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Elon Musk BioSnap

Elon Musk BioSnap

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 Discover the dynamic world of Elon Musk with "Elon Musk - BiSnap," a compelling podcast that serves as a living biography, offering weekly updates on Musk's ventures, innovations, and personal anecdotes. Stay informed on the latest developments from Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and more, while exploring Musk's journey and visionary impact on the future. Ideal for tech enthusiasts and those fascinated by a remarkable life story, this podcast keeps you connected to all things Elon Musk.

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  • Elon's Trillion-Dollar Gambit: Tesla, Politics, and the Quest for Control

    Elon's Trillion-Dollar Gambit: Tesla, Politics, and the Quest for Control
    Sep 14 2025
    Elon Musk BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.

    In the past few days, Elon Musk has managed to keep headlines spinning with an intensity matching his own hyperactive career. The most consequential development is Tesla’s board proposing a staggering 1 trillion dollar pay package, a potential record-breaker at ten times the size of his controversial 2018 deal. Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm defended the package in interviews with Bloomberg and The New York Times, framing it as crucial for keeping Musk laser-focused on Tesla’s ultra-ambitious targets: ramping market value to 8.5 trillion over the next decade, selling 12 million cars, and putting a million robotaxis on the road. While observers have questioned the optics of such a reward amid falling Tesla profits and sliding EV market share, Denholm insisted it’s about future performance, not past results, and notably acknowledged that Musk is drawn more by voting power than further personal riches. Still, she revealed Musk has made "genuine" threats to quit if he isn't assured greater control at Tesla, making this compensation plan something of a power play as much as a paycheck.

    Tesla’s pivot to AI and robotics is central to this narrative, with Musk claiming Optimus humanoid robots and self-driving technology could drive 80 percent of Tesla’s future value. There’s even a buzz about Tesla taking an equity stake in Musk’s AI startup xAI, following a regulatory filing and the recent integration of xAI’s Grok AI into Tesla vehicles. Yet Musk’s sprawling commitments remain non-stop—alongside Tesla, he still helms SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company, and now xAI, the latter of which laid off hundreds from its data annotation team just this week, according to Business Insider.

    Musk’s political entanglements also continue to shake markets and rattle stakeholders. On Friday, he made a joint appearance with President Donald Trump at a White House press conference, a rare spectacle that has fueled rumors of further collaboration and sparked debate about Musk’s influence in American politics. Tesla’s board chair responded to analyst concerns, bluntly stating there are no restraints on Musk’s political activities, and doubling down that what matters is his performance as CEO. This, as Tesla continues to grapple with backlash—sales are down, the brand remains polarized, and vandalism has even struck showrooms.

    Musk’s headline-grabbing didn’t stop in Washington. In London, his surprise video message at the massive Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom rally called for “revolutionary change,” painting Britain in lurid colors and urging crowds to fight for their futures, a move that drew both cheers and intense media criticism.

    Socially, Musk remains a trending topic daily, whether it’s for court drama over his previous compensation, for Twitter/X banter, or for dropping down wealth rankings, with Bloomberg knocking him off the world’s richest slot—now occupied by Larry Ellison—as Oracle stock soars and Tesla stock languishes.

    All told, Musk’s mix of boardroom drama, AI ambitions, political provocations, and social media omnipresence shows no sign of cooling. Whether or not major investors embrace his latest trillion dollar bid for control, this is a week where Musk’s lifelong pursuit of maximum leverage—for himself and his companies—remains the story.

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    4 mins
  • Elon Musk's Trillion-Dollar Tesla Plan Ignites Controversy and Protests

    Elon Musk's Trillion-Dollar Tesla Plan Ignites Controversy and Protests
    Sep 7 2025
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    Elon Musk has dominated tech headlines yet again, this time with a historic splash: on September 5, Tesla’s board unveiled a long-term compensation plan that could see Musk pocket a staggering one trillion dollars if he achieves a set of extraordinary goals by 2035, according to Fortune and the Los Angeles Times. These targets—ranging from boosting Tesla’s market cap from $2 trillion to an unprecedented $8.5 trillion, to deploying one million robotaxis and selling ten million FSD subscriptions—are considered so aggressive that even Wall Street analysts have dubbed the package “Fantasyland.” If approved, Musk would not just break records; he could become the world’s first trillionaire, but the challenges are enormous, especially given Tesla’s recent stock slump, significant profit decline, and major sales drops in Europe, reportedly linked to Musk’s political alliances and outspoken support for President Trump.

