Elon Musk

Attention is a commodity, which means that memes — a way of focusing and scaling attention — are a way to create value. No one understands this better than Elon Musk. Why it matters: People expert in propagating memes are finding that their skills can make them millions — or,…

Investor Paul Judge has partnered with BIP Capital to found a $300 million fund.  The fund's mission is to support diverse founders in the Southeast and Midwest. "The region is ready for a fund of this scale to invest in companies across stages from Seed to Series B," Judge told…

Posted by Jason Cartwright on February 9, 2021 Elon Musk’s SpaceX order page for Starlink went live today and we now have a date for availability in Australia. After entering an Australian address, the Starlink website shows a target date for coverage in mid to late 2021. Availability will be…

A visual representation of dogecoin and other cryptocurrencies. Yuriko Nakao | Getty Images Dogecoin is surging after billionaire Elon Musk and other celebrities appeared to back the cryptocurrency on Twitter. The meme-inspired token rallied 37% in 24 hours to a record high of $0.084945 at 10:20 a.m. ET on Monday,…

Elon and SpaceX Taking Twitter Suggestions to Fix Starship Landing Problem Brian Wang | February 5, 2021 | Elon Musk is taking some Twitter suggestions to light all three engines on the Starship landing. Two Starship prototypes (SN8 and SN9) have crashed on landing. By default, engine with least lever…

THE CHANGING FORTUNES OF THE WORLD’S RICHEST F ollowing strong earnings reports and bullish new takes from Wall Street analysts, tech stocks soared this week, padding the fortunes of world’s richest. The top ten gainers added a combined $74 billion to their net worths. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was the…

Senvest Management made $700 million on its Gamestop investment, The Wall Street Journal reported. The hedge fund sold its 5% stake after Elon Musk tweeted about the Reddit-fueled rally. Senvest's profit shows retail investors are far from the only winners of the market frenzy. Visit the Business section of Insider for…

The quality of Tesla’s cars suffers any time the company dramatically scales up production, CEO Elon Musk admitted in a February 2nd interview. Musk also said that Tesla was making cars so fast near the end of 2020 that it was messing up the paint jobs. Tesla has gotten a…

The test launch and landing of a SpaceX Starship prototype Tuesday ended in a crash for the second time since December.   The bullet-shaped 50-meter-tall SN-9 Starship rocket, a product of entrepreneur Elon Musk's private space company, lifted off as planned from the southern Texas launch site and traveled 10 kilometers…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down with engineer Sandy Munro for a surprisingly frank discussion about the company's quality control problems As we discussed only a few days ago, Tesla is a frustrating company to follow. Huge advances in technology are followed by PR stunt silliness like the whole Model…