Elon, Inc.

Introducing: The Mishal Husain Show

18 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Make sense of the world with one essential conversation, every week. Mishal Husain, one of Britain's best interviewers, brings her signature blend of ...

Everybody's Business: Will the Shutdown Lead to DOGE 2.0?

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Everybody's Business: Elon Inc's Host Explains the Mess in Argentina

27 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest episode of Everybody's Business, Elon, Inc.'s own David Papadopoulos visits Max Chafkin and Stacey Vanek Smith to explain the ...

Everybody's Business: SpaceX in Unexpected Places

20 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Elon, Inc. Over and Out

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 pod...

Will Elon Get Paid $1,000,000,000,000?

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do you give a man who has everything? $1 trillion of course. The news broke Friday that despite a seemingly waning interest in mak...

Tesla's Master Plan, Part Quattro

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

Forget the Cagefight: Are Elon and Mark Friends Again?

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

In Elon's Silicon Valley, Drug Use Was Par for the Course

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode of Elon, Inc., we conclude a series of “jealousy interviews” where we talk to authors of Elon Musk stori...

So What Did Musk Accomplish With ‘DOGE’?

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk left Washington and his “Department of Government Efficiency” initiative with a highly controversial and, many would say, disapp...

Elon Gets $30 Billion to Stick Around, Boring is Largely Stuck

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Elon Opens a Restaurant, Strikes a Chip Deal, Dreams of Robots

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The growing blowback from years of spreading conspiracy theories, embracing far-right political causes and attempting to dismantle the US government&n...

Musk’s Trump Feud Is Still Hurting His Empire

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode of Elon, Inc., host Max Chafkin and Bloomberg News reporter Ed Ludlow discuss their cover story for t...

Forget DOGE. Musk Is Suddenly All In on AI

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 artif...

Emergency Episode: Linda Yaccarino Leaves X

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The day after Grok started spewing antisemitic propaganda, X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced that she's leaving the company. The timing sticks out, alth...

Can Elon’s ‘America Party’ Dream Come True?

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s episode, David Papadopoulos invites Bloomberg political reporter Nancy Cook and Bloomberg Businessweek’s Max Chafkin to the...

Trump Suggests an Elon Deportation, Tesla Shakes up Management

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

An Underwhelming Robotaxi Rollout, X Strong-arms Advertisers

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 di...

Can ‘MAMUWT’ Be to Musk What ‘TACO’ Is to Trump?

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 recorde...

After the Meltdown, Elon Looks to Robotaxis

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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-Don...

Another Emergency: What IS Going on With Elon and Trump?

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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, e...

Emergency Episode: Elon and Trump Are Breaking Up in Public. What Happens Next?

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Minutes after Trump accused Elon of having "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and Elon claimed "Without me, Trump would have lost the election," we are join...

Is Elon’s Political Capital Spent?

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk’s highly publicized and arguably brand destructive tenure as President Donald Trump’s would-be hatchet man has su...

In Case you Missed It - Everybody's Business: Trump + Crypto

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 e...

Is Elon Really Quitting Politics... for Banking?

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain interviewed Elon Musk last week, it caused quite a stir. This was especially the case when Musk proclaimed, ...

In Case you Missed It - Everybody’s Business: Wrestling With Taxes, Robots and Gold

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Check out the feed of our sister podcast Everybody's Business in any podcast app of your choice. After several week's of cross publishing, in the futu...

Elon on the Spot, Grok Has a Week

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk was interviewed Tuesday by Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha. The wide-ranging conversation spanned the mu...

Elon Musk Live from the Qatar Economic Forum

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk was just interviewed by Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain at the Qatar Economic Forum. It was a sometimes tense exchange that covered everythi...

In Case you Missed It - Everybody’s Business: Trump Ruins Christmas

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Where’s the inflation? With this week’s Consumer Price Index coming in softer than predicted (inflation at its lowest level since 2021, ac...

An Insider’s View on What Ails Tesla

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode of Elon, Inc., host Max Chafkin and Bloomberg Elon Musk reporter Dana Hull sit down with Matthew LaBrot, a former Tesla s...

Everybody's Business: Robot Besties, Movie Tariffs and Tales from the Crypto

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Everybody’s Business, Max and Stacey explore the future of friendship. With OpenAI and Meta ramping up efforts to give chatbot...

Elon Just Got His Very Own Town

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s no secret that Elon Musk isn’t a big fan of the US Securities and Exchange Commission. He and his companies have been ...

Everybody’s Business: Trump's Days 100-104 and The Art of Horse Breeding

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the fifth (top secret) episode of Bloomberg Businessweek’s new podcast Everybody’s Business, hosts Max Chafkin and Stacey Vanek Smith l...

Elon's First 100 Days in Office, the Future of the Robotaxi

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today marks the 100th day of the second Trump administration. It also means it’s been about 100 days since Elon Musk transformed ...

