and and and if You don't eat

the glass you're not going to be successful this is Elon Tesla narrowly scraped through last year's Global financial crisis and now Elon has a new car the model S that he hopes will be the first mass-produced all electric car in history all right again thanks for coming here um I think it'll be pretty excited what we about what we're about to unveil somebody kick me out a Flashlight I I really believe that the sedan is is absolute vaporware there is no way that Tesla has the cash on hand in order to be able to truly

develop their own sedan this is the first mass manufactured electric car this is something that is uh they've got a prototype that they're going to show and they're going to start taking deposits which I find just an amazing Act of golf just been very very high workload and then uh between SpaceX Tesla and and Kids it's uh there's just really not enough time in the day so not enough time to sleep it was really awful he plowed his money into Tesla and spacer he was under incredible stress I was worried he was going to have

a heart attack I just kept thinking God I've just got to keep this guy alive you the honest answer is I'm not looking forward to the party tonight all night long I'll be selling cars for 5 hours after s of selling cars For you know 5 hours hours before that it won't be fun for me it was one of the bad Christmases he'd forgotten to get me a Christmas present we were in Boulder Colorado so it's loads and loads of snow and we were in bed and he said I do you know he's not that

I don't love you I do really really love you he's just it's like you know my brain is exploding and I was like no I know it's fine and and he sort of got up in the middle of the night and disappeared I was like where's Where is he gone and he came back 2 hours later and he'd gone outside in his t-shirt and shorts Barefoot and he'd gone and like dug through the snow and picked flowers from like he'd walked all over Boulder and like came back with a little bouquet of of of picked

flowers and he was I I just wanted to show you how much I loved you he was very supportive of me having a career but I had to come back and do c trinion too and was the first time we'd been apart And he he sent two Lor loads of flowers to set for me and he'd also found out from production the the name of every woman on set and he'd sent them all flowers and champagne and chocolate so that then when he came to visit everyone was like oh hi on the card here I

remember at the premiere he came along and he was holding my umbrella for me while I was doing some signings no one knew who Elon was he was very sweet and lovely and Very supportive 2 years after meeting Lula are building a new life together but there's a major problem court documents from elon's divorce show that for months he's been using Emergency Loans from friends to pay his divorce costs and living expenses a year after promising the world's first mass-produced all electric car Tesla has so far only made a few prototypes and has neither the

factory or the staff to produce the cars Elon Decides to gamble for the first time in 50 years a car company is being floated on the US Stock Exchange if the stocks do well Elon will have the money to ramp up production he'll know his Fate by the closing bell Tesla Motors they're making their debut on the NASDAQ today now the company has yet to make uh a profit even for a single quarter you know what this company has yet to make a dime it has lost $290 million Tesla a sell sell sell You don't

want to own this stock you don't want to lease it heck you even you shouldn't even rent the darn thing I think Elon was pretty stressed out that day you could see it on his face that he was under some under some pressure and and worried about how it was all going to come together Elon a huge day for Tesla the company going public like many startup companies you lose money the company has lost about $260 million since its Inception you're going public You want the public to invest in Tesla we were this car company

that had no money that was you know making this crazy car in Silicon Valley and without any Automotive Experts so everyone was like they're never going to make it what are they doing we weren't even close to being a household name there was definite risk there's no place to charge a stupid thing right now you have to you have to assum that's the least of them Joe how do you begin Mass Market production of an electric vehicle you're guaranteeing that this is going to be built in that you can get production ramped up on this

model because in the Auto industry a lot of people are saying not going to happen well you know I think people at this point ought to be a little B more optimistic about the future of Tesla I remember the energy kind of in the studio right before they rang the bell I Mean it was palpable well big losses on Wall Street today as we've been reporting and it's just the same for just about any US Stock you care to name except one it's a result that almost no one saw coming the shares go stratospheric valuing

the company at 2.2 billion at the end of the day elon's own stake in the company is worth $650 million Tesla's always been the problem TR I suppose all the sort of intensity of you know it's us against the world we're about to die any second we had a lot of bloggers maintaining a Tesla death watch um a day-by-day count of how long before Tesla di Tesla has this cool factor that a lot of car companies out there just don't have flush with the new cash injection Elon gets to work well uh we have a

a a very big sign he buys a factory in Fremont California for $42 million it has the capacity to Mass-produce the model S but Elon needs someone to help sell his electric dreams to petrol obsessed America George blankinship G EO g blankinship b l a n k n sh sh i p he chooses the Man Steve Jobs trusted to launch the Apple Stores across the globe yeah I I retired from Apple and I started getting these emails George Elon Musk would like to speak to you give me a call and delete I mean I I

assumed this was junk mail Elon got on the phone and we started chatting why Youd come work for the company I was like I'm retired and I need to spend time with my wife and kids and stuff like he said come out to come out to LA I met with Elon and I thought he was special he asked me you know if you were gonna bring Tesla EVS to Market how would you do it I said I do it just like apple there's a whole education thing we had to go through at Apple and there's

going to be a whole education thing we're going to have to do with EV is how Much does it cost to charge and how do I charge this and there's all these questions out there the Roadster was proof of concept but the model S was the first car that was really meant for people to drive like a regular car we would talk to people about the car and show it to them and all that and then they'd say well how do I get one of these and with a straight face we would look them in

the eye and we would say well give me $5,000 today and I'll I'll Give you a car in a couple years they go what go yeah you give me a $5,000 deposit today and we'll send you a car in a couple years I go you're kidding it's go no no that's what we do we'll give you a reservation number and unless you want one of the first thousand if you want one of the first thousand you got to give me $40,000 today and I'll send you a car in a couple years and people did it

Elon has so his customers a vision of The future yeah it looked really amazing in the pictures green fast Sleek completely away from gas and so I decided you got to put your money where your mouth is and support it under George W bush the American government had also bought into elon's future plans in late 2008 NASA granted elon's rocket company SpaceX a $1.6 billion contract to take over the duties of the retiring space shuttle it was incredible and then Obama got elected it was an sort of Amazing moment in history and so we we

we sat on the stage for his inauguration the thing I do remember is that Elon hadn't appropriately packed and it started snowing and he had to borrow the driver's coat and hat cuz otherwise he would have frozen to death I think at that point I was like shall I just should I just pack for you and we go on trips we like okay it's probably a good idea preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States Preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States so help you God so help me God congratulations

