The TRUTH About Elon Musk--And Optimus Is Doing Real Work!

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[@brianp8384]

I've owned shares since 2012. Voted "yes" the first time, voted "yes" again.

[@Jasonfallen71]

Me too. Exciting to think about owning some SpaceX, XAI, Starlink etc Putting more funds into Elon projects…?! Eff yeah I’m buying. How about making the shares in a holding company like Berkshire and a couple hundred grand to keep nuisance, lawsuit filing “shareholders” out of the ownership group. Of course no one would say that - except this is Elon. Or just keep it private. Invite individuals privately. Don’t go public in any conventional sense. Elon won’t go public with a company he cares about ever again would he? Maybe he’s optimistic as am I that his compensation package will be reinstated by the US Supreme Court no matter what happens in appeals or with shareholder votes.

[@nedsilver6568]

i voted , it ONLY took 15 phone calls 4 FEDXs , 1 letter, over 10 days and a lot of patience.

[@Michael-il5wd]

Thank you, I also voted in favor with the board

[@roryreddog3258]

I had a Model S 85 in my driveway connected to WiFi the very night Autopilot got released in Australia in about November 2015. I got the message that it had been installed and suddenly my car could autosteer. It was surprisingly good

[@johnrahn2677]

Thanks, I loved the testimonials. In 2022 I started buying Tesla stock. Here's the reason: I looked at what other corporations in the USA were doing and I saw that most were just repeating what they had learned 100 years ago. Tesla and Elon Musk were actually changing the world for the better and doing it fast. I wanted to support that so I bought some stock. Right now I'm down about 10% and I don't care because this is what I SHOULD be doing. Elon Musk DESERVES to have more control over Tesla.

[@scott5770]

Elon is the greatest leader, smartest CEO, Visionary and I’m probably missing 7 other major things he’s incredible at….Photographic memory, he’s a real life “good doctor”

[@donnajeng999]

Thanks for sharing! My kids and I voted YES! We all support Elon! 👍👍👍

[@Ian.Does.Fitness]

It amazes me how so many people criticise Elon and say he just takes the credit for what others have done when it’s actually quite the opposite! The man has a deep understanding of the issues and has driven innovation in so many areas now for years! Let’s make sure Elon is properly compensated for the sacrifices he has made! 🙏

[@jcfallows]

That was a brilliant over view on Elon's work. Thank you

[@bluetoad2668]

I'm a holder for more than 5 years but here in Europe shares are often held by the broker instead of the actual owner - I'm concerned that I can't get identified as a long term owner

[@geirmyrvagnes8718]

My thought (and situation) exactly. They had to make a special one-time exception for us to vote. The financial systems in the USA and Europe are not very compatible. Wouldn't be surprised if there was some COBOL code down near the bottom of it somewhere.

[@iandavies4853]

There’s a chance this vote has broken a logjam to facilitate voting by retail investors. Farzad has fantastic video ~1 hr. One step of evolution.

[@jayarbe60]

@@geirmyrvagnes8718I work at a bank that, for legal reasons, is also my brokerage (I even have a hand in some of the back-office systems). Take it from me, it doesn’t take much digging for legacy mainframe code to appear.

[@julesgosnell9791]

"pathologically honest" - I've noticed the same - I put it down to his Aspergers - I have same - I find lying extremely stressful - it also makes your life really complicated, having to permanently remember what you have said and to whom. Much easier to always be as transparent as possible and not waste time and effort on deceit. If you are not good at doing something, don't do it.

[@restonthewind]

Musk is not a liar, but he is pathologically optimistic to the point of sometimes being a bullshit artist.

[@adriank8792]

I can't imagine how much it would suck to live in a world without Elon. The dream of a colony on Mars would still be just a dream, and not a matter of time. Elon is building a future I want to be a part of

[@iandavies4853]

Plus having robots / AGI as beneficial symbiotic companion species to humanity, having direct brain-computer interface. That’s Iain Banks brought to life.