    Public exposure hasn’t slowed: while Tesla shares rose 5 percent after news of the plan broke, Musk stayed busy both in the lab and online. Video recaps on YouTube—like Jacob Hilton’s tracker series—detail Musk’s social media activity over the past 48 hours, with notable posts about Neuralink, xAI, Tesla’s Optimus robot, and a newly deployed matte-black Optimus working at a Tesla-owned diner. Musk’s political commentary remains a storm front, with sixteen posts crossing topics from government policy to global conflicts, fueling both controversy and ardent support on X, formerly Twitter.

    The political tension reached a visible peak this week when President Trump hosted Silicon Valley’s elite for a White House tech dinner—an event Musk skipped despite being invited, as reported by CBS News and the Los Angeles Times. Sources indicate Musk’s absence stems from an ongoing feud with Trump after Musk’s brief stint in a government cost-cutting effort, though Musk insisted on social media it was simply a scheduling issue. The dinner drew Apple’s Tim Cook, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, and Google’s Sundar Pichai, solidifying Musk’s unique outsider-insider status in the tech world.

    Meanwhile, activist groups staged coordinated protests at Tesla locations nationwide on September 6, taking aim both at Musk’s increasing political clout and his controversial statements. Events branded as “Tesla Takedown” and protests denouncing a so-called “fascist government takeover” were staged in cities from Boston to Santa Monica, underscoring how Musk’s fortunes, ambitions, and persona have kept him at the heart of global debate—one headline or tweet at a time.

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    3 mins
  • Elon's $10T Robot Bet: Tesla's Optimus Pivot Sparks Debate

    Elon's $10T Robot Bet: Tesla's Optimus Pivot Sparks Debate
    Sep 3 2025
    Elon Musk BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.

    Elon Musk has once again dominated headlines with his bold assertions about Tesla’s future, high-profile business maneuvers, an emphasis on robotics, and social media flurries that keep fans and critics alike riveted. According to Fortune and confirmed by multiple sources, Musk just declared publicly that Optimus—the humanoid robot Tesla debuted in 2021—will comprise an estimated 80 percent of Tesla’s total value in the coming years. He posted on X, the platform he owns, that this robotics project “will eventually be worth north of $10 trillion in revenue”—a staggering figure and arguably his most ambitious projection to date. Musk’s pivot from electric vehicles to “physical AI” was underlined in the recently released Tesla Master Plan, Part IV, which promises to usher in a new era of “sustainable abundance,” a phrase he reposted and touted in recent days. Analysts and technologists are taking these claims seriously after reports that manufacturing thousands of Optimus bots could begin as soon as this year, though the timeline remains speculative given persistent supply chain and engineering setbacks.

    This week also saw the much-discussed debut of the new Optimus Gen 3.5, with Musk confirming its public unveiling is set for the end of this year and declaring it could be the signature version that brings the whole vision together. Tesla insiders point out that the bot’s hands alone have been redesigned four times in two years, indicating the breakneck speed at which development is moving, but also perhaps alluding to technical difficulties behind the scenes. Meanwhile, Nvidia’s CEO praised Tesla’s approach to neural networks for robotics and noted Tesla’s continued massive chip purchases, reinforcing the long-term symbiosis between Tesla’s automotive and robotics divisions.

    Tesla’s future, however, isn’t without turbulence. TechCrunch and other outlets report Tesla abruptly shuttered its ambitious Dojo supercomputer project last month, a move Musk characterized as a strategic pivot toward external chip partnerships, most notably a $16.5 billion contract with Samsung to develop high-performance AI chips for both Optimus and Tesla’s next-generation Full Self Driving systems. This pivot has sparked debates: some call it a necessary focus, while critics frame it as another high-profile Musk promise abandoned in the face of mounting technical and financial hurdles.

    On the social scene, Musk remains unfiltered on X, weighing in on everything from UK and EU politics to the recent viral posts about the wildly popular Tesla Diner opening, which saw crowds and extraordinary demand during its launch week. At the same time, protest movements against Musk’s growing influence, as seen outside the Palo Alto Tesla showroom, are gathering steam. Demonstrators have called for a boycott of Tesla products and have referenced the more than $800 billion in value Tesla has lost over the past three months, as noted by BBC and Yahoo Finance. In sum, as Musk doubles down on an AI and robotics-centric vision, he’s facing both resurgent investor hopes and loud, organized public dissent, proving—once again—that whatever he does, it will make news.

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    4 mins
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