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Elon Musk
“THEORY THREAD HOW ELON MUSK AND TESLA COULD BECOME THE WORLDS FIRST DAO (DECENTRALISED AUTONOMOUS…” (8 July 2021)
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Posts191
Retweets362
Likes5,697
First post25 January 2018
Latest post13 May 2026
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Musk functions less as an idol and more as a live example, proof that obsession applied without apology reshapes entire industries. GritCult cites him to extract operating principles, such as his five-step process, not to worship the man.

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The core lesson is relentless execution. In a 2023 post he quoted Musk's line that optimism or pessimism is irrelevant, because he will get it done [1], and in 2022 he shared Musk's own five-step process for building things: make requirements less dumb, delete steps, and add back only what proves necessary [2]. It's an anti-bureaucracy philosophy dressed up as a business framework.

He also follows the ventures one at a time. In late 2022 he threads on where Musk may take Twitter, expecting him to turn it into a super app where people join communities, read long form and enter DMs [3]. His actual opinions on Musk are held loosely and separately from the technology itself: he never cared that Musk bought into crypto and doesn't care what he says about it, because once the technology is understood the endorsement is irrelevant [4].

What he won't tolerate is reflexive hating. Shitting on people who believe in something is no longer cool; the future belongs to people who want the best for others and are happy for their success [5]. He is no fan-boy either: in 2022 he complained that since Musk bought Twitter it had become "so lame and boring and for nerds" [6]. Yet he takes Musk's side in politics: when Musk and Trump publicly clashed, he told Musk that Trump was taking it too far and that he should definitely start his own party [7].

Recurring themes

  • will over mood: optimism or pessimism is irrelevant
  • anti-bureaucracy as a repeatable method
  • the technology matters more than the endorser
  • refusing reflexive hate towards the ambitious
  • following the ventures one by one, Twitter included

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 34 retweets:

THEORY THREAD

HOW ELON MUSK AND TESLA COULD BECOME THE WORLDS FIRST DAO (DECENTRALISED AUTONOMOUS ORGANISATION)

TESLA => DAO
GRITCULT on X, 14 May 2021

Selected posts

The 120 most retweeted of 191 posts in the archive about Elon Musk. Select a column heading to sort.

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14 May 202134194THEORY THREAD

HOW ELON MUSK AND TESLA COULD BECOME THE WORLDS FIRST DAO (DECENTRALISED AUTONOMOUS ORGANISATION)

TESLA => DAO
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9 December 202218184neuralink has killed all the monkeys and pigs its been used on

human testing starts in 6 months...
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18 February 20221872Holy shit. They found clips of the monkey experiments for neuralink.

These look barbaric.
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13 May 202112108Never cared Elon bought crypto.

Don’t care what he says.

Once you understand the technology you’ll not give a shit either.
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15 October 202212103This is Elon Musks 5 step business process.

1. Make your requirements less dumb.
2. Delete parts or steps in the process. (To the point where you need to add things back in)
3. Simplify or optimise.
4. Accelerate cycle time.
5. Automate.
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2 December 202311106According to elon musk, being a founder is not for pussys. Here he explains the key to being a great one.Video stillView
8 July 20211152THEORY THREAD

HOW ELON MUSK AND TESLA COULD BECOME THE WORLDS FIRST DAO (DECENTRALISED AUTONOMOUS ORGANISATION)

TESLA => DAO
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26 August 202510235The biggest challenge on the Elon X app is avoiding the constant barrage of demoralisation slop.

So much negative noise gets shown on this app.

Posting good quality informative and optimistic stuff isn’t getting the attention it deserves. We need more beauty. More optimism.
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8 February 20219153DOGE PUMP BY ELON SO BTC WOULD STAY DOWN WHILE HE BOUGHT 1.5B USD OF BTCPost imageView
28 October 20228134😂😂Apparently elon musk face timed Donald Trump after firing the people who got him banned from twitter.View
8 February 2023837elon musk is a big believer of :

MOVE FAST,

BREAK STUFF.
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18 December 2023784Elon musk has always been risk on.Video stillView
3 September 2021754ELON MUSKS BIGGEST FEAR FROM THE CLUBHOUSE TALK HE GAVE WAS THAT HE BELIEVES CIVILISATION WILL COLLAPSE AND WE WILL LOSE EVERYTHINGView
30 November 2023746This is elon musks first business...

started in 1995, sold in 1999

took 4 years.

for the first year, couldnt make money or raise any funds. the 3 cofounders all lived in an office, for an entire year.

