“We should be excited about the future & striving to go beyond the horizon!”

That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!

Great companies are built on great products.

Don’t be afraid of new arenas.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

Getting there was super hard. Very proud of Tesla team!

Great companies are built on great products.

Don’t be afraid of new arenas.

As a child I would just question things.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.