Mr President so today I'd like to talk about the next chapter in this story not just to continue on the same path we want to LEAP into the future the bottom line is nobody is more committed to man's face white than I am but we've got to do it in a Smart Way governments are just really bad at at Cost efficiency they they tend to do Things expensively and inefficiently people in Washington driven sometimes less by Vision than by politics have neglected NASA's mission space exploration in the 21st century do you consider yourself a Visionary

I suppose I suppose it would being a Visionary yeah I I think the reality of being president is that you're actually like the captain of a very huge ship and have a small Ruder you know I'm I'm generally a fan of like minimal government Interference like the government should be kind of like the referee but not the player and there shouldn't be too many referees are there are there some pitfalls and some risks I mean it seems like you're creating intellectual material that wouldn't be good maybe in the wrong hands I mean as far as

being able to go send something up into space does the government is there any resistance from the government uh no the governor is our us Governor is our Primary customer NASA they took a risk we were a small company very unproven we had like I don't know 300 people maybe we went from like launching a small rocket to to working on on a transportation system to the International Space Station jumping into the this huge responsibility was a major step you know suddenly in the in the big league with the retirement of the last ever space

shuttle the US government is now reliant on SpaceX to make good its Promise to resupply the International Space Station the young startup has to upscale fast I jokingly describe myself as the pi Piper of super nerds my role is essentially to go find people a thousand times smarter than me get them excited about solving a really hard problem one of the ways that we explained what the SpaceX culture was and this was in order to be really honest with people SpaceX is Special Forces we take on the missions that others deem impossible this will be

the hardest thing you will ever do in your life it is the kind of personality that wants to be a Navy SEAL the engineering equivalent of that it will be bruising and punishing and uncomfortable every day growth is really comfortable if you are comfortable you are probably not growing to work for Elon is to be comfortable in a constant state of Discomfort he has 10,000 times more what the average person has streaming through their brain at any given time our ability to think about and analyze a problem is nothing compared to how his brain works

Elon aspires to be like the greatest engineer in the history of the world he does have the cognitive horsepower of the Geniuses that we have seen come before us but he's not Einstein is he I think he is smarter than Einstein but then there's another company that's that's specifically focused on cancer kind of more of a near-term thing and I think that's that's going to be one of the key things to solving a lot of diseases actually which is to just basically write a program that destroys the disease and then and code destroy codee as

well as rockets and cars elon's interests are growing Elon starts tweeting about his interests in Artificial intelligence something he refers to as summoning the demon we're building progressively greater intelligence and the percentage of intelligence that is not human is increasing and eventually we will represent a very small percentage of intelligence are you honestly legitimately concerned about this are you is like AI one of your main worries yes he later goes on to confess his deepest fears on The Joe Rogan To a worldwide audience it's going to be very tempting to use AI as a weapon

you scare the [ __ ] out of me when you talk about Ai and no one's really paying attention too much other than people like you I try to convince people to slow down slow down AI this was futile nobody listened nobody listened no one I met with Obama and and what did he say no one seemed to realize where this was going I don't want the government to handle this who Do you want to hand I want you to handle this oh jeez yeah I feel like you're the one who could ring the bell

better there's not a million Elon musks there's one do you think about that I don't think I don't think you'd necessarily want to be [Music] me it's launch day 10 years after SpaceX was founded the company is operating on the world stage a perfect launch must lead to a Precise deployment of the Dragon capsule which will then dock autonomously with the International Space Station I was a launch cheap engineer my job was to make sure everything goes right tus 1 minute the F computers and control the vehicle a rocket is a risky product you just

got to keep your nerves and you got to you got to basically do your job and then trust trust your data and trust your tests trust your work tus 30 seconds we're going to launch a dragon spaceship On a Falcon 9 rocket uh dragon will then maneuver over to the space station figure out the position and orientation and then go through a series of steps where it gets closer and closer to the space station and eventually Ducks there's a lot that could go wrong I mean really a lot I I cannot emphasize that enough this

mission may not succeed 5 4 3 2 1 zero Falcon 9 has cleared the tower you have to remember a rocket is like essentially a miracle 880,000 Custom components one wire 1 mm off anything off by the smallest margin and you are done launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as NASA turns to the private sector to resupply the International Space Station only four governments in the world have the capability of doing what SpaceX is attempting to accomplish seems a little strange to be handing it all over to private Enterprise but I guess I'm kind

of stuck in the past for a rocket Mission everything is over in 10 minutes you see the satellites being deployed and and you can head to the party not true for Dragon Revo is one of the trickiest Maneuvers in space to bring together two spacecraft going 5 miles a second they're initiating the capture of the Dragon standing by copy confirm when Dragon docks with a space station first it gets grappled by the arm then it gets moved over to a birthing port and then that Port has to be actually fitting whatever we have on The

dragon side and you never have a chance to actually check that because the hardware is on the space station so the first time you do this is actually when you do the first mission and you just you just hope this all works at the end of the day official hatch opening time for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft 4:53 a.m. Central [Applause] Time We also got a little dessert just like you said got a little ice Cream I have a big hand for our friends at Nasa who who help make this happen the is a complete success

but some established Aerospace figures aren't happy spacex's lack of experience bothers some NASA Legends like Apollo Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Jean cernon welcome Mr Neil Armstrong who's commander of Apollo 11 turn the button on turned on how about that that's good okay with regard to President Obama's 2010 plan I have yet to find a person in NASA that defense department the Air Force the nationaly industry or Academia that had any knowledge of the plan prior to its announcement I support the encouragement of newcomers toward their goal of lower cost access to space but having cut

my teeth in Rockets more than 50 years ago I am not confident now is the time for wiser heads in Congress of the United States to Prevail now is the time to over rule this administration's pledge To mediocrity folks who propose such a limited architecture do not yet know what they don't know there are people who say about you that you don't know what you don't know well I suppose that's true of anyone how can anyone know what they don't know when critics say you can't do this your answer to them is we've done it

