Ryan Mac

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Americast · Elon Musk the trillionaire... does the global economy need him to succeed? · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

I think he has been... If you look at some of the things he has failed at at his companies...

For example, SpaceX with Mars.

Mars has been the North Star of SpaceX for basically since its founding.

The idea of getting humans to Mars and making life multi-planetary.

You know, he has set a timeline for Mars that he has simply not achieved.

If you look back at his statements, he has said, you know, we get people to Mars by around this time.

But, you know, while he has technically failed on that level, he has been able to replace the goal of Mars with other things and find other things for people to fixate on and be like, you know, I've achieved these things in the meantime.

And if you look at the current goals of the company, you know, Mars has kind of been placed on the sideline.

You know, now they're talking about orbital data centers and factories on the moon and colonies on the moon.

But in some ways, Musk's greatest trait is as a salesman.

He's able to sell people on kind of the latest shiny goal and maybe get them to forget that he said these things or predicted these things that didn't come to fruition.

Yeah, this is quite controversial, I guess.

But the NASDAQ has an index called the NASDAQ 100, which people use to trade if you want to have an index fund.

A lot of people with retirement funds invest in index funds so that they trace...

the developments of the US economy, for example.

And the NASDAQ 100 has certain rules that in order to be listed, you have to abide by.

One of them, for example, is you have to be a publicly listed company for a certain amount of time.

You just can't immediately hit it after an IPO.

Or there's something called a cooling off period, allowing the stock to essentially find an equilibrium on the market so that there's not wild fluctuations in the price.

Well, the NASDAQ 100 will relax a lot of these rules so that SpaceX could get into the index, specifically rules around timing.

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