Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
was the first act of renovating Twitter in his image. Bringing in family members, trusted confidants, dozens of Tesla engineers, and executives from The Boring Company and SpaceX, Musk began mass firings and cutting costs to the bone. He boasted about sleeping at Twitter’s office. In Trumpian fashion, Musk stiffed vendors, deciding
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. Case filings indicated that a number of law firms were subpoenaed. So were Andrew and James Musk, cousins of Elon. The Musk employees came from SpaceX, Musk’s family office, The Boring Company, and Tesla. In the case of SpaceX, Musk brought over 11 employees, mostly senior executives, including top people from finance, human
Elon Musk: A Mission to Save the World
by Anna Crowley Redding · 1 Jul 2019 · 190pp · 46,977 words
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, “The Boring Company Information Session.” 162. Elon Musk, interview by Chris Anderson. 163. Elon Musk, “The Boring Company Information Session.” 164. Vance, p. 43. 165. Strauss, “Elon Musk.” 166. Paine, Do You Trust This Computer? 167
Elon Musk
by Walter Isaacson · 11 Sep 2023 · 562pp · 201,502 words
they could sell: a perfume with the scent of singed human hair. When he landed, he called Steve Davis, his CEO at The Boring Company, who had previously executed Musk’s idea to sell a toy flamethrower. “Burnt hair perfume!” Musk said, imagining the marketing pitch. “Do you like that smell you experienced
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words
several decades while keeping people reliant on personal vehicles. And that same trickery was at the center of what came to be called the Boring Company. By 2017, Musk was building a test tunnel on SpaceX’s property in Hawthorne, an area in southwest Los Angeles, and he was already pumping up the
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traffic in Los Angeles had gone from “seventh level of hell to like eighth level of hell” since he had moved there.7 Musk’s motivation for the Boring Company was to alleviate this traffic, but he proposed an incredibly inefficient—even unworkable—means of achieving it, and that became more apparent the
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finally got the chance to build the system, it was even further simplified, showing just how much of a gimmick it really was. Musk tried to get multiple Boring Company projects off the ground. In 2018, the company was going to build a Loop system from downtown Chicago to O’Hare Airport that
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. It was therefore not surprising to read that he was dismissive of induced demand and wanted to preserve suburban community planning. When pitching the Boring Company’s transport system, Musk made a particularly illuminating argument about how it would fit within existing neighborhoods. In 2018, he explained that: you can weave the Boring
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, it is impossible to conclude anything other than its plan was never to solve congestion for everyone, but for one person in particular: Elon Musk. The Boring Company was yet another case of elite projection, where Musk framed a tunnel that would be personally convenient as something that could work for everyone. In
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
by Ozan Varol · 13 Apr 2020 · 389pp · 112,319 words
time-traveling adventure. 79. Laura Bliss, “Dig Your Crazy Tunnel, Elon Musk!,” City Lab, December 19, 2018, www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/12/elon-musk-tunnel-ride-tesla-boring-company-los-angeles/578536. 80. Boring Company, “Chicago,” www.boringcompany.com/chicago. 81. Boring Company, “Las Vegas,” www.boringcompany.com/lvcc. 82. Antoine de
The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here
by Nicole Kobie · 3 Jul 2024 · 348pp · 119,358 words
as a traffic-curing marvel. Still, those driving conditions were his aim – and that vision may sound familiar to followers of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, with his Boring Company wanting to drill tunnels beneath cities for congestion-free in-city driving. Like Musk, Bel Geddes had another idea, one which dovetailed neatly with
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 28 Jan 2020 · 501pp · 114,888 words
. By 2025—going on vacation might have a totally different meaning. Going to work most definitely will. And Musk was just getting started. The Boring Company Elon Musk’s main residence in Los Angeles is located in Bel Air, a seventeen-mile trek from SpaceX’s Hawthorne-based offices. On the best of
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to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.” In the spring of 2018, with $113 million of Musk’s own money, the Boring Company began boring. They started construction on both ends of the line in DC and New York, while also starting on a 10.3
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet―and Why We're Following
by Gabrielle Bluestone · 5 Apr 2021 · 329pp · 100,162 words
://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-hackers-joe-biden-elon-musk-received-120000-bitcoin-payments-2020-7. 61. Bill Ruthhart and John Byrne, "Chicago Taps Elon Musk’s Boring Company to Build High-Speed Transit Tunnels That Would Tie Loop with O’Hare," Chicago Tribune, June 14, 2018, https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-met
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-ohare-high-speed-transit-elon-musk-boring-company-20180613-story.html. 62. Jack Holmes, "A Trump Surrogate Drops the Mic: ‘There’s No Such Thing as Facts,’" Esquire, December 1, 2016, https://www
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac · 17 Sep 2024
fund founded by former Goldman bankers. The firm—which counted Birchall’s son as an analyst—had already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Musk’s Boring Company and Neuralink, and agreed to contribute $700 million to the Twitter deal. Sequoia Capital, the famed backer of Apple, agreed to $800 million. Andreessen
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. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Balajadia also made some public appearances on behalf of the Boring Company: Marshall, Aarian. “Elon Musk Now Wants to Dig Another Tunnel under LA.” Wired, January 23, 2018. wired.com/story/elon-musk-boring-company-culver-city. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Chapter 36: Elections connections to Big Oil
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul
by Kurt Wagner · 20 Feb 2024 · 332pp · 127,754 words
was that Musk, despite his oodles of money and fame and success, had the sense of humor of a twelve-year-old boy. At The Boring Company, Musk once created and sold a flamethrower to the general public after a joke he saw in one of his favorite movies, Spaceballs. A joke from
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cousins James and Andrew, also showed up to meet with Twitter engineers and review the company’s code. Steve Davis, the president of Musk’s tunnel company, The Boring Company, would draw eyerolls from Twitter employees when news eventually circulated that he wasn’t just helping out but actually living in the office
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was admonished for putting his concerns in writing over email, according to a lawsuit Killian and colleagues later filed against Twitter. Steve Davis, The Boring Company president whom Musk had tapped to slash costs, allegedly told Killian that Twitter didn’t need to follow those rules. Musk and his team also demanded that
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Maguire, “Partnering with the Boring Company: The Promise of Subspace,” Sequoia Capital, April 2, 2022, https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-the-boring-company-the-promise-of-subspace/. Musk had rounded up a total of $7.1 billion in pledges: Twitter, Inc., Elon Musk Form 13D (filed May 5, 2022), 2–3
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by Ashlee Vance · 18 May 2015 · 370pp · 129,096 words
How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road
by Gareth Dennis · 12 Nov 2024 · 261pp · 76,645 words
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
by Steven Higashide · 9 Oct 2019 · 195pp · 52,701 words