Elon, Inc.

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On this week's  Everybody's Business,  Stacey Vanek Smith and Max Chafkin discuss a possible return of DOGE-like cuts due to the shutdown, the wild ride of crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and a very surprising economic indicator. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the latest episode of  Everybody's Business ,  Elon, Inc.' s own David Papadopoulos visits Max Chafkin and Stacey Vanek Smith to explain the roller coaster ride that is Argentina's economy. Also on the menu: the UN, MrBeast, David Ellison and a new, depressing office trend. Subscribe to Everybody’s  Business   wherever you get your podcasts! See omnystudio.com/listener...

As promised in Tuesday's episode, Everybody's Business will carry the Elon, Inc. banner moving forward. In the latest episode, Max Chafkin and Stacey Vanek Smith discuss a plane crash carrying illicit cargo with a SpaceX twist, fed independence and salary caps in sports. Subscribe to Everybody’s  Business   wherever you get your podcasts! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...

This is the final episode of  Elon, Inc. , and it comes at a fitting point in the story of the highly controversial entrepreneur Elon Musk. The podcast was launched around the time the South Africa native bought and rebranded Twitter, transforming a mainstream social media platform into something else entirely. Now, the podcast has found a natural conclusion with his full return to his compan...

What do you give a man who has everything? $1 trillion of course. The news broke Friday that despite a seemingly waning interest in making cars and his  alienation  of many of Tesla’s customers, Elon Musk was offered a record-busting payday by the carmaker’s board. The catch? The South Africa native and richest person in the world (even before the $1...

Labor Day is generally a slow news day in the US. But this year it happened to be the day Elon Musk chose to unveil Tesla’s “ Master Plan, Part 4 .” Since its first installment in 2006, the electric vehicle-maker’s future roadmap has been seen by some as a big part of the company’s identity. The latest version comes at a critical moment for the company. With Tesla sal...

On this week’s edition of Elon, Inc. , Bloomberg editor Sarah Frier sits down with Elon Musk reporter Dana Hull to discuss the latest news from the world’s richest man. They start with what was arguably the most dramatic development: X and Xai’s lawsuit alleging that Apple has unfairly favored artificial intelligence giant OpenAI in its app store. Hull says she isn&rsqu...

In this week’s episode of Elon, Inc.,  we conclude a series of “jealousy interviews” where we talk to authors of Elon Musk stories we wish we had written. This time, Bloomberg News Musk reporter Dana Hull chats with Kirsten Grind of the New York Times  about her May exposé  on the alleged campaign trail drug habits of a certain entrepreneur-turned-aspiring p...

Elon Musk left Washington and his “Department of Government Efficiency” initiative with a highly controversial and, many would say, disappointing track record. For followers of President Donald Trump and the idea of slashing what he’s claimed is out-of-control government spending, Musk’s self-reported $199 billion in savings (which cannot be independently confirmed) is...

It was an expensive week for Tesla. On Friday, a jury in Miami found the electric car company 33% to blame for a deadly 2019 crash involving its full self-driving feature, ordering it to pay a total of  $242.5 million in damages. A few days later, the company’s board said it would dole out a  $30 billion  stock payoff to co-founder Elon Musk in order to keep him focused on the...

The growing blowback from years of spreading conspiracy theories , embracing far-right political causes and attempting to dismantle the US government  (with calamitous results for millions ) might have finally taken its toll on Elon Musk and his companies. Or perhaps not. Last week’s Tesla earnings call ended on a somber note, with world’s richest man declaring his struggling...

On this week’s episode of  Elon, Inc.,  host Max Chafkin and  Bloomberg News  reporter Ed Ludlow discuss their cover story for the latest issue of  Bloomberg Businessweek .  Their reporting  details the ways in which Elon Musk’s companies—specifically Tesla, SpaceX and xAI—are struggling in the wake of his feud with President Donald Trump....