Everybody’s Business: DOGE, Trump and the Rise of the Manosphere

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the fourth (top secret) episode of Bloomberg Businessweek’s new podcast Everybody’s Business, hosts Max Chafkin and Stacey Vanek Smith ...

At Least Neuralink Is Doing Well

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last year was a big year for Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant company, seeing as it made headlines by successfully inserting a chip into a h...

Everybody's Business: Trade War Winners and Harvard’s $2 Billion “No”

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the third (semi-secret) episode of Bloomberg Businessweek's new podcast Everybody’s Business, Businessweek Editor Brad Stone fills in for Max...

Has DOGE Gone Underground?

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s tax day in the US, and the Internal Revenue Service is reeling from more potential firings courtesy of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their &l...

Everybody's Business: Tariffs Interrupted--Bonds, iPhones and an Ancient Howl

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the second episode of Bloomberg BusinessWeek’s new podcast Everybody’s Business, Max Chafkin and Stacey Vanek Smith talk mark...

Trumpland vs. Elon vs. Tariffs

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Donald Trump unveiled that big list of countries and their respective tariffs, the markets reacted immediately by nosediving. In the days since, ...

Everybody's Business: Tariffs, TikTok, Torpedos

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first episode of Bloomberg Businessweek’s new podcast Everybody’s Business, Max Chafkin and Stacey Vanek Smith try t...

Elon Consolidates His Empire

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Friday night, news broke that Elon Musk was merging his company X with his company xAI—a move that this very podcast, Elon, Inc., had pr...

What Musk’s Millions Mean for Wisconsin—and Congress

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk’s leverage over the Republican Party, made plain by his threats to finance primary challenges against anyone who fails to fully suppor...

Bonus: The View from Musk Watch

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk has been making news at a furious pace as he seeks to dismantle wide swaths of the federal government at Donald Trump’s behest. His be...

Elon’s Brand Dilemma 

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In some ways, Elon Musk had a quiet week—if making news on a daily instead of hourly basis counts as quiet. This week on Elon, Inc., the pa...

The Week Everything Went Wrong

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

He may be the world’s richest person and a personal pal of Donald Trump, but even Elon Musk can have a bad week. Not only has Tesla stock c...

How Tesla Became Elon’s Collateral Damage

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While Elon Musk is busy in Washington, his publicly traded company has been suffering. Having skyrocketed in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump&r...

DOGE for Dummies

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Personnel Management (OPM) sent out an email seemingly to all federal employees instructing them to send back a list of five things they accomplished ...

DOGE Powers On, A Cybertruck Order Disappears, xAI Looks for Money

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk and his assistants have reportedly spent the past week dropping in on federal agencies ranging from the US Department of Education to the De...

Getting Inside Government Is Good Business

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Federal judges continue to declare most of Elon Musk’s activities in Washington to be probably illegal as the question of whether his 78-ye...

Inside Elon’s Attack on the US Government

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk has been in Washington a few weeks now, and he and his team of Silicon Valley adjutants show no signs of stopping their efforts to (illegall...

Emergency Episode: Nothing Stands Between Elon and Treasury's Payments System

02 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a week of unprecedented action (and chaos) from both Elon Musk and the Trump administration, breaking news this weekend brought the Elon,...

Tesla Regret Doesn't Move Markets, Banks Try to Offload Twitter Debt

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s that time of year: quarterly earnings for Tesla are tomorrow. Regular Elon, Inc. listeners will know that means a new bingo card is he...

Evolving Money: Building Bridges with Bitcoin (Sponsored Content)

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Just as mobile banking revolutionized our relationship with our money and led to a plethora of new tools for management and investing, the proliferati...

Introducing: Trumponomics

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tariffs, crypto, deregulation, tax cuts, protectionism, are just some of the things back on the table when Donald Trump returns to the Presidency. To ...

Elon Takes Spotlight at Inauguration and... on Video Games?

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

All eyes were on Washington, DC, this past weekend, when Elon Musk joined Donald Trump’s inauguration events bigly, as our once and current pres...

Elon Musk Gets Vetted for TikTok While Steve Bannon Seethes 

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Monday, Bloomberg News broke the story that Chinese officials were considering allowing Elon Musk to buy TikTok—something that, if it happene...

Elon Picks a Fight with the UK and Gets Imitated By Zuck

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For those who haven’t been following Elon Musk’s voluminous and combative X posts about the UK—good for you. It’s a confusing ...

Elon Musk Is Not Having a Happy New Year

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over the holiday break, Elon Musk was busy making news on X, furiously posting his way into a multipronged fight with ultra-right wing MAGA luminaries...

The Year in Elon, Part Two

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we established in our last podcast—an episode recapping 12 months of ups and downs and ups for the world’s richest man—this ...

The Year in Elon, Part One

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What a year 2024 has been for Elon Musk. From the ups-and-downs of Tesla stock, to his rapid ascent to the top of Republican party politics to various...

Emergency Podcast: Elon Musk is Shutting Down the Government

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For the past day or so, Elon Musk has been singularly focused, on X, on one target: funding the US government. He has, basically, single-handedly, kil...