Neil Jim Lovel and I have come to a unanimous conclusion that this is in fact a Blueprint for a mission to Nowhere you know there are American Heroes who don't like this idea and I wonder what you think of that I was very sad to see that because those guys are yeah you know those guys are heroes of mine so it's really tough you know I I wish they would come and visit and and see the hardware that we doing camp and and I think that would change their mind they inspired you to do this

didn't they yes and to see them casting stones in your Direction it's difficult he's has a kind of Innocence to him what I mean by that is that he feels with Incredible Purity the emotion that he is feeling at the time whatever that emotion is he feels things very very deeply so you know I've heard it said that he's cold and emotionless and that that could not be further from the truth he is the most emotional person I know one of the things I remember really early on is we were we gone to the Cinema

watching some comedy and Elon found the film so funny that he literally fell on the floor and was like rolling around holding his tummy laughing and everyone else in the cinema was looking at us like what the hell is going on over there and I was like know come on get up off the floor but he was he was just enraptured by what was on screen and he was feeling it and he feels things and you know if he feels anger you know it it's there you know Anything he it's it's it goes deep he

told me all about his childhood growing up I think his childhood shaped him in a lot of ways I think he knows what it's like to be bottom of the pack to be hurt by people that you should be able to trust and obviously I think that leaves scars you grew up in South Africa yes yeah I left one 17 by myself at at a backpack of clothes and a suitcase of books and that's it did you have a happy childhood no it's terrible are you Serious yes why was it terrible I had this one

guy who would want to see me and when I had nothing you know else to do then I would see him but he was very insulting to people and rude and I didn't really like him that much but then otherwise I just sat at home you know after a couple of years my brother banned him from seeing me for 2 years I didn't see him I graduated and uh went to live in Cape Town and he came to visit me just turned Up with an engagement ring and I said I'll never wear it and then

he went back and told my family that I'd agreed to marry him which surprised my family uh because they didn't know I was seeing him and I wasn't and then I just got this telegram from my appearance congratulations the wedding arrangements are ma made the invites are out and 800 people are coming I called him I said what do you mean I'm marrying you and he said I will Change when we get married because then I'll be be kinder and nicer I'm just aggressive because you won't marry me so I did believe him and then

I felt pregnant on honeymoon then and the abuse started right away and beating me up if I didn't do as I was told I came back from honeymoon bruised and Pregnant and then I didn't want my family to know so then you just put up with that because you have no choice Elon while he was a little boy he grew up in a very violent home like for example when I always had to drive the car and he would be punching me and Elon would be between the seats hitting his father to stop him punching

me when he would be at home and punching me Kimble and TSA would be crying in the corner because they were really babies they Elon was five Kimble four TSA 3 Elon would be hitting his dad at the back of his legs and then when he was Eight we left my father serious issues okay well so you didn't have a happy childhood it was very violent his father Errol denies all the allegations of domestic abuse after 2 years Elon said he wanted to go and live with his father and that made me very sad very

sad because I didn't see why he would wanted to do that his father had the encyclopedia britanica I couldn't afford books I mean he'd read everything in the library in Durban so he had the Opportunity to actually read the whole encyclopedias I could call him anytime and ask him any subject anything in the world I do know that you were bullied at school and had a I almost Beena to death if you've call that bullied he was shy and awkward at school Elon didn't have many friends pupils at Elon School saw him as strange and

he was systematically bullied for years a gang beat up his best friend making him agree never to hang around with Elon on one occasion on Was pushed down the flight of stairs and beaten violently leaving him in hospital for weeks it's no surprise then that as an adult he's a fighter determined to succeed and prove everyone wrong all right it is now time it is the moment we've been waiting for for a long time time to deliver Model S yes delivery of Model S we decided that we should make an event of this I was

sort of MC I got The opportunity to be MC and I came out and I sort of fired up the crowd there are a lot of people who said this day would never come we did it the person who is going to drive us to have the best car in the solar system ladies and gentlemen Mr Elon M what the model S is fundamentally about is that an electric car can in fact be the best car in the world time to start delivering Model S give Jeff his his car keys All right all right thank

thank you let them go the pr drive for the model S is up and running but manufacturing is slow the cars need to be rolling off the production line in their thousands so far Tesla has made 10es the hype is bolstered by the model S becoming the first ever electric car to win the industry's prestigious Car of the Year award congratulations on despite the chasm between hype and economic reality Elon makes a bold claim To investors just a couple of questions the the first one is how confident are you that you guys are moving in

the right direction there I I really feel that that Tesla has turned a corner we're we're very confident of achieving a small profit in the first quarter Elon tweeted Tesla will be profitable in q1 2013 like should we talk about this in the first quarter we EXP to produce and deliver almost 5,000 cars we had to deliver 4,750 cars Q2 of 2012 we delivered 12 cars people will view this as a turning point in time when an electric car company became a truly viable company I think that's how this period will be looked at in

in the future he asked us to do the impossible but it he modeled that himself so you know how are you going to tell the hardest working man in the world that like no I can't get that done Elon good to see you good to see you we're ready to walk over to the Factory walk over there or yeah do you ever think you're growing too quickly faster we can accelerate the Advent of electric cars the better the world will be so I think but as you well know it's a it's a fine line between

growing and meeting demand and making sure that you don't stumble along the way well I have no doubt that we will stumble and we certainly have stumbled in the past and have no doubt we will stumble in the future but yeah but we want to go as Fast as we possibly can without maybe falling totally flat on our face it was tough I mean 4 hours of sleep at night my wife left and went to Florida you know she left in around the 15th of February she said I can't watch you anymore it was the

toughest month I ever worked he assumed that we weren't doing enough fast enough to deliver enough cars in q1 of 2013 too little too late and he kept saying too little too late there were Moments when he would get he would definitely get upset and you've you know heard of him firing people on the spot yes all of that happened when Elon was behaving badly I would kind of liken it to a toddler right like that was having a tantrum about something or upset about something yeah my desk is in the factory it's just right

over there I can show you where it is he wants to take us by his desk he he moved his desk over to Near my desk so that he could watch what was going on every single day I think it's important for a leader to be at the front lines my biggest challenge is ramping up production and so what's that about it's about being in the factory and understanding where the issues are and so I want the very opposite of being up in an ivory Tower I want to be in the middle of the battle

and and so that means putting my desk in the middle of the factory so it's that that's where it Is it's a it's a noticeably clean desk with the exception of the award yeah I I mean it's got I guess it's my the phot trend award my sunglasses and yeah this is my this is my desk I think failure is bad I don't think it's good but if if if something's important enough then you you do it even though the risk of failure is high MH my advice if somebody wants to start a company is

they should bear in mind that the most likely outcome is is that it's not going To work and they should only do it if they feel that they they they are really compelled to do it you know there were a number of times that I witnessed Elon sleeping in the factory showing people people how important it is to be focused on on finding a solution cuz if Elon Musk can take the time to sleep there and be there 24 hours a day everyone else should make the time Factor's ramping up you know and they're building

