Elon Musk on Elon Musk Thinking
In 2007 Interview, Elon Musk Predicted Everything!
Worth sampling as an early snapshot of ideas Musk would repeat for years, especially Tesla’s high-cost entry strategy and the technical comparison with Virgin Galactic. Skip if you already know his standard Mars, multiplanetary-life, and clean-energy arguments.
I mean this something I just point out about Tesla, which is we didn't you know Tesla is the first car is a sports car, not because we think the world lacks for a sports car, but because it is the right entry point for the market. If you have a new technology, the right place to enter is high unit cost, low unit volume. Just as you know when a new cell phone come out comes out, or a new a new laptop or or some some new thing, it tends to be expensive at first because they're figuring out all the issues and it takes time to optimize, and then over time that that technology will become cheaper and cheaper. And so the model two of Tesla, UH,
The interview presents Musk's early vision of using technology to address major human problems, especially sustainable transportation and expanding civilization beyond Earth. His strongest exchanges combine specific strategic explanations of SpaceX and Tesla with long-term goals involving Mars, electric vehicles, and clean energy.