[@user-tb1jy7rr9e]

Let’s go Elon 🎉🎉🎉

[@Michael-il5wd]

Thank you for your all your hard work to the community

[@johnbarber5891]

Remember the story of the Pied Piper? The WHOLE story? Interesting parallels.

[@GenRicOpekc]

Thank you!

[@wholenutsanddonuts5741]

Awesome. Thank you!

[@LoisSharbel]

Glad to see these posts! Agree 100%! I've voted my few shares!

[@edkalski2312]

Elon has said many times how important 'truth' is to him. I voted yes.

[@Michael-il5wd]

Hello Doc

[@brokkmann]

Dude you really got start making chapters...... I don't have time for this much video... but you make good content.. I just need to be able to get through the video and actually take the points I'm trying to hear from you.. I do my own research but I value high level opinions. What I don't value is waisting others time....

[@corresandberg]

I'm from Sweden 🇸🇪❤ worked as a programmer for various companies. And all have been operated as Elons companies. Almost no levels of management, no Ivory towers to important/owners. No "sir", "Mr" nor last name just the dudes first name even if he/she is a billionaire and a casual talk about something. This approach seems fascinating to most people but not for Swedes (or Fins, Norwegians or Danish) In Sweden there is a saying: Don't think your are special In old Warcraft III game the Orcs said "I work for the Horde" - that sums up the Scandinavian work culture

[@nongnoochdunn8296]

I agree with you dr

[@coachkevinyoung]

Where is the link to Dr. AI? I don’t find it in the description. Thanks!

[@markl3893]

Has Elon said when FSD for HW4 will run native instead of in a HW3 emulator?

[@DownunderGraham]

I think Starlink will only be considered for a separate spin off company only when Starship is making money. Until then Starlink is part of what is funding Starship.

[@frederickfaller899]

When it’s too tough for everyone else it’s just right for Elon Musk

[@basembarakat]

in 2015 used Mobileye.

[@iandavies4853]

Can we not call it compensation, nor pay? It’s a bit more persuasive power, more certainty of over-riding bureaucratic resistance of institutional shareholders. And that’s it. No one else has the breadth of knowledge & experience, the depth of commitment (both money & emotion).

[@craigwalsh1188]

When doing a text heavy KZbin video. Removed the menu bar + relevant people from the sides of the screen and enlarge the main text to be readable. Old eyes

[@williamwalsh4102]

Cannot find your AI channel

[@RacefanPat68]

How does starlink pay for mars if seperate??? The whole idea of starlink is to make money for development It may be seperated internally, as a management and reporting seperation, but if it's using falcons at internal cost, and providing money and services as a return, legal seperation is insane Insane! IMHO

[@curtisyoung7107]

😊

[@Digital-Dan]

Elon does tell the truth. That is good when the truth is good, not so good when he tells the truth about many of his less laudable attitudes. Sort of Jekyll/Hyde.

[@fedcba810]

🗳 voted

[@D0li0]

Why is there never a link to "my other channel" in the description so we can find it easily and not find some random impersonator???

[@D0li0]

Maybe I'll look again next time you mention your other channel and then find a link... I'd be thrilled to subscribe...

[@pauldaggett6759]

There is no doubt -> Elon SEES THE FUTURE!!

[@restonthewind]

He imagines a future, but science fiction is not rocket science even if rocket science is often its subject. We don't have hyperloops or semis driving themselves in convoys at lower cost than rail or Starships on their way to Mars to colonize the planet or even FSD robotaxis yet. Any of these things could happen in the future, and if you read science fiction, none of it surprises you.

[@Simplejidad]

The spinning globe is very distracting, not because it's spinning but because it changes abruptly with every cut.

[@BUY_YOUTUB_VIEWS.770]

Your channel never fails to impress.

[@deal2live]

Goal:Making the future look like the future!