cars but it's going to be close could They build enough and we're halfway through the quarter and we weren't making it we were not making it and I'm pretty good emotional here this was really a tough time and we started bringing people people from Europe bringing people from all over to help deliver cars the IT team was washing cars other Department's marketing was driving them to the other end of the parking lot and I started a an email Trail to Elon Every night telling him here's how many you sold here's how many delivered there's how

many we have deposits on and here's here's where we stand and it didn't look good it did not look good and he would I would send it to him at 11:30 and he respond back at 11:35 and it just didn't look good and he let me know then on the Tuesday the last week of the quarter I sent him one when I remember it as if it was yesterday he said this looks promising and it was Saturday at 3:00 we delivered the 4, 750th car 3:00 we made $1 million that quarter put us over the

hump stock them from $20 to $90 and Tesla became a viable company I stood up on the desk like this called everybody around and I said you guys have no idea how impactful it is what you just did you can't understand it but what you just did is Monumental not just for Tesla but for what we're going to do for mankind you should all feel extraordinary sense of Accomplishment we were a real company on on March 31st 2013 19 years after starting his first company Elon Musk now has a net worth of $1 billion Tesla

is starting to become a household name with mass Market appeal and SpaceX has cornered the lucrative Market in launching commercial satellites into orbit but despite all of these achievements Elon Musk has always dreamt of one ultimate goal if you look At things on an historical time scale the multi-billion year history of Earth itself you can really point to about half a dozen major steps on on the evolution of Life single cell life life moving from the oceans to land mammals Consciousness you know those are sort of like the big ones on that scale also would

fit the extension of life to multiple planets but a critical element is making reusable orbital craft in any mode of Transport if you had a reusable Vehicle or expendable vehicle it it would be a night and day difference I mean how many people would would have driven here if the car was single use yeah we've got this weird situation in space where Vehicles can only be used once in fact if you want a return Journey you got like tow one behind you so the the huge breakthrough that SpaceX aspires to achieve and this is a

very difficult thing is to make a fully reusable orbital launch vehicle SpaceX Is fundamentally a vehicle to make a thriving future for Humanity in space possible you cannot do that with $200 million rockets that is the equivalent of buying a yacht sailing it from here to France and then essentially setting it on fire that makes no sense after each Supply trip to the International Space Station SpaceX attempt to land their Rockets safely so they can be used again you're one of the CEOs of SpaceX and I'm incredibly excited you're the CEO oh I'm sorry your

goal is toy to land the Falcon rocket on a barge at Sea so you can reuse a ship if it's got engines it's a ship okay we have a footage of the this is the last attempt I think to land the rocket after it successfully delivered a payload here it goes come on baby you can do it it broke the leg on Landing it broke more than that so we're still looking at data we need to analyze what happened it's certainly needs more work in the next Next couple missions so far many of SpaceX attempts

to land and the Falcon rocket have failed lift off of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and on the next trip to the space station there's a bigger problem Falcon has cleared the tower we have important payload on board we have a docking adapter for the space station we had the space suit on there too and then of course food and and and water and and oxygen all the things that the astronauts need their survival Depends on you vehicle on course on track now I had my head down I I was I was long chief engineer

I was looking at the data and I I look at the video data at at 137 seconds suddenly the rocket disappears and I look up again and then the rocket is gone and I was thinking where did it go and and then we see these these metal pieces raining down and and it was it was clear it it exploded or you know fell apart and flly caught by surprise while on a break Elon Speaks to the Press Elon Elon can you talk for a second yeah yeah what are your thoughts on sorry jet lags and

everything our goal is to have the most reliable rocket ever um because obviously this is going to be launching astronauts in a couple of years so uh it needs to be super super reliable the failure of the rocket launch is a setback for SpaceX but more damaging for Elon are the stories around Tesla now bad news for Tesla Motors it's now the target of a federal investigation into why two of the company's Model S vehic have caught fire this year a small number of Tesla car fires has a large effect on a company trying to

appeal to a global Marketplace my kids are going to be in the car my friends will be in the car you guys will be in the car we care deeply about making sure that this is the safest vehicle in the world that's a brand new Car three Model S's have now caught fire two after hitting debris and one after the driver hit a concrete wall nobody was hurt but what is getting hurt are Tesla shares they've shed about 12 % since yesterday dragging Tesla's market cap down by about $3 billion yeah no problem Elon goes

on the offensive to defend Tesla Three Fires in these Tesla vehicles with the most recent one in the past week the the headlines are extremely misleading in fact if if fire Risk is your concern you would have a great deal of difficulty being in any better car than the model S I not at all that's not not true that's a common misperception how do you turn around the image of an electric car our three non-injurious fires got more National headlines than A4 million deadly gasoline carf fires that's mad what the heck is going on are

you quite thin skinned about this stuff well I mean I really care about Tesla and about the Model S and everything so it's hardly dispassionate about that you know it's it's it's a lot of Blood Sweat and Tears from a lot of people frustrated the bad press won't go away Elon repeatedly takes to Twitter with 5 minutes of research you can get to the truth very quickly 6 months after the Falcon 9 explosion Elon is desperate for a good news story today SpaceX are trying to safely land its reusable rocket a historic first step towards

the Mission to Mars so far we only tried to land on the ships and and then here we go it's the first launch after this major anomaly where we lose the whole payload Lo on the way to the space station and it is the first launch that tries to land on land countdown we had like certain issues where we needed to make decisions is this good or not I wanted Elon to decide and uh and and he he was thinking and I just I know he was thinking and will come to a result I Just

want to remind him we got one minute left as calmly as possible do we see anything on the sensors that's a problem right now nothing they say go for launch 10 and then we decide to go come on baby go all right we see it do the landing burn and then we hear this boom yeah and the boom coincides with the rocket disappearing okay this is bad potentially bad so we looked at the screen again and then there's the rocket it's standing up standing it was Incredible that was one of the best days of my

life I'm really thankful for for seeing firsthand that Humanity can do impossible things and they are only impossible until somebody pulls them off Elon is never satisfied but that is what makes him who he is look it's just sitting there look at that what holy smokes man what I think he's an Incredible Gift To The World he is arguably the best leader on the face of the Planet I would take the bad with the good because if you mess with the recipe you might mess with the magic his brain is fundamentally more efficient there are