then it got funded and acquired.

most people quit way too soon.
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11 March 2022734THEORY THREAD

HOW ELON MUSK AND TESLA COULD BECOME THE WORLDS FIRST DAO (DECENTRALISED AUTONOMOUS ORGANISATION)

TESLA => DAO
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21 October 2018730@curaffairs increasing population
= increasing brain power
= more scientists

more ideas
more products
more competition
more innovation
more positive feedback loops
more elon musks
more steve jobs

more visions of the future being built

consumer wins = humanity wins

spiritual capitalism
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7 December 2023730Elon musk on what mindset entrepreneurs need.Video stillView
27 April 20256173Elon musk audiobooks

Doing some research ahead of some flights I have.
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21 December 20226128You hate teslas cos Elon musk reminds you of your father.

I hate Teslas cos they’re designed by nerds and they don’t make loud noises or pollute the environment
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10 April 2021660elon musks biggest fear from the clubhouse talk he gave was that he believes civilisation will collapse and we will lose everythingView
6 July 2022632Ever since Elon musk bought Twitter it’s become so lame and boring and for nerds. Elon made space travel lame. He made fast cars lame. Now Twitter. Fuck this lame ass app with its Reddit downvotes and stupid thread listicles about top ten productivity books everyone has read.View
8 July 2022621Pull out game elon muskView
20 December 20225296wtf why does elon musk look different everytimePost imageView
29 October 2022569so twitter has like 7500 employees

elon plans to cut 75% or 5600 jobs

avg salary being cut = 200,000 (avg being disportionate due to execs and equity)

5600 * 250,000 = 1,400,000,000

thats how much money theyd save roughly per year.
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6 November 2022552thread on some thoughts on where @elonmusk may take twitter.

elon is effectively going to try make twitter in a super app, thats an all in one app, where people can do a multitude of things, join communities, read long form, enter DMs, have subscription only communities.
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12 November 2023534Both Elon musk and jocko Willink have the same solution to the Middle East.

Extreme acts of kindness.

It is steeped in blood feuds and a tit for tat mentalities.

Break the cycle of mimetic conflict.
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3 June 2023523“Optimism or pessimism is irrelevant.

I WILL get it done.”

- elon musk
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24 July 2022516Bro I been telling everyone. Elon is one sick minded individual. But Sergey seems like a pussy ngl. He ain’t even hired a hitmanView
29 October 2022481You’re an idiot if you think elon musk is your saviour.View
23 December 2022446i didnt complain when elon musk killed monkeys he experimented on for neuralink

i didnt complain when elon musks reddit humour spelt S 3 X on his cars

i didnt complain when he banned posting instagram links and other platforms

BUT

I WILL COMPLAIN ABOUT THESE VIEWS
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11 November 2023434Elon musk doesnt need motivation doesnt need optimism, he just focuses on getting it done.Video stillView
8 February 2023433dear elon musk

do NOT leak my dms
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15 December 2018410"Creation is divine" (paraphrasing Caesar.)

One must create something of value(to someone), in order for it to be appreciated.

Is Elon musk then an "artist" ?

Is the act of generating value a creative endeavour ? Business as art.
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6 November 201843Default mode : AGGRESSIVE.

This is true stoic meditation. Singular focus mode.

Let go of that whole dude abides shit.

Get that energy.

“extreme success results from an extreme personality.

Be obsessed.” -Justine Musk.
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5 January 20253181Elon musk : we need to make twitter a more positive place

Elon musk tweets : the most non stop negative political tweets and rage bait posting that has ever existed.
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28 December 2024353When everyone loves Elon musk. I hate him.

When everyone hates Elon musk. I love him.
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28 November 2022343Rule number 1

Take risks.

Elon musks career advice.
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12 December 2023338Start ups are probably the hardest thing you will ever attempt.

Elon musk calls it “chewing glass and staring into the abyss.”
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9 July 2022327Muting the words “elon” and “musk”

Too much dick riding on this app. Goddamn
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15 January 2020310Akon has akon city?
I need grit city

Akon is the next Elon musk.
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15 April 202238elon musk could be a vampire

and silicon valley tech bros would be like:

"drink me daddy elon san, i wuv driving ur ugly tesla"
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24 December 20242169Every year; between christmas and new years, i like to read 1 book a day

this year i will try to read:

bronze age mindset - bap
the cultured thug - bowden
steve jobs - biography - already reading
trump: art of the deal
elon musk - biography
titan - rockefeller biography
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13 November 20242114Elon is probably the best gambler on earth.

