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Is this a financial hallucination? @elonmusk was not even in the world’s top ten richest people until 2020. Now he is the world’s first trillionaire. It is absurd, but not fake. This was not some slow, stately climb through the billionaire league table. Musk crashed into the top ten during Covid, rode the Tesla mania, fell back when markets turned, then launched into another universe as SpaceX was marked at a much higher valuation. As others have pointed out to me, this wasn't luck. This was 24 years of SpaceX history being priced in by public markets, helped a bit by the addition of an AI business. That is the story in this animation. These are shares, private valuations, collateral, market mood and a huge wager on the future, all compressed into one ridiculous number: $1.3 trillion as of today. Once the financial system agrees to treat paper wealth as real, it becomes real enough. It can be borrowed against. It can be pledged. It can buy control, influence and time. It can decide which companies get funded, which technologies get built and which version of the future attracts capital. That is the mad part. Musk’s fortune is both real and ridiculous at the same time. Real, because markets, banks and investors have endorsed it. Ridiculous, because a large part of it can move violently when sentiment changes, a rocket explodes, Tesla rerates, or investors decide the future is worth a different price. This feels like a chart about modern wealth becoming stranger, faster and more detached from anything most people would recognise as money. What do you think? Music: Mr. C-137 by Basixx, Epidemic Sounds

This is why smart people rarely build businesses Jensen Huang stood in front of a room of Stanford graduates and told them he hopes they suffer. He wasn't being cruel. He was being precise. His argument: people with very high expectations have very low resilience. And resilience, not intelligence, is what decides who actually makes it. A Stanford grad has spent their whole life as the smartest person in the room. They've rarely been tested by real failure. So when something finally breaks, they break with it. Then he said the line every founder should sit with: "Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character. And character isn't formed out of smart people, it's formed out of people who suffered." He would know. At nine, Huang was scrubbing toilets at a Kentucky boarding school his family hadn't realized was a reform school. As a teenager he bussed tables at Denny's. In 1993 he started NVIDIA in a Denny's booth, and nearly lost it more than once in the years that followed. The character was built decades before the valuation showed up. This is why he uses the words "pain and suffering" inside NVIDIA with what he calls great glee. He isn't trying to shield his best people from the hard part. He's trying to give it to them on purpose. Talent gets you into the room. The people who stay are the ones who were broken once and learned they could rebuild.

Faith means believing God can make a way even where there seems to be none.

BREAKING: SpaceX is acquiring Cursor in a $60 billion all-stock deal. • Cursor is being valued at $60 billion • Cursor will become a wholly owned SpaceX subsidiary • Cursor shareholders will receive SpaceX Class A shares • The exchange ratio will be based on SpaceX’s 7-day average share price before closing • Subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions • Expected to close in Q3 2026 Cursor is one of the world’s leading AI coding platforms and one of the fastest-growing software companies. This marks one of the largest AI acquisitions ever and significantly expands SpaceX’s footprint in AI.

😂 🤣 😂 So I am trying to do some semi-complex calculations, involving Lagrange points, travel times using space ships from “The Expanse” (with the famous Epstein Drive—unrelated to the evil man), & both @grok & @GeminiApp by @google massively disagree. I am trying to figure out if there was a habitable world orbiting the largest known blue star (hyper giant R136a1), in obviously a habitable zone, how long it would take a ship traveling from Lagrange four point to the planet‽ Grok says the trip would take weeks to months, while Google Gemini says the trip would take a little over a week. When I put the explanation of each AI’s results in the other, both accused the other of hallucinating, & started correcting the other AI’s “errors” which was funny. Debating whether I should ask @Copilot for a third opinion. I would ask @AIatMeta but they do not support the iPad so… 👎🏾

I think SpaceX might be able to reach approximately $1T revenue in 2030

I agree.

The biggest decision in life that you will make is accepting Jesus into your life. The second is the spouse that you marry. I owe all of what I have to the above. My wife was the one who encouraged me to apply to @SpaceX when I already had job secured elsewhere after college. She encouraged me to move to Starbase and work on the Starship when I was very hesitant on doing so. She has supported me throughout multiple 7 day work weeks and 16 hour work days. Blessed and highly favored is an understatement.

On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history. The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet. Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention. He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette. He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents. A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.

.@Starcloud_ CEO @PhilipJohnston expects SpaceX to have a "near monopoly on launch" for the next 5–10 years: "Starship is way ahead of any other program." "The manufacturing that they're ramping up is insane—like building three Starships per day potentially with their gigafactories." "The problem with Blue Origin's rocket is, they don't have a reusable upper stage. As I understand, they're not even really trying to build a reusable upper stage." "The way they talk about pricing is they say, 'We will be as good as the next best price from Falcon 9.'" "Which, for people who don't know, the next best price from Falcon 9 is like 5x the price of Falcon 9."