On this week’s episode of Elon, Inc. , host Max Chafkin and Bloomberg News reporters Dana Hull and Kurt Wagner chat about Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI. The endeavor just debuted its new Grok 4 model on the heels of an antisemitism controversy , but Musk sees a brighter future for his creation, claiming it might discover “new physics” one day. Before that...

The day after Grok started spewing antisemitic propaganda, X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced that she's leaving the company. The timing sticks out, although sources says she's been planning an exit for a while. In this emergency episode, Max Chafkin summons Bloomberg's big tech team leader Sarah Frier to chat about Linda's legacy, her possible future plans and the timing of her departure. See omnyst...

On this week’s episode, David Papadopoulos invites Bloomberg political reporter Nancy Cook and Bloomberg Businessweek ’s Max Chafkin to the studio to discuss Elon Musk’s latest idea—the creation of the “ America Party .” Third parties have famously been losing propositions in American politics, and Cook questions if the distractible multibillionaire even ha...

The predictable second round of Elon Musk’s feud with Donald Trump began over the weekend as the Tesla CEO took aim at the GOP’s massive tax-and-spend bill. Specifically irking Musk (along with efforts to gut incentives to buy his cars) is the amount of money the bill would add to the $37 trillion national debt ($3.3 trillion over a decade, according to a  new estimate from the no...

Over the weekend, while the world was transfixed by war in the Middle East, the Tesla Robotaxi quietly appeared on the streets of Austin, Texas. It didn’t stay quiet for long, though. As a handful of Tesla influencers filmed themselves driven through the streets of the red state’s famously blue capital, their smartphone videos caught plenty of traffic violations. In this week&rsqu...

On this week’s episode of Elon, Inc. , host David and Max chat about the latest Musk-Trump drama. A detente had just emerged when we last recorded, and now it feels like it’s just a matter of time before Musk (and little X) are back in the Oval Office sparring with reporters (and playing on the floor). Will the apologies help Musk secure eased restrictions for self-driving cars and acc...

On this week’s episode, host David gathers Max Chafkin and Dana Hull to go through the latest developments in the aftermath of the Elon Musk-Donald Trump explosion last week. After two (!) emergency episodes in as many days last week, things seem to have calmed down between the South Africa native and the US president—but there are still signs of friction. Will Trump ever be able to fo...

It didn't take long after our emergency episode yesterday for the beef between Elon and Trump to escalate. The X and Truth Social posts went flying, everyone from Steve Bannon to Kanye West weighed in, and Trump even threatened to sell the Tesla he bought a few months ago. David Papadopoulos and Max Chafkin couldn't wait to dive into the latest news of the feud, and tell us what we should be watch...

Minutes after Trump accused Elon of having "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and Elon claimed "Without me, Trump would have lost the election," we are joined by Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Josh Green for a special emergency podcast to talk about whether this breakup will last. Could Elon and Trump reconcile over a less big, less beautiful tax bill? Could Elon flip parties again and join the Democra...

Elon Musk’s highly publicized and arguably  brand destructive  tenure as President Donald Trump’s would-be hatchet man  has supposedly drawn to a close. His foray into politics has resulted in tens of thousands of federal workers losing their jobs, the attempted shuttering or gutting of federal agencies ( with grim consequences for the world’s poorest ) a...

Here's an excerpt from Max Chafkin's new podcast Everybody's Business, co-hosted with Stacey Vanek Smith. From now on, if you want to hear the whole episode and all past and future episodes, head to your podcast app of choice and search for Everybody's Business . A handy collection of links can be found here . For now, enjoy this conversation with stacy-marie ishmael about President Trump's novel...

When Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain interviewed Elon Musk last week, it caused quite a stir. This was especially the case when Musk proclaimed, “in terms of political spending, I’m gonna do a lot less in the future.” (Most news reports missed a sly qualification that made this seem more like an ultimatum . But more on that below). Coverage of the supposed end of Musk&r...