Bets all in everytime. And wins.
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6 November 2024272Biggest winner of the election tonight is Elon musk.View
24 May 2021270@elonmusk Elon, didn’t YOU get hair plugs?Post imageView
4 April 2022257advice for twitter users:

dont trust elon musk
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5 June 2021252elon musk was cooler before he started using twitterView
3 July 2023240Once I am rich. I will impregnate 50 women and make them sign NDAs like elon musk is doing.View
30 December 2021232HOLY SHIT.

THIS ELON MUSK INTERVIEW IS CRAZYYY

HE IS CONVERTING TO ISLAM
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2 April 2023232HOLY FUCK.

We need elon musk to buy McDonald’s and open source the bigmac recipe
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7 August 2021223Never cared Elon bought crypto.

Don’t care what he says.

Once you understand the technology you’ll not give a shit either.
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8 August 2021223NEVER CARED ELON BOUGHT CRYPTO.

DON’T CARE WHAT HE SAYS.

ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND THE TECHNOLOGY YOU’LL NOT GIVE A SHIT EITHER.
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16 February 2023216So elon musk makes a shit joke

Then forces his tweets onto everyone

I saw like 3 in a row.

Unhinged behaviour
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25 April 2021213the mantle of the "civilised" will move from the decaying relics of the west to the new asia.

the death of western civilisation as a global power is not the death of human civilisation.

elon wants to go to mars, because he misses south africa
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8 August 2018210not necessarily
have increased abstraction ability
but rather
what they abstract into differs from norm

how creativity is measured, by novelty, not by power laws

some businessmen who wear suits, are more creative than a lot of lefty artists ive met

see: elon or theil
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15 December 2019210@HooaFury @MagisterMrK Get women to sniff your urine. If they say there's a musk they can't put their finger on or some smell they like. Then it's good high T urine. (Safe to drink too)View
3 August 201829saying you outcompete 1% of the entire population
is silly

im not competing with starving kids in africa and asia

im competing with those in my fields

im not competing with bezos or musk either

different scale systems
different games
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26 August 2023160Tik tok video of fat balding guy in a dimly lit basement tries to use credentialism to try to discredit Elon musk simply explaining something to someone.

What was the point big fella.
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18 December 2022154Elon banning external links was the right move.

3 reasons

- its competitive
- hes trying to create a super app a la wechat (which has functionalities of instagram, tik tok, paypal, amazon)
- hes trying to create more walled gardens, retain userbase
- content isnt affected
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14 May 2021153THE POINT OF THIS THREAD IS THAT ELON IS POSTURING TESLA AWAY FROM SOLELY BEING A CAR COMPANY, IT IS BECOMING AN INFRASTRUCTURE COMPANY, THAT INFRASTRUCTURE IS BASED ON ENERGY. HE IS CREATING A DECENTRALIED ENERGY GRID THATS THE LONG TERM PLAY AS PER @CHAMATHView
7 July 2023145Damn twitter is gonna sue threads the new clone by zuck

Not a good look from elon ngl

It means he is scared
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1 November 2022144halloween is haram anyways, not sure why u r shocked that elon musk is dressing up as a soldier of the devilView
2 June 2023134the crazy thing about why elon said this, is because one of his kids transitionedView
19 December 2021127Btc doesn’t look good. Maybe another pull back is in order.

Judging mainly from how much elon musks hairline has receded.
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14 December 2022127Elon musk is moving the twitter HQ to Miami.View
10 May 2023127Rumour is that elon musk has a milady altView
4 April 2026125POV youre elon musk watching another video model outperforming grokView
4 November 2022124JUST IN: Elon Musk has removed “boo boo beddy story time” from Twitter staff calendars.View
22 November 2024124bro got a neuralink and is launching a pump fun

bruh, you shouldve just downloaded an ai trading plugin
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24 May 2021123IF YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING AND THINK THE FUTURE IS GOING TO BE BETTER, IT IS A BRIGHT DAY. OTHERWISE, IT’S NOT. – ELON MUSKView
14 August 20231216/

he wrote a few sci fi novels, one was about the technicalities of human inhabited mars, it would be a technocracy, ruled over by a rocket man named elon… it was written in 1949, but published in 2006
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21 May 2022120Elon musk. Worlds richest man.

Could’ve bought any social media. Or even build his own.

But didn’t.

Lesson In there.