[@andreabell5724]

Yep - Elon ❤️❤️❤️ Pay the man ❤️❤️❤️

[@budgetaudiophilelife-long5461]

🤗I AGREE WITH ASHOK,MILAN ABOUT ELON AND THE MISSION DRIVING THEM TO MAKE THE BEST FUTURE POSSIBLE 💚💚💚

[@johndowdall570]

Superb!! This is the most relevant, most important and most convincing information about Elon’s mission-driven approach and his incalculably-positive impact on humanity that I have ever heard assembled in one video. It is critically important for all of us who believe in Elon’s missions to share these “insider employee” revelations about Elon’s enormous impact in guiding them shoulder to shoulder to achieve amazing outcomes with everyone, and especially with those close to us who do not understand how Elon’s brilliance and dedication is leading humanity to a vastly better future. Kudos to Dr. Know-it-all for this beautifully-assembled & delivered tour de force of support!!!!

[@markl3893]

Interesting. However, how does Elon's claims of being truthful hold up against that CyberTruck towing a Porsche drag race? Motor Trend and others have shown that clip to be a lie. Can't totally trust him unless he comes clean on things like that where he has been less than truthful.

[@garthharrington9683]

I don’t really care about Motor Trend.

[@nguyep4]

A truck that pull a trailer and beat a Porsche under circumstances.

[@tonybrock5288]

Thank goodness for Elon's comments!! I'm a small shareholder but a lot of my life savings are in Tesla and if this all goes pear shaped I'm in deep trouble! Elon need his compensation and AI needs to be folded into Tesla. 🙏

[@user-tb1jy7rr9e]

I voted YES🎉🎉🎉

[@fredhearty1762]

All of these remarkable personal traits were first seen as I followed SpaceX as they battled entrenched incumbents and dusty technology... and using the laws of physics (not the laws of politics) started LANDING ROCKETS ON DRONE SHIPS!!! Tesla, FSD, Optimus, Starlink, Starship, Neuralink, xAI are not accidents -- they are Elon Musk's vision materialized.

[@restonthewind]

EVs were not a great innovation. GM produced the EV1 before Tesla existed. It didn't follow through with marketing and ramping production, but the technology was well established before Tesla. Chevrolet's Bolt EV appeared on the market before Tesla's Model 3, but early vehicles had battery fire problems, and GM again failed to follow through. Tesla deserves credit for going all in on EVs where legacy auto feared to tread, but the achievement was less technological than entrepreneurial. For the record, I drive a Bolt EV myself, and it has a large screen for the infotainment and climate control systems among other things. It doesn't use the screen for all controls, like the Model 3, and I'm glad that it doesn't. FSD hasn't delivered a robotaxi five years after Musk said it would. Say all you like about Waymo's lidar and geofencing and remote monitors. It has operating robotaxis, and Tesla does not. Will FSD robotaxis, when they appear (and I suppose they will), operate without a geofence or remote monitors/operators initially? I doubt it. We'll see. Optimus and other humanoid bots are still 99% hype. Starlink is nice if you live far from established mobile internet access, and Musk gets credit for extending the net to developing countries, but again, the technology was never in doubt. Landing rockets wasn't new technology either. SpaceX gets credit for turning them into a business. Starship is still in development and has a long way to go before it is reusable, lands on the moon or sends colonists to Mars. The last test was a big improvement over previous tests. Twitter/X was a debacle that cost Musk tens of billions of dollars. xAI hasn't accomplished much yet that I know of, but AI generally is progressing by leaps and bounds, and Musk can assemble a team that will participate in this progress. Neuralink doesn't have much of a record to judge either. You don't mention The Boring Company.

[@bobwallace9753]

@@restonthewind EVs first appeared in the 1800s. Tesla, thanks to Elon, made EVs that replace ICEVs. The rest of your comment is hooey as well.

[@restonthewind]

@@bobwallace9753 I never say that GM invented the EV with the EV1, but we have good reason to believe that EVs would have appeared without Tesla because GM had produced one in the late nineties, and tax incentives appeared in 2005 for hybrids already on the road. I'm not taking any credit away from Tesla or Musk. I'm a big fan of Tesla. If you'll specify the hooeyness, I'll reply; otherwise, your own comment is hooey.