Hagar Chemali SHUTS DOWN Bill Maher as he RAGES about Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire — and CALLS OUT Democrats like Zohran Mamdani for DEMONIZING the ultra-wealthy, brainwashing young people into hating capitalism and blaming it for all their problems Bill Maher: “Should you be able to have a trillionaire? Do you agree with that?” Hagar Chemali: “I don’t really have a problem with it because I don’t have a problem with how they made their money because they’ve grown these companies; they’ve built them… You don’t want people to feel that their very real economic suffering is because of the billionaires… I think there’s a danger in VIEWING the billionaires as the problem because it then leads from there people to say it’s our economic system that isn’t working. Therefore it’s capitalism that isn’t working... and you already see those seeds being planted. Mamdani, that’s his big argument.”

2040년. 월스트리트의 한 신입 애널리스트가 노교수에게 물었다. “교수님, 왜 사람들은 한때 Tesla와 SpaceX를 Apple, Google, Meta 같은 기업들과 같은 카테고리로 묶었던 건가요?” 노교수는 웃었다. “그건 농부와 카지노를 같은 산업으로 분류한 것과 비슷한 실수였지.” “무슨 뜻인가요?” 교수는 창밖을 가리켰다. “저 밖을 봐.” 수천 대의 로보택시가 도시를 움직이고 있었다. 공장에서는 휴머노이드 로봇이 일하고 있었다. 머리 위에는 수만 기의 통신 위성이 지구를 감싸고 있었다. 달에는 광산이 있었고 화성에는 첫 번째 도시가 건설되고 있었다. “저것들이 무엇으로 만들어졌는지 아니?” “기술이요?” “아니. 생산성이다.” 교수는 말을 이었다. “20세기와 21세기 초반의 대부분의 빅테크는 사람들의 시간을 두고 경쟁했다.” 더 오래 보게 만들고, 더 오래 클릭하게 만들고, 더 오래 머물게 만들고, 그 시간을 광고주에게 팔았다. 사람들이 하루에 1시간을 쓰던 것을 2시간 쓰게 만들면 성공이었다. 하지만 Tesla와 SpaceX는 반대였다. 그들은 인간의 시간을 뺏으려 하지 않았다. 오히려 돌려주려 했다. 운전 2시간을 없애고, 단순 노동 8시간을 없애고, 비싼 물류비를 없애고, 비싼 발사 비용을 없애고, 에너지 부족을 없애려 했다. “생각해 보게.” 교수는 종이에 두 줄을 적었다. 광고 기업: 인간의 시간을 소비 → 수익 창출 Tesla · SpaceX: 인간의 생산성 증가 → 수익 창출 “둘은 같은 기술 회사가 아니었어.” “그럼 무엇이었나요?” “문명을 확장하는 회사.” 교수는 잠시 침묵했다. “Google이 하루 동안 멈추면 불편하다.” “Meta가 하루 동안 멈추면 심심하다.” “하지만 전기가 부족하면 공장이 멈추고, 물류가 멈추면 경제가 멈추고, 우주 발사가 멈추면 인류의 확장이 멈춘다.” “차이가 보이나?” 신입 애널리스트는 고개를 끄덕였다. 교수는 마지막으로 말했다. “많은 사람들은 Tesla를 자동차 회사로 봤고, SpaceX를 로켓 회사로 봤다.” “하지만 시간이 지나고 보니 둘 다 같은 사업을 하고 있었어.” “인류 문명의 생산성을 높이는 사업.” “광고 회사들은 인간의 관심(attention)을 거래했다.” “Tesla와 SpaceX는 인간의 능력(capability)을 확장했다.” 그리고 2040년이 되자 사람들은 깨달았다. Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon은 훌륭한 기업이었다. 하지만 그들은 문명 위에서 사업을 했다. 반면 Tesla 와 SpaceX 는 문명 자체를 업그레이드하고 있었다. 그래서 어느 역사학자는 이렇게 기록했다. “21세기 초 사람들은 광고 회사와 문명 회사의 차이를 이해하지 못했다.” “그들은 모두를 빅테크라고 불렀지만, 사실은 전혀 다른 종(種)이었다.”

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CNN NewsNight has a meltdown over @ElonMusk becoming the world's first trillionaire. Cari Champion literally says people "shouldn't be allowed to have a trillion dollars." Scott Jennings shuts it down: "We already tax the rich... is it for us to sit around and say there's a limit on what you can build?" Classic left envy on full display. WATCH: Cari Champion: “There should be some checks and balances in this society. People shouldn't be allowed to have a trillion dollars.” @ScottJenningsKY: “Rich people in this country pay the vast majority of taxes, and I hear people today saying, "Oh, it's time that we tax the rich." Folks, I got news for you. We already tax the rich. But is it for us to sit around and say, "There's a limit on what you can build, there's a limit on what you can earn," and it's now my job to tell you what to do with your money?”

