Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about | TED | Tesla Texas Gigafactory interview

To achieve Model 3 volume production, Elon spent 3 years sleeping on the factory floor, in the trenches, with his team and workers. “It was the longest period of excruciating pain in my life […] but it had to be done, or Tesla would be dead” “I think at this point, I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth” – Elon Musk

Mark Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp with a dual-share ownership structure that ensures Mark Zuckerberg the 14th will still control those entities, “like literally“ We won’t have that at Twitter” - Elon Musk

lon intends to retain as many shareholders as is allowed by the law in a private company, as opposed to maximizing his ownership of Twitter. While he can technically afford to pay out shareholders, it’s about having a public platform that is broadly inclusive and maximally trusted. “It’s extremely important to the future of civilization, I don’t ca... See more

“A sign of free speech is that someone you don’t like is allowed to say something you don’t like” – Elon Musk

Elon’s proposal for a world view/ motivating philosophy: “Understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe” To that end, Elon aims to “Expand the scope and scale of consciousness so that we may better understand the nature of the universe”

Tesla estimates the global transition to sustainable energy requires 300TWh of battery capacity, 1000x the current installed capacity

If Musk has his way, Twitter will get an edit button. It will likely have a timeout and will zero all retweets and favorites. That said, Elon’s most urgent priority is to eliminate scam and spam bot armies on Twitter