[@bobwallace9753]

@@restonthewind "the technology was well established before Tesla" No, not true. GM's EV1 lacked range and the ability to operate in cold weather. It didn't have features like over the air software updates. GM didn't have good battery management systems as evidenced by their early production Bolt fires. GM still doesn't have technology brought including digital versions of each EV produced. When Tesla started selling the Roadster and then the Model S people started buying and driving them. GM leased their not-viable EV1 for a short period and then clawed them back.

[@restonthewind]

@@bobwallace9753 Available battery technology limited the EV1's range. It had lead-acid and then nickel metal hydride batteries, and it never had more than a hundred miles of range. Li-Ion batteries existed at the time but were too expensive for an EV. A decade made a big difference in the development of Li-Ion batteries, so Tesla could build an extremely expensive vehicle around them by 2008, but Tesla gets no credit for the technology. GM could have built an extremely expensive EV around Li-Ion batteries at the same time, but it waited almost another decade to build the much more affordable Bolt. But aside from the battery tech, EV technology was well established before the roadster. As you say, it was well established in the early 20th century when EVs were more popular than ICEVs. The Bolt EV has great battery management, and its range exceeds the EPA estimate in my experience. The fires had nothing to do with battery management. They resulted from flaws in batteries produced by LG Energy Solutions, a fact acknowledged by LG in its settlement of lawsuits. That Tesla does something with its EVs that GM doesn't is irrelevant to my assertion that EV technology was well established. "Tesla" is not synonymous with "EV". That GM sold the EV1 differently than Tesla sold the Roadster is also irrelevant to my point. Tesla gets credit for going all in despite the risks, so it was an entrepreneurial success but less of a technology innovator. You're right that GM sold the EV1 too cautiously and ultimately withdrew it from the market rather than risk investment in charging infrastructure. Those are business failures, not technological failures. The limited range and extremely limited charging infrastructure were definite impediments to market growth even though many people who had an EV1 wanted to keep it. A practical EV battery needs enough energy density at a sufficiently low price, and Li-Ion crossed that threshold. It would have crossed the threshold regardless of Tesla, and GM might have made the Bolt EV without Tesla. We'll never know, but the company certainly knew how to build an EV and had already done so. It didn't know how to sell one. Tesla also knew that it had to build a charging infrastructure too, and investors put a lot of money at risk to build this infrastructure without many vehicles on the road. Again, that's an entrepreneurial success rather than a technological innovation, but entrepreneurial success is as important.

[@BongoWongoOG]

All one hundred percent deserved. He's a one of a kind madman, maverick, inventor, coach, futurist.

[@tonybrock5288]

ps: KZbin seem to be shadow banning my "non w_ke (yet objective and polite)" comments. Just send me 1 like (in total) for me to know that at least 1 person out there saw my previous comment-somewhere below. I can't reply on my own comment which is refused by YT so I've had to start a new thread.

[@bobwallace9753]

I've seen two other people report the same problem. I'm not sure YT is banning you. There may just be a software problem

[@mrarfarf]

Please stop jump cutting all your breathing and spaces between senantces. There is no natual space to take in what you said and separate topics, it's like when a young kid tells a story that never ends.

[@grahambrown42]

We need as many billions as possible, in the hands of the best allocator of capital on earth. Elon is not an engineer 😂

[@bobwallace9753]

Leading engineers like Sandy Mundro do not agree with you.

[@grahambrown42]

@@bobwallace9753 Sandy Munro is a huge fan of Elon Musk.

[@brianp8384]

He is Chief Engineer at Spacex so that sounds like an engineer to me 🤔

[@Roguescienceguy]

Pathologically honest😂😂😂 How can a grown man be so utterly naïve.

[@bobwallace9753]

I don't know. What happened to you?

[@ctj8732]

Elon IS and always has been the PRIME MOVER. He is the person who assembles inspires, and directs the most talented engineers in the world. He alone, builds the machine, (team) that builds the machine (factories), that build the machines (products)

[@rmkep]

Your statement about Elon is "one of the most radically honest people in the world" who is telling the truth all the time is frankly absurd. You're conflating his disability (Aspergers) with honesty. Opinions are not truth and not recognizing that crucial difference is the source of many of our societal problems.

