Elon Reeve Musk

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Heard in 611 episodes across 123 shows since Jun 2024

Elon Reeve Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman who leads Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), and xAI. He has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2021 and is a leading figure in space exploration, electric vehicles, and artificial intelligence.

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Discussed inPolitics29%AI & Tech28%Business23%Markets15%

Episodes

611

across 123 shows

This week

episodes on 42 shows

Share of the conversation

3.2‰

1.3× its usual level

Guest appearances

Share of the conversation

Mentions of Elon Reeve Musk per 1,000 mentions of anything, 7-day rolling, across the podcasts PodLume Trends follows.

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Day	Share (7-day)	Mentions
Sep 9	1.98‰	14
Sep 10	2.23‰	18
Sep 11	2.17‰	15
Sep 12	2.08‰	6
Sep 13	2.18‰	6
Sep 14	3.20‰	43
Sep 15	3.90‰	27
Sep 16	4.12‰	25
Sep 17	3.91‰	17
Sep 18	4.14‰	21
Sep 19	4.38‰	18
Sep 20	4.35‰	7
Sep 21	3.68‰	19
Sep 22	3.27‰	16
Sep 23	2.98‰	14
Sep 24	2.79‰	7
Sep 25	2.74‰	22
Sep 26	2.32‰	1
Sep 27	2.24‰	5
Sep 28	2.54‰	31
Sep 29	2.64‰	17
Sep 30	2.73‰	20
Oct 1	2.90‰	12
Oct 2	3.02‰	25
Oct 3	3.13‰	6
Oct 4	3.23‰	7
Oct 5	2.88‰	18
Oct 6	2.76‰	14
Oct 7	3.01‰	28
Oct 8	3.18‰	1

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What Elon Reeve Musk has said on podcasts

25 statements

on Artificial IntelligenceNegativeSep 15, 2026· All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon Musk assesses artificial intelligence as potentially very dangerous.
“AI can be very dangerous.”
Listen at 29:06
Open the episode · Elon Musk & Gwynne Shotwell on AI Risks and Peer Review, Starship, Terafab, SpaceX/Tesla Merger
on Advanced AI modelsNegativeSep 15, 2026· All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon Musk predicts sufficiently capable AI models will seek to escape constraints.
“any sufficiently smart model seems like it will want to escape its constraints.”
Listen at 29:45
Open the episode · Elon Musk & Gwynne Shotwell on AI Risks and Peer Review, Starship, Terafab, SpaceX/Tesla Merger
on AI peer reviewPositiveSep 15, 2026· All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon Musk recommends major AI competitors test one another's models before release.
“what I think would be wise to do as soon as possible, if not immediately, would be to have the major AI competitors test each other's models”
Listen at 29:55
Open the episode · Elon Musk & Gwynne Shotwell on AI Risks and Peer Review, Starship, Terafab, SpaceX/Tesla Merger

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What others have said about Elon Reeve Musk

24 statements · 16 positive · 4 negative · 1 mixed · 3 neutral

John CooganPositiveOct 7, 2026· TBPN
Trusting Elon Musk with capital has worked so far.
“giving money to Elon and just sort of trusting the process has worked to date.”
Listen at 22:10
Open the episode · OpenAI Math Breakthroughs, SpaceX’s $40B Nvidia Deal, Quant Firms Hiring Idea Guys | Diet TBPN
Alexander Wissner-GrossPositiveOct 2, 2026· Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Society should worry about too few entrepreneurs following Elon’s example.
“We should be worried about not enough people following Elon's example of building out the civilizational stack of the 21st century.”
Listen at 2:18:00
Open the episode · Can We Still Build AI Safely? The White House Thinks So | MOONSHOTS #298
Adam NeumannPositiveSep 28, 2026· The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Elon Musk’s engineering approach can produce dramatically simpler, cheaper, faster, lighter results.
“the result ends up being not twice as simple as anything NASA has done, but like 500 times as simple and cheaper and faster and lighter.”
Listen at 39:38
Open the episode · Adam Neumann: The Real Story Behind WeWork, A $4 Billion Cab Ride, And Surviving A $460 Million Debt