Elon Musk

Co-Founder, Technoking of Tesla, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Tesla

Search every verified Elon Musk interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In June 2026, SpaceX went public on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX in what was described as the largest initial public offering in history. Musk, speaking at the IPO event, said he had initially given SpaceX less than a 10% chance of succeeding. He stated that the company's goal is to "take the fiction out of science fiction" and make humanity a multi-planetary civilization. Musk said SpaceX wants to be able to take "anyone who wants to go to the moon, anyone who wants to go to Mars, or anywhere in the solar system" and not just a few astronauts. He also said that "there are always problems on Earth" that should be solved, but that there also need to be things that "get you excited about the future." In a separate interview with SpaceX employees, Musk discussed plans to build and operate AI satellites in space, describing them as simpler than Starlink satellites. He said the company aims to launch a million tons of mass to orbit per year within about three years using Starship. Musk also mentioned a long-term concept of using a mass driver on the Moon to accelerate AI satellites into deep space. In other appearances, Musk discussed Neuralink's brain-computer interface, stating that the first product, called "Telepathy," allows a patient to control a computer by thinking. He also predicted that artificial general intelligence could arrive around 2029 or 2030, when digital compute may exceed the cumulative biological compute of higher-level brain functions.