times where where like I might think I disagree but like he's probably like thought it through in a way that I haven't thought about it if he ask me to jump I'm going to ask him how high everyone wants to know who Elon Musk really is there are Clues to be found in his family history whilst his mother may Is often at his side he is never seen with his father who has stayed in South Africa something to steal things with I go to a someplace and break their my name is Errol Graham musk I'm

elon's father I've had to do a lot of repairs on this car takes months to do this woodwork cuz you have to spray a time let it dry a time let it dry my my relationship with Elon is very much the same as my relationship I had with my father we mostly communicate on Email I haven't spoken to them for a quite a long time in 2017 Elon gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine he said about his father almost every crime you could possibly think of he has done almost every evil thing you could

possibly think of he has done you have to be a bit of a nutcase really you know when a gang of intruders broke into's house he killed three of them he was charged with murder but pleaded Self-defense and was not convicted my daughter and I were attacked there by gang they fired 52 shots at me and I fired two shots at them I was using a magnum so one shot killed two people and the second shot he died from the shot to the ground I was charged with murder but at the inquest I did get

annoyed when they said to me couldn't you have used less violence and uh then I said in the in the in the court I said well you know Only fired Two Shots you know they fired 52 so you know it was silly can't you use less violence well yeah I don't know but terrible I'm not happy with that I'm not proud of it I didn't expect it I didn't ask for it but that's what happened but I was in the military in South Africa so my advice is don't tangle with guys who are in the

military in South Africa here in 2016 a new president has just been elected Jenny R the CEO ofm also Elon will now need to work with the new government when delivering on his multi-billion SpaceX contracts I'm saff for cats I'm CEO War I'm AB privileged and honored to here Jeff Bezos I'm super excited about the possibil this can be the Innovation Administration mus COO of SpaceX and Tesla uh building rockets and cars and solar stuff in the US I'm really excited About expanding how manufacturing footprint in the US well I just want to thank everybody

this is a truly a amazing group of people I want to add that I'm here to help you folks do well there's nobody like you in the world in the world there's nobody like the people in this room a little w a little W Elon Musk is going big his profile is growing with millions of Twitter followers up until now this is Elon musk's Pet Project the goal is to solve the problem Of chronic traffic congestion either we try something new or we will be stuck in and traffic hell for the rest of our lives

Elon MOS is looking to get inside your head his Neuroscience startup neuralink aims to implant chips in the human brain to combat various diseases basically an effort for man to merge with machine in a healthy way yes to beat machines you basically have to merge with machines most likely yes but perhaps his biggest call is building one Of the world's largest factories in the middle of the Nevada desert the gigafactory will supply the ever growing Fleet of Tesla cars with lithium ion batteries he needs to convince 20,000 people to come to the desert and join

the electric car company the hope for the gigafactory was that we were going to finally solve the market problem of not being able to produce or secure enough lithium ion batteries right so it really was a Survival mechanism announced to the world like as it's occurring to him that we need to build the biggest battery Factory the world's ever seen because because if our own forecast is true we won't have enough batteries even if we took all that are being made by everyone eventually all cars will be electric with zero exception it will be companies

like Tesla and individuals like Elon Musk who leave that charge we need to encourage and find more people like that And celebrate their existence on this planet cuz that's the only hope we have for the future of the planet welcome everyone to the gigafactory launch party I hope you having a good [Music] time listen I I really want you have a great time tonight to work at Tesla I think you really need to be inspired by more than just the job that they're doing on a day-to-day basis but why they're doing it those are the

people That are called to the mission and and will stay with the company and help it to succeed I think you'll find the majority of people that have have worked definitely at Tesla and I would assume probably at SpaceX to say like he asks us to do the impossible but it's only unattainable until you attain it right hopefully people will apply into it and uh you know start to believe and the world thanks we're only able to do this because of because of you guys So it's without without you this this could not be possible

so I just want to say thank you very much all of our secrets are right here I mean it was a crazy crazy sort of upwards trajectory from nothing to everything it felt like being on a rocket you know we were being invited places and I remember we were you know we were at a party and then actually at that dinner I think I sat next to Bill Clinton and Elon said the great thing About being famous is that when you sit next to somebody you don't know a dinner party they think the bad conversation

is their fault because that is that is sort of what happens now everyone sort of listens to everything he says and I've I've had people say to me oh I met Elon and you know and he you know I could tell he was a genius because he seemed incredibly distracted and he was clearly thinking great things and I'd be thinking really you know you you Probably just didn't like you he was probably a bit bored and then I text Elon and be like just met so and so and he'd be like oh yeah really boring

do that thing dad to Lula and Elon married in 2010 they then divorced and remarried now in 2016 things are once again Rocky and they will divorce for a second time later in the year I found I found LA really tough from the moment I landed There it was an incredible culture shock and but I I just wanted to come home yeah and and I kept trying to come home but then also I do really love Elon as well and so you know we it took took quite a few years of us figuring that out

but I mean he I think he could kind of see the way the world was going in a way I just I just did not understand and I I love having that perspective and and and I'm grateful for that that whole for every part of that I hope he gets Humanity to Mars because I think that is his reason for being more than any other what are the plans in coming months why are you hiring are you from like the new local media okay cool well well obviously as you can see we're building a production

facility here a real production facility can you tell us a little bit about what you're building just basic terms a spaceship please join me in welcoming Elon Musk what I really want to kind of Uh achieve here is to make Mars seem possible make it seem as though it's something that we can do in our lifetimes and that you can go this is to give you a sense of size is quite big and but it kind of needs to be about the size because in order to to fit 100 people or thereabouts in the pressurized

section plus carry the luggage and all of the unpressurized cargo to build propellant plants and build everything from Iron Foundaries to pizza joints to you name it in the but we need to carry a lot lot of cargo elon's plan is to send thousands of spaceships to Mars in order to build a new civilization in order to build a self-sustaining City it it needs to be a million people or something like that if moving to Mars costs $100,000 then I think you know almost anyone can work and save up and eventually be able to go

to Mars if they want if you look at who the most famous human being in All of human history is I can tell you who that is but I can't tell you what their name is I can't tell you what sex the the the person is but I can tell you it's going to be the first human born on another planet like Mars right so this vision is what drives Elon there are a number of steps on the road to Mars the first is a successful launch of the fulcon heavy this will demonstrate that a