[@CharveL88]

Cry harder. By any comparison Elon is indeed one of the most radically honest people in the world. Please provide your example of all the people who are more honest. Or just one. I'll wait...

[@andrasbiro3007]

You are the one confusing concepts. "Telling the truth" doesn't mean telling the absolute truth, because that's impossible. It means being honest. Yet another thing is being right, which is being close to objective reality as much as we can tell. That also Elon, his crazy opinions very often became accepted as obvious truth after a while. Of course he's not always right, his track record is exceptional.

[@Dularr]

​@@CharveL88who are the founders of Tesla.

[@bobwallace9753]

@@Dularr It depends on how you define founders. Someone other than Elon came up with the name "Tesla". We don't know if that person had the idea of producing EVs for the general public first before Elon, but does it matter? The 'other two guys' had the same idea as Elon and JB. The other two had no design, no business plan, no financing, and didn't own the brand name. Elon and JB did the design. Elon provided the financing. Elon purchased the name Tesla from another individual. There was no company called Tesla before Elon and JB got involved. I'd say the founders were those involved when the business actually started.

[@Dularr]

@@bobwallace9753 it's an ethics question. Founders appear on the original legal documents. With Tesla of course there is the settlement, which seems ego driven. Just finished the Moviepass documentary. Of course you could also go with the two Steves of Apple. Where all Steve Jobs contributed was using his parents garage.

[@noleftturns]

So elon is going to "reward" long-time TSLA shareholders? How about us Tesla car owners? elon has killed the used car market for Teslas with his 2 years of firesales of new cars. My 2 year old Model Y is only worth 1/3 of the MSRP price - most of that loss is due to elon's insane price cuts. So anyone believing elon is going to "reward" you needs to stop drinking the purple Kool-Aid and realize elon only cares about elon.

[@mp6756]

Sorry to burst your bubble. Honda Toyota Nissan had lane assistant in the year 2000.

[@CharveL88]

That's...adorable...🤣

[@andrasbiro3007]

That's not even in the same ballpark. I clearly remember when Tesla released AP 1.0 everyone in the industry said it's crazy and irresponsible. And it wasn't the technology they doubted mostly, they were terrified of the legal and PR consequences of the inevitable accidents.

[@mp6756]

@andrasbiro3007 Damn I think I hit a nerve. Lmao, it's tough to be fact checked.

[@mp6756]

@@andrasbiro3007 The good Dr said Tesla had lane assistance first in 2010 before any other car company.

[@WarrenLacefield]

Lane keeping is a nice feature, something taken for granted now. But honestly, over the past 20, especially the last 10, years, I have noticed that for expressways, highways, city, and even suburban and country roads, there seems to have become far more attention and constant improvements in highway signage and roadway lane markings than there ever were last century. (I remember in the late '60's and early '70's, when amazing little reflective lane markers and side bumper strips first appeared here and there on expressways.) This new emphasis benefits all drivers, but I do believe that the advent of EVs, "smarter" driver assistance systems with features like lane-keeping and auto-distancing, and eventually systems like FSD, have been and are background forces helping to improve the highway environment.

[@john_hind]

Those of you who are Tesla shareholders definitely should vote for Elon's 'compensation'. Nobody deserves such a ridiculous sum for themselves, but Elon will spend the money much more productively for the good of humanity. Certainly more productively than the parasitical lawyers that sued Tesla, or for that matter the US Government if it is taken in taxes. But I hope he does not take any more of his companies public. Starlink was supposed to be the source of funding for colonizing Mars, and if a public company diverts profits in this way the lawyers would certainly come calling! If Wall Street votes this down, their true colors will be showing: prepared to reward mediocre execs like Calhoun of Boeing (not to mention his predecessor Muilenburg for goodness sakes) for monumental failure and destruction of value whilst reneging on a previous promise to reward a huge success that they never believed was possible.

[@bobwallace9753]

I'm pretty sure Elon doesn't care about the money. Elon just wants to maintain enough control over Tesla to keep greedy stockholders from killing Tesla's future like how greedy people took over Paypal and shoved Elon to the side.