.@ScottJenningsKY just torched the liberal meltdown over Elon becoming the world's first trillionaire: “All day long, I've been listening to liberals, count and spend Elon's money for him. This envy, jealousy, hatred of success. Why is it immoral? Why is it wrong for somebody in our system, our capitalist system, in the greatest nation on earth, to go out and build a company, build companies, build technologies, go into space, aim to go put a colony on Mars, give internet to half the world, all the things he's doing? Why is any of this wrong or bad? Why would we want to discourage entrepreneurship? Why would we want to discourage anybody building anything?” Exactly. Success isn't a crime.

First Millionaire: John Astor (~early 1800s)
First Billionaire: John D. Rockefeller (1916)
First Trillionaire: Elon Musk (2026)

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

YouTube started as a dating site. $GOOGL Twitter started as a podcast platform called Odeo. (Private company) Instagram started as a check-in location app called Burbn. $META Marriott started as a root beer stand. $MAR IBM started with selling meat slicers, time clocks, and scales. $IBM Taco Bell started as a hot dog stand. $YUM Nintendo started as hand painted playing cards. $NTDOY Coca-Cola started as a morphine addiction cure. $KO Shell started as an antique shop that sold seashells. $SHEL Netflix started as a DVD-by-mail rental service. $NFLX Nestlé started as a baby food company. $NSRGY Berkshire Hathaway started as a failing cotton textile mill. $BRK.B AirBnB started as a platform to rent air mattresses inside someone’s apartment. $ABNB IKEA started with selling pens and wallets. (Private company) Colgate started with selling soap and candles. $CL Amazon started as an online bookstore. $AMZN 7-Eleven started as an ice delivery service. $SVNDY Sega started as a slot machine company for American military bases. $SGAMY Pfizer started as a fine chemicals company that accidentally invented Viagra while trying to make a heart medication for chest pain. $PFE Boeing started as a timber company. $BA Adidas and Puma started as the same exact shoe company. $ADDY / $PUMSY. Lamborghini started as a tractor company. Volkswagen Group owns Lamborghini. $VWAGY Louis Vuitton started as a luggage packing apprenticeship. $LVMUY Samsung started as a trading company selling noodles and dried fish. $SSNLF Nokia started as a paper mill. $NOK LEGO started as a woodworking and carpentry shop. (Private company) Raytheon started as a refrigerator company. $RTX BMW started making aircraft engines. $BMWYY Xerox started as a photographic paper company called the Haloid Company. $XRX Google started as a Stanford research project called BackRub. $GOOGL Slack started as a video game company with a game called Glitch. Salesforce acquired Slack in 2021. $CRM PayPal started as a software security company then pivoted to beam IOUs between Palm Pilots. $PYPL Shopify started as an online snowboard shop called Snowdevil. $SHOP Pixar started as a computer hardware division inside Lucasfilm. $DIS Starbucks started selling coffee beans and equipment, not a single latte. $SBUX Nike started as a shoe distributor called Blue Ribbon Sports. $NKE HP started making audio oscillators. Their very first customer was Walt Disney who bought eight of them for the film Fantasia. $HPQ Adobe started when two Xerox engineers quit to sell the technology Xerox didn’t believe in. $ADBE Gucci started with making saddles and leather goods. Kering SA owns Gucci. $PPRUY Tiffany & Co. started with selling stationery and fancy goods. Delisted in 2021 but acquired by LVMH (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton) who owns Louis Vuitton. $LVMUY LG (Lucky Goldstar) started as Korea’s first ever makeup cream. $LGEIY Gap started with selling records and Levi’s jeans $GPS American Express started as a courier delivery service. $AXP 3M started as a mining company called Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing $MMM Zara started with selling bathrobes. $IDEXY Hasbro started as a textile company selling hat liners and fabric remnants. $HAS Play-Doh started as a wallpaper cleaner. $HAS Wrigley started with selling soap and baking powder. (Private company) None of these companies had a master plan. They had an idea, intention, courage, and made the decision to just do something meaningful and impactful with it. Whatever it is, JUST START! You are wasting so much precious, irreplaceable time in your life: in your relationships, your health, your fitness, your creativity, your faith, your education, your career, your business ideas, your trading, your investing, your role as a parent…trying to have it “all figured out” in the beginning. The time you’re waiting for in “discernment” is the time you’re wasting. You’ll figure it out along the way.

It's a good news kinda day, y'all. First: My recent PET scan showed zilch. I'm officially cancer free (again) after progressing to stage 4. It's extremely weird how this all happened, and honestly it feels a bit like it's in the miracle realm. I'll write a more detailed post in the future, including receipts for anyone who's skeptical, but for now I'll just say thank you, Jesus. Second: My book appears to be available for pre-sale on Amazon. Those of you who like to hop on things immediately can pre-order, but I'm going to save the big marketing push for October (it comes out early November). I'm really excited for this one, y'all.