significant payload can be launched into Earth's Orbit you are looking at a live of the Falcon heavy yes the Falcon heavy Falcon heavy is essentially three Falcon 9 Rockets all strapped together which means it can carry much larger payloads not only to Earth orbit but to the moon and Mars as well okay everything's Cen guys okay party time it must be experienced live I can't it's it's just 10 9 8 said 6 5 4 3 2 you see them both what that's unreal once the Rockets Have lifted the Falcon heavy into orbit they then detach

themselves and land back on Earth when the Falcon heavy is in Orbit it's then able to release the cherry red Tesla which is heading towards Mars man go it's [Applause] a booster boost boost shut down I mean it's kind of silly and fun but you know silly fun things are Important and it's still tripping me out I mean I'm tripping Bulls [Laughter] here boers looking to be on track towards their respective Landing and for elon's final trick he successfully lands the two Falcon Rockets and the fal have landed you have to give him credit he's

one of our great Geniuses and we have to protect our genius you know we have to protect Thomas Edison and we have to protect all Of these people that came up with originally the light bulb and the wheel and all of these things and he's one of our very smart people and we want to we want to cherish those people that's very important but he's done a very good job the success in Showmanship of this rocket launch only adds to elon's public profile for many he is turning into a real life superhero it's a long

way from where it started in 1970s South Africa in a city called ptor South Africa was a Bit of a rapscallion setup you know getting knocked about was pretty normal uh I mean if you did well in that at school you you would they would wait for you at the exit of the school and and and Pummel you with their bags so I mean if you call that bullying we had a lot of that Elon was a good reader very early on so Elon was very keen on reading about Napoleon about Alexander the Great and

he would he would he he even had a copy of Napoleon's last Willen Testament uh which is in French people would say to him are you reading are you reading that big thick book little boy some idiot would say to him and and and Elon would say what are you stupid you think I'm just looking at the pictures or what you know so so you know but he liked to be with the adults in company so if the other kids were running around playing he would like to sit with the adults where often he was

often told why Don't you go and play with the children and he'd say now I'd rather sit here with the adults this engine was used for many many cars from about 1968 to 1986 I had a lot of nice cars during elon's youth Porsche and mid's Ferrari and Maserati he was always interested in taking the doors apart and all that sort of stuff because sometimes you had to fix something and and he would he would do it he would open it up himself for me I wouldn't say he was the best mechanic you know most

amateur mechanics are a little bit ham-handed but but he he he would certainly try he was he was definitely not a boring child not a boring child Tesla has launched the Roadster and the model S but for electric cars to take over the more affordable model 3 needs to be a success the scaling of the company was a challenge and Elon definitely had a handful of people that you know he he Trusted and he put in place in charge of the gigafactory and design and Etc it there was so much on his plate that he

couldn't be because he liked to be very involved in a lot of the details but that kind of way of working was was starting to fracture breaking news Tesla reporting first quarter results we can't call them earnings because it's a was this is a 15-year-old company that could genuinely risk running out of cash in 2018 as well as production issues there Are also cash flow issues investors are starting to get nervous there were things that would come out of his mouth and words that he would say to people that under any amount of stress were

not okay he was more erratic I can count three times that he got really upset with me and the last time he was yelling me about a mistake that someone on my team made and he was really angry and there was a disconnect I wasn't seeing Elon I was Seeing this person being overtaken by this anger it was so bizarre and kind of the blink of an eye I saw him snap out of it and recognize that it was me and it was fine and he apologized to me the next day but it was in

that moment that I decided I've hit my limit and it is time to go as the CEO of Tesla every quarter Elon is asked questions by Wall Street investors in May 2018 he is irritated by their questions so where specifically will you be in Terms of requirement next next Bing bonad questions are not cool next we have no interest in satisfying the desires of day Traders I couldn't care less please sell our stock and don't buy it people are concerned about B so they should definitely know by our stuff JPM says it's bizarre RBC says

the call shook confidence this is not okay I mean if you Stripped Away Tesla and you didn't know who the CEO was you would come away from this conference call most People would at least and say this company has not run properly this company just cost us $2 billion in market cap because of what the CEO did the pressure on Elon Musk continues to mount there are problems on the factory floor whistleblowers from his gigafactory contact journalists with information am I am I wrinkly am I Lynette Lopez breaks the story the first piece I wrote

about Tesla was in the spring of 2018 and it was called Elon Musk doesn't care about you it was shortly after Elon Musk had sat on a earnings call and insulted a bunch of the investment bankers trying to ask questions about the company digging even deeper there were many environmental violations which was crazy considering that this guy was trying to save the planet and I just realized elon's project is Elon and it's not about anyone else a secret whistleblower approaches Lynette To discuss the waste issues within Tesla as he was working in the factory he

saw all the waste all the incompetence it was a whole mess he emailed Elon Musk and said look our manufacturing process is so disjointed and Elon did respond to that email and say yes at Tesla we need to lower our scrap count this is crucial and that's when I realized how damaging what I had written actually was Lynette publishes an article based on Confidential documents leaked to her by The Whistleblower reporting that 40% of the raw materials used to produce the batteries needed to be scrapped or reworked automakers around the world have really minimal scrap

and here with Tesla its share price beating all these Legacy automakers and they waste hundreds of millions of dollars on waste that to me was also something investors should know well it's not something you see every Day a well-known CEO calling out a reporter publicly but that's exactly what happened last week when Tesla founder Elon Musk criticized business insiders Lynette Lopez over her her coverage of the company Lynette Lopez is with us in studio today this all started because musk took issue with a story that you posted on Business Insider on June 4th what my

reporting indicates is that the mission of Tesla is not really quite in line with the manufacturing of Tesla which is to say after that article that's when Elon started harassing me on Twitter all of his fans are stalking me and making fun of me and pretty soon after that he started looking into the person who might be uh feeding me this information after some internal investigations The Whistleblower is located it's a worker on the assembly line called Martin trip leaking internal documents to the Press is in breach of his contract and he is fired but

the After effects of the spat still rumble on at one point the Nevada police are called and are told Martin is on his way to the gigafactory with G put your hands in your back you're not under arrest just check in your for weapons okay you don't have any guns on no mind if I just pat you down real quick just search right this get so blowing out of he was whistleblowing about all the waste and uh there's um like 732 cars that have Problem they keep saying that I'm like stealing data still and night

