Elon Musk trillionaire SpaceX IPO Peter Diamandis interview

    by Gigliola: Elon Musk

    Elon Musk has officially become the world's first trillionaire, following SpaceX's record-breaking IPO. We sat down with XPRIZE founder Peter Diamandis, who has known Musk personally for 26 years, and asked him one question: Are we in good hands if Elon leads the future of AI? Watch the full interview here: #ElonMusk #SpaceX

    Transcript (en)

    There's like these figureheads that seem to be the face of AI and the biggest ones being Elon, who's a friend of yours, right? So as someone who knows him personally, what is he like and are we in good hands if he wins this whole thing? I've known him for 26, 27 years now. He is one of the most brilliant individuals on the planet. You know, his mission is not to become a trillionaire. His mission is to build amazing things that help uplift humanity. I've seen it firsthand over and over again, right? He got into electric vehicles and solar with SolarCity because, you know, when I met him in 99, 2000, he had, you know, he was just selling PayPal to eBay and he had cashed out and he was like, okay, what am I going to do with this money? And he's like, what are the two most important things humanity needs? It's we need to become a multi-planetary species and I'm going to focus on space. He knew nothing about space right And literally learned everything he needed to out of aerospace textbooks and hiring amazing people And then it was like we need to build an energy economy We need to get electric vehicles, autonomy and and solar. And. He's driven by the desire to make the world a better place. and I've seen him in the most one-on-one laid-back late-night dinner sessions and he is who he is. He's a big dreamer and it's not about anything other than can I move things fast enough to make a difference? So yeah, I think I feel more safe with him. Hey, you made it to the end of the clip. That means you're probably enjoying this. And if so, just know that you can catch us live every Tuesday and Thursday at 12 p.m. Eastern. And if you want to see the full version of this episode, you can click the link in the description down below.