Elon Musk is the founder and CEO of Space X and Tesla. He is also co-founder of The Boring Company and founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. Musk is the wealthiest person in the world and an outstanding entrepreneur. He recently took a 9% stake in Twitter and is known for his sometimes outrageous tweets.
An interesting Elon Musk's quote which would resonate with the investors:
Great companies are built on great products.
In the video below, Musk talks about AI and U.S. Innovation with WSJ. Key takeaways are:
Stay grounded - Tesla management office is within the factor premise or factory operations
Focus on what you can control - He doesn't want to depend on or focus on government incentives
Role of government
Government is the biggest corporation with a monopoly on violence with no recourse
Referee and not a player on the field
Like a corporation, the government can't perpetually run in deficit: need to reduce spending or subsidies
Autonomous cars could increase traffic rather than reduce it
Interesting thoughts on US-China rivalry