Tryna build a social media to compete with twitter is fucking dumb. Save ur time.
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1 December 2023119New Elon meme droppedView
31 August 2022118Yet significant advancements in AR/VR are required to enable deep immersion. And XR devices like contact lenses and brain-computer interfaces (e.g. Neuralink) are at least a decade away.View
1 March 2023116If you are reading this you are NOT elon muskView
6 July 2023113Zuckerberg didn’t copy what elon bought.

Elon bought the user base. Not the app.
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6 April 2023112Wow omg !!!! Elon musk just sent me this video talking about @sukuriprotocolVideo stillView
3 September 202319When spacex wanted to build resusable rockets

Did investors ask what’s the TAM?

How many competitors are using reusable rockets currently?
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8 July 2021188
ALL CORPORATIONS WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME DAOs, DECENTRALISED AUTONOMOUS ORGANISATIONS AND THIS IS WHERE TESLA AND ELON MUSK COMES IN

DAOs AND CORPORATIONS.

DAOS ARE DESIGNED WITH COMPLEXITY IN MIND, CORPORATIONS HAVE INFORMATION PROBLEMS AS CYBERNETIC ORGANISMS.
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5 April 202218Great work elon…. Wait a minuteView
6 January 202518@jdvelex He can keep building like Elon didView
6 November 2022160-1 thinking

to take human civilisation to the next level,

public forum that is twitter needs to be expanded and eventually self sustaining.

something much further down the line that elon could do is decentralise twitter or atleast federalise it
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2 November 202516@crawfax @bennpeifert It would matter tremendously. Look at both Elon and Sam himself. Both had better pr before social media.

There are things Sam Altman has done that aren’t even public and he still has bad pr. even look at Peter thiel.
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11 March 202215@chamath 8
ALL CORPORATIONS WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME DAOs, DECENTRALISED AUTONOMOUS ORGANISATIONS AND THIS IS WHERE TESLA AND ELON MUSK COMES IN

DAOs AND CORPORATIONS.

DAOS ARE DESIGNED WITH COMPLEXITY IN MIND, CORPORATIONS HAVE INFORMATION PROBLEMS AS CYBERNETIC ORGANISMS.
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14 June 201813Clooney (56)- Amal, 18 years difference
Donald Trump (70) - Melania (47)

"men may acquire greater power/property, financial et al. older men with the most appeal to younger women would be those with financial prosperity"

see elon musk / grimes
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13 May 202613thank you elonView
21 October 201812You have missed my point. My point is relativity.

Of tribes.

Can do the same with Elon musk or Steve Jobs.

Ive been to the Marxist house in London and they hang up pictures of Marx and Lenin on the wall.

Hero worship is dangerous.
See mimesis.
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4 May 201811bro, elon musk shot a car into space

it can get a whole lot bigger you just not being imaginative

paul walker could come back from the multiverse
or they could time travel using quantum bitcoins
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9 February 201810elon musk slander is russian psy ops,View
31 May 20250127why does elon musk have a black eye right around the time he is stepping down from DOGE after criticising the president that the cuts arent codified.View
17 April 20260116@stevehou Twitter is owned by Elon.
TBPN is owned by Sam Altman.

Elon and Sam do not like each other.
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21 December 2025073@elonmusk Elon be like

Remigration for thee

More h1b workers for mee
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6 July 2023072Elon musk turned down Zuckerbergs challenge to fight.

I might have to leave twitter 😭

Not a good sign

Zuckerberg has a proven track record of drinking the milkshakes of competitor social media’s.

Mainly through Instagram features.
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10 January 2021046Bet you didn’t know Elon musk had these many brothers.View
18 November 2022045@0x49fa98 This is the single worst decision made by elonView
29 October 2024043No.
Diet coke is right wing.
Diet coke is faustian overcoming of nature.
Diet coke is pure taste and stimulant induced euphoria with no negative side effects.
Diet coke is drank by titans of industry elon, trump, buffet.
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26 December 2024041@growing_daniel @yacineMTB He can’t get fired.
Because this is what Elon likes to crusade for. Free speech.
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7 November 2022038Wasn’t elon musk a guest of Jeffrey Epstein.View
11 January 2024038Elon musk doesnt give a fuck about positive feedback. Says he only seeks out negative feedback.View
4 April 2022037Elon isn’t gonna make twitter based lmfao. He hardly gives a shitView
14 May 2021032SOME BACKGROUND TO THIS,

A WHILE BACK WITH YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT TESLA RECENTLY BOUGHT BILLIONS WORTH OF BITCOIN, THEY ANNOUNCED THIS, THEN THEY SOLD 10% TO PROVE LIQUIDITY.