I'm not that smart gotcha no well don't worry it uh we just want to find out what's going on because everybody such big lies for Martin this situation was a disaster it upended his home life he couldn't work for a very long time Elon did what he did to Martin to make sure that everyone at Tesla understood the consequences of speaking to the Press Two Weeks Later Elon will Once again find himself in the middle of a new story but this time it's an event on the other side of the world as the water continued

to rise the equipment for a serious diving operation was transferred by hand and by hoist deep into the cave in the Tam luang cave in Northern Thailand 12 boys and their football coach are trapped the world becomes gripped by the story waiting to see if they can be rescued Alive but it remains unclear how they're going to get the children out without the boys needing to use scuer equipment despite the mounting issues for Elon he decides to Al at some of his Engineers to build a mini submarine that he believes can save the stranded children

the out of the way back all right let's call him all the way out Elon flies to Thailand to talk to the Thai rescue team and deliver his mini submarine but as he arrives the Rescue is already underway the 13 trapped people are successfully rescued British cave diver Vernon unsworth is at the heart of the rescue and is unimpressed by elon's submarine the submarine I believe was about 5' 6 long rigid so it wouldn't have gone around corners or round you know around any obstacles it wouldn't have made the first 50 m into the cave

from from the dive start point just just a pasta irritated by The Rescuer comments Elon Takes to Twitter I think when Elon tweets he just goes what's in his mind at the moment some I understand and some I don't when Twitter first started I used to call it naughty Twitter fingers cuz I'd be like please don't like stop like don't don't there's no need to do that don't do that 3 Days Later Elon returns to Twitter and apologizes but for Vernon the damage has already been done Vernon's worth a hero of the rescue should have

been enjoying This morning's cave cleansing ceremony instead he was fuming it's not finished what is your sense of this trial as it begin ex we got to get into the what how has it damaged you Vernon decides to sue Elon 18 months later they face each other in court what is expected to be a fiery trial hitting the richest man in Los Angeles against a British cave expert now did Elon Musk imply Vernon unsworth was a pedophile and did he take quote reasonable care to determine Whether that was true before he said it jury's going

to have to decide that he musk was described in court as a billionaire bully but the jury saw it differently they said the Tweet was an insult but not an accusation Vernon went toe-to-toe with a billionaire bu bully not many people have the courage to do that it's a combination of he doesn't realize quite what the impact of his words are going to be in a lot of cases and in a lot of other cases I just don't Think he cares how Mr M with the decision everyone as well thank you all that is why

he's so dangerous on Twitter because he's a powerful person who is completely totally irresponsible elon's Twitter account is now one of the biggest in the world he has 22 million followers check check 1 2 3 test 1 23 on August the 7th he sends a tweet saying that he is thinking of taking Tesla private by buying out other shareholders this inflates Tesla's stock Price evening everybody thanks for joining us here is Stephanie vacin and Steven pin co-directors of enforcement uh they'll deliver opening remarks and then take a few questions so I'll hand it over we

start with the Tweet heard around the world or at least around Wall Street CEO Alan musk creating chaos with a single tweet which led to the stock soaring and then being halted and then soaring once again today the SEC filed Securities fraud charges against Elon Musk the chairman and CEO of Tesla Motors stemming from from his August 7th 2018 statements disseminated over Twitter that he was considering taking Tesla private I see a something what about the after the court case Elon agrees to settle there is a $20 million fine he steps down as the chairman

of Tesla and agrees to have his tweets checked before they are sent thank you very much thank you very much have you had any of your tweets Censored since the settlement no none does someone have to read them before they go out no so your tweets are not supervised the the only tweets that would have to be say reviewed would be if if a tweet had a probability of causing a movement in the stock but how do they know if it's going to move the market if they're not reading all of them before you send

them I guess we might make some mistakes who knows are you serious he perfect look at you I I I I want want to be clear I do not respect the SEC I do not respect them one of the things about Elon Musk is that he hates when other people win he hates when people more than anything I think he hates when people bet against him I think it's it's like a real thing for him I think that what Elon realized after his 420 tweet was okay I got to be careful like I don't need

to cause this havoc and this Mayhem but at the same time like they can't stop me there was a Tweet afterwards where he said that he had a new acronym for what the SEC stood for it was suck elon's yeah he really likes to [ __ ] with them that's the most powerful person in the world right there but it was definitely a defining moment for Elon and I think after that he he was kind of just over it all he was just done with it and and that was it he just started doing whatever

he really wanted to billionaire Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX Fame like we've never seen him Before smoking pot on YouTube so is that a joint or is it a cigar no okay it's marijuana inside of tobacco okay so it's like Posh tobacco PA you never had that yeah I think I tried one once come on man you probably can't because stockholders right Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the subject of a new controversy after he appeared to smoke marijuana during a podcast interview billionaire Tesla head Elon Musk what is he up to we know what

he's up to once again seeming To dare people to call him out I think the concern is his ego why did he make himself you know smoking pot with Joe Rogan the fact that he tried to make a mini submarine to save those boys in Thailand stop making yourself the news thing we tend to not stop you not so much you can't sleep but but you wake up you go to bed with it in your head you wake up with it in your head you you you you you you focus on it entirely continually to

the point that that you Might forget to eat and and and and not ever you know you can't get the person to say look quit quit now quit now stop this you know it's a kind of passion or or something that possesses you to just keep on trying keep on trying after his divorce from Tula Riley Elon dates Amber herd but in 2018 he appears at the Met Gala with ginds an electr popart artist over the Elon Musk and Grimes Mets in the Modern way through Twitter they both made a similar nerdy joke about a

scary AI theory of the future called Roo's basilisk which I don't really even get and that her interests are all the same as his and that her music is very technologically oriented I think for me to even spend more than 20 minutes on I have to get to that place where I'm like o I feel it like I might sit down like on a day that I'm going to write and just do like start a beat oh I hate it Throw it out start a beat oh I hate it throw it out start a beat

oh ha it throw it out and then finally like something you know just pressing enough buttons and enough Keys like you I hear something I'm like okay I could Loop that and that could be you know I'm fascinated by their relationship if I could be the fly on the wall in any relationship that we know in this world from the moment they got together I was always like God I Would love to be in the room with them Grimes and Elon have had two children together exod dark siderial and ex Ash [Music] A2 she told

me repeatedly that musk has this theory of her that she's not real that she's a simulation who was created by Him and exists in his cerebral cortex as sort of the perfect companion for him which sounds a little crazy and maybe even a little creepy except she agrees With it she said that she does feel like in some way she's like this simulation who was perfectly created for him I think Elon is busier than I've ever been and even when I'm with him I don't see him much unless I sit in the back of the

