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What advice do you give young people / entrepreneurs?
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First asked Oct 5, 2023, most recently Nov 30, 2025. Excerpts below are from machine transcripts with filler words (um, uh, you know) and stutters removed; … marks a cut. They are not checked word for word, so use the link to hear the exact words, or the transcript link for the raw text. Timestamps: 0 cross-checked against YouTube captions, 4 from the archive transcript only. X has no link-to-time option, so X links open at the start.
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Oct 5, 2023 · International Astronautical Congress · asked by Interviewer
Q: Anything you can say to them about pursuing a career in space or what motivated you to do all the things that you're doing?
Yeah, I mean I'm interested in that which further civilization and I think we want to expand the scope and scale of consciousness so as to better understand the nature of the universe and even to understand which questions to ask. Like one of the most inspiring books I've read was the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where they're trying to understand the meaning of life in the Hitchhiker's Guide. And the, I mean …
Oct 20, 2024 · America PAC Town Hall: Pittsburgh, PA · asked by Audience
Q: Or how do you get the mental fortitude to listen to all of that advice, process it, realize you're probably going to fail and go ahead and do it in spite of the fear?
Yeah, I mean, when starting SpaceX and Tesla people said, you're probably going to fail. And I agreed with them. I said, yeah, I think the probability of success is less than 10%. But I felt if we didn't try to do something radical in space and with electric cars, then nothing was happening. Like the existing big companies were not innovating. Like the cost of access to space was actually increasing every year in …
Oct 26, 2024 · America PAC Town Hall: Lancaster, PA · asked by Audience
Q: And from an employer standpoint, in 10 to 15 years, what do you think employers are going to be looking for from this next generation that will be entering the workforce?
Sure. Well, I do think that probably too often people do a university or college thing for four years and it's unnecessary. And then they accrue a lot of debt and it's hard to pay off the debt. And they often don't learn skills that are very useful. So it's not I think we should really reconsider whether going to college actually makes sense. I think it doesn't always. So you know what I think. And people also …
Nov 30, 2025 · People by WTF · asked by Nikhil Kamath
Q: If you could speak to the people of my country, India, the young entrepreneurs who want to Build and say a message to them. What would you say?
Well, I think. I think I'm a big fan of anyone who wants to build. So I think anyone who wants to make more than they take has my respect. So that's the main thing is to import, aim to make more than you take, be a net contributor to society. It's kind of like the pursuit of happiness. If you want to create something valuable financially, you don't pursue that. It's best to actually pursue providing useful products …
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