A WHILE LATER, AFTER MANIPULATING THE PRICE DOGE

ELON ANNOUNCES BITCOIN HAS ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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14 May 2021032ALL CORPORATIONS WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME DAOs, DECENTRALISED AUTONOMOUS ORGANISATIONS AND THIS IS WHERE TESLA AND ELON MUSK COMES IN

DAOs AND CORPORATIONS.

DAOS ARE DESIGNED WITH COMPLEXITY IN MIND, CORPORATIONS HAVE INFORMATION PROBLEMS AS CYBERNETIC ORGANISMS.
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14 May 2021027THE MARGINAL COST OF GOLD MINING IS CLOSE TO THE PRICE OF GOLD.

FOLLOWING THIS LOGIC IT IS LOGICAL TO ASSUME THAT THE USE CASE IS THE HIGH AMOUNT OF COST INVOLVED IN MAINTAINING THE NETWORK.

BUT BACK TO ELON...
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29 December 2021025Is elon musk the single most important person in history?

Discuss
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24 October 2021020NEVER CARED ELON BOUGHT CRYPTO.

DON€™T CARE WHAT HE SAYS.

ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND THE TECHNOLOGY YOU€™LL NOT GIVE A SHIT EITHER.
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21 June 2022019Damn. All those elon musk tweets about trans people were really subtweets against his own child.View
8 October 2023018Elon musk cameo.View
19 March 2021017Ye is the most illusive.

Can get the personal emails of the other two easy.

A twitter mutual on here has the personal phone number of Elon.

Starting a city just requires the right incentives.
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3 May 2021015Study this.

Imagine if Elon Musk and Jeff bezos and mark zuckerberg were the same person.

The man who arguably shaped the modern America.

From the civil war to the establishment of the federal reserve.
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25 April 2022015Elon needs to bring back vine and stories to twitter.View
26 April 2022014twitter is going to become the feudal kingdom of elon muskView
1 July 2023013Wasn’t elon musk a guest of Jeffrey Epstein.View
7 July 2023013I’ll take the bet.

Elon doesn’t run twitter.

He doesn’t run 5 companies, he oversees. Huge difference.

Zuck failed metaverse. Failed physicals. Instagram has gotten worse. Only Indians n boomers use Facebook. His real successes have been copying and purchasing
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6 November 2022012the main goal of product as a whole right now is to become event oriented.

You go there to do a certain task or witness an event or to be used while doing something.

twitter is that for elon musk

Elon says: "Some people use their hair to express themselves. I use Twitter"
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4 September 2023012Wanted to see how much Elon bucks I can make if I tried

It’s a pretty nice amount. Takes care of some bills

But it is a constant race to the bottom

It’s a distraction too

I’m into company building. 100% focus is on my start up

Content is a side hustle how I see it.
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29 August 2024012elon musk has always been anti anon

payment + mobile phone data

and that kyc you have to submit to get verified...
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10 May 2023011Imagine if elon tweeted this ugly shit insteadView
13 November 2024011elon first day as head of DOGEView
16 June 2022010Okay elon is gonna turn twitter into WeChat like I always thought it could beView
6 November 2022010twitter will not become a super app, but it will resemble the infrastructure backbone of the internet.

elon already has experience with building payment infrastructure via paypal

bringing this and integrating it into twitter will be a quick win
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History

GritCult first posted about Elon Musk on 25 January 2018, and most recently on 13 May 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 191 times, most often in 2022 (50 posts).

See also

References

  1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (3 June 2023). Optimism or pessimism is irrelevant. I WILL get it done. X.
  2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (15 October 2022). This is Elon Musks 5 step business process. 1. Make your requirements less dumb. 2. Delete parts or steps in the process... 3. Simplify or optimise. X.
  3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (6 November 2022). thread on some thoughts on where @elonmusk may take twitter... elon is effectively going to try make twitter in a super app. X.
  4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (13 May 2021). Never cared Elon bought crypto. Don't care what he says. Once you understand the technology you'll not give a shit either. X.
  5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (2 May 2025). Shitting on stuff and being a hater is no longer cool. The future belongs to people who believe in something. Who want the best for you and that are happy for your success. X.
  6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (6 July 2022). Ever since Elon musk bought Twitter it's become so lame and boring and for nerds. X.
  7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (5 June 2025). yo wtf @elonmusk trump is taking it too far with this post... @elonmusk you should definitely start your own party. X.