meetings uh but then a wife or girlfriend doesn't have that and so they really don't see him much at all these are steps towards a new era of space flight and this is the rocket built by SpaceX a company about to make history By carrying people into space and there they are NASA astronauts Doug on the left Bob on the right now they are getting into the Tesla Model X that's going to take them to the Launchpad being strapped into their seats and those Falcon Wing doors are closed super Sleek with the imminent launch of

the crude Dragon spacecraft president Trump has flown in to witness a day of national importance I just want to say this is a very exciting day for our Country I want to thank Elon for who's been a friend of mine for a long time somebody have great respect for but uh this is 24/7 for you you're always thinking about this you're thinking about other things too you have plenty to think about but this has been your baby in fact I've told my team it's not simply the top priority it is the only priority that's great

te 15 seconds this will be the first time a private company has attempted to transport astronauts Into space Elon will be fulfilling his contract with the US government and NASA 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 zero Li of the Falcon L and crew dragon Go NASA go SP X God speed spot flying crew on board dragon F to n and look at him go he's one of our great brains we like great brains and elon's done a fantastic job and this is just the beginning they're going to Mars and I think

any one of you would say that was an inspiration to see what We just saw right now everything continuing to look good well everyone welcome aboard Dragon uh my name is Doug next to me is Bob you probably know him we have Bob bin from SpaceX demo 2 mission entering the International Space Station boost Landings have started followed by Dougley right station I uh I will tell you the whole world saw this Mission and we are so so proud of everything you have done for our country and in fact to Inspire the world we sure

appreciate that sir it's obviously been our honor to be just a small part of this we have to give credit to space we're just really glad to be on board this uh magnificent complex 3 2 1 ignition Starship is the tallest and most powerful launch vehicle ever built 6 minutes 10 seconds into flight we're down beneath one it is designed to be fully reusable FP the vehicle vertical then Transition to one engine for the landing burn Landing the 100 T spacecraft proves challenging but on the fifth attempt the engineers at SpaceX crack it Starship is

the spacecraft that will fulfill elon's Ultimate Dream of flying to Mars so this is I think the the most inspiring thing that I've ever seen we're faced with a choice which future do you want do you want the future where we become a space bring civilization and are in many worlds and out there Among the Stars or One where we are forever confined to Earth and I say it is the first he wants to be known as the greatest engineer that we have seen in our lifetimes he genuinely wants to move humankind forward and he

wants us to challenge ourselves that is a more exciting future for humankind from his standpoint than one where Where We Are Forever anchored to Earth no question he's going to go to Mars why do you think he's doing the boring company he's doing the boring Company he's going to send one up there so he can bore underground and you can have some shade he's he's why do you think he's doing electric because you can use solar up there in Mars and you can solar the battery battery to vehicle battery to home why do you think

he's doing that because you got to have that you can't go up there and plug something in there's a much bigger picture in in elon's mind than what mere mortals are aware of today But when you step back and you look at it some way or another it all goes together let's make this real just make this real and i' I've also learned and and I think a lot of people have learned if he says it's like it's he can do it he's probably you know don't discount Elon don't say no to Elon you you

know he's that you're going to lose you're going to lose we all know how the media treats you so well yeah so I have a Question for you today I just want to say on behalf of my six-year-old at home Kyler Scott that's watching right now who thinks you're awesome as well thank you for making the world a better place thank you in the summer of 2022 Elon has over a 100 million followers on Twitter I think Tesla you know would continue to do very well even if I was kidnapped by aliens or or went

went back to my home planet Maybe when are you taking us this real soon how soon he is now the richest man in the world and has become a divisive character many believe he should spend his billions helping to solve the problems on Earth you asking those billionaires who are going to space the lights of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to help every 4 seconds someone's dying out there from Hunger related causes wake up smell the coffee and help the days when these guys not only get to Rake it all in but then rub everybody

else's nose in it while they head off into outer space and declare how they did this all on their own when they were subsidized by the federal government and subsidized by every waitress and by every public school teacher who paid their taxes this is wrong Elon is really dedicated to saving this planet I'm happy to say that SpaceX and Tesla on the hands of my brilliant Son Well genius son we admire him for that we Don't want to be him because with those companies he gets a lot of hate stop being mean to him I

hate it when the media are mean to him why didn't you use the money to do something for charity philanthropy more good with that money well I do do a lot of things uh philanthropically and really you know my my company are intended to uh do good for the future of humanity with the Tesla trying to accelerate uh the Advent of sustainable transport and and energy He gets up every morning thinking what can I do for Humanity today how can I do something that will be impactful to humanity of the future that's what he that's

what he's focused on I told him not to Take On The World and the universe and he didn't listen Elon Elon is not going to buy Twitter now he's got himself a mess you know he said the other day oh I've never voted for a republican I said I didn't know that he told me he voted for me so he's Another [ __ ] artist but he's not going to be buying it he not going to be buying it although he might later who the hell knows what's going to happen everything about Elon is a

contradiction there's this incredible inventor and then there's this person who makes some pretty silly business decisions Elon and these a lot of these Tech guys are just casting themselves as heroes in their favorite sci-fi novels a lot of those books are dark they're About a hero who saves the world from dystopia of course if you're going to be that hero dystopia has to exist first I do have some dark dreams I don't know why I've always had those from when I was a kid vivid dreams which are often scary in elon's mind that dystopia is

coming and they want to be that hero and the work that they do is to aize that Vision it's not about you or me and it's not even about the truth of what's going to happen to our planet it's just really A monument to their childhood he learned everything about Tesla Einstein like he has learned everything that they knew and he's trying to take it to the next level so I think he is the closest thing that we have to that kind of a figure in our day and age and I think by the time

he is done building his legacy it will be unquestionable that he is a combination of Einstein Tesla and Rockefeller when you set out to do something incredibly hard there's going To be like a lot of hard days that go along with that okay thank you you tweeted that you are building a tunnel under Washington DC why what is it well it's a secret plot just between us there's parts of him that you'll never know like what motivates him how did he get so strong a will you but what I can say without a doubt is

he's genuine there like there is not a shred of that in my mind there Isn't an ulterior motive or a secret greedy you know I'm going to have my you know volcano island and do whatever like no he he he leads with his heart on his sleeve in a very honest I would say almostly overly honest projection of both opportunity and risk we're all going to die someday and if you're going to pick some place to die die then why not Moss