Musk and Altman Enter 'Post Old Emails' Era of Feud

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The simmering feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is boiling again. In the latest round, OpenAI, which is being sued by Musk, uncorked a long post l...

Mr. Musk Goes to Washington (and Paris... and Mar-a-lago...)

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk is frequently on the move, but in his new role as Donald Trump’s wealthiest enforcer, he seems to be everywhere at once. One minute he...

Elon Loses (Again) in Delaware, Might Gain New Tesla Customers

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This holiday season, it would seem that Elon Musk has much to be thankful for—he even spent Thanksgiving by Donald Trump’s side in Mar-a-Lago. But...

The DOGE Team of MAGA Billionaires Takes Shape

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There have been a lot of raised eyebrows over Elon Musk’s “DOGE” (not the cryptocurrency), short for Trump 2.0’s “Department of Government E...

Listen Now: Beak Capitalism from Odd Lots

24 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this limited series, Odd Lots explains some of the thorniest issues facing the US economy through the medium of … chicken. Chicken occupies a uni...

Citizen Elon, Episode 3: Vox Dei

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Donald Trump claimed victory, early in the morning of Nov. 6, he did so not only for himself, his campaign staff and the voters who backed him–...

Elon Won't Leave Mar-a-Lago but are Users Fleeing X?

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Does money speak? And if so, what is it saying about Elon Musk and Donald Trump? In this episode of Elon, Inc., the panel—host David Papadopoulos, E...

Elon Becomes the First Friend

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s hard to believe it’s only been a week since the US presidential election. First Friend Elon Musk has been very busy—from talking on the pho...

Elon Did It

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mere hours after Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election, Elon, Inc. headed to the studio to do some processing. Max Ch...

The Stakes are Sky High for Elon Musk

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Consider this your Elon Musk-election night buffet: the Elon, Inc. crew, headed by host David Papadopoulos, discuss what’s at stake for Musk and wha...

Listen Now: US Election Coverage on Bloomberg Podcasts

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Be in the know this election with Bloomberg Podcasts. Follow Bloomberg News Now for up-to-the minute election results, all night long. And go deeper w...

Citizen Elon, Episode 2: Doomscaping

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk announced his support for Donald Trump on July 13, minutes after the attempt on Trump’s life at a rally in Pennsylvania. Since then, the c...

Musk Takes a Victory Lap at Trump Rally, Tesla Stock Surges

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This has been a huge week for Elon Musk: First, the Tesla stock rally, in reaction to a good earnings report, made him billions of dollars richer (at ...

Citizen Elon, Episode 1: Flipping the Table

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump and Elon Musk occupied two entirely different worlds. Until they didn’t. In this episode, we learn how their paths as public figures —...

What to Make of Elon's $1 Million Giveaway

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Elon Musk has made more headlines than usual as he travels all over Pennsylvania, working to help Donald Trump win the state in the Nov. 5 presidentia...

Introducing: Citizen Elon

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Over the course of one weekend in July, the presidential election was turned on its head. This is when news organizations announced that Elon Musk was...

Listen Now: The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly

20 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When sports, business and culture collide, there’s often a deal to be made. Join Alex Rodriguez and Bloomberg correspondent Jason Kelly as they get ...

Optimus is More Human than it Looks But SpaceX Nails the Landing

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of his disappointing “robotaxi” launch and Wall Street’s punishing response, Elon Musk had at least one reason to celebrate this pas...

The Robotaxi Verdict Is In

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was a late night for Tesla fans, investors and journalists as the much-discussed unveiling of Elon Musk’s “cybercab” (or is it “robotaxi?”...

Elon Bets Big on Trump and the Robotaxi

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week was supposed to be all about Thursday’s big Tesla unveiling—but Elon Musk jumped (literally) on stage with his new best friend, Donald T...

'Remigration' Takes Flight on X, The Story of ElonJet

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we’ve previously discussed here on Elon, Inc., the billionaire’s posts on X have grown more and more political—and right wing—over time. Th...

An Incomplete Guide to Elon’s Feuds

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Feuds. Can’t beat ‘em, can’t stop ‘em. At Elon, Inc., we’ve long covered Elon Musk’s penchant for a public feud at the end of episodes, bu...

Elon Tests Limits of Free Speech while SpaceX Racks Up the Wins

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we chronicle every week on Elon, Inc., Elon Musk contains multitudes. He leads six companies, runs his own social-media platform and is now explici...

Inside Musk's Plans for Mars, What's Going On with Tesla and xAI

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Does Elon Musk consider all of his companies to be one giant company? That’s something that comes up in today’s episode as host David, Dana and Ma...

Musk See TV

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After months of back and forth, Brazil finally did what it’s been threatening to do: ban X. This comes on the heels of government complaints from Br...

SpaceX to the Rescue, Who's Who of X Dramas

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tesla is often heralded as Elon Musk’s premiere company, the business at the foundation of all his other businesses. But as Tesla has struggled and ...

Listen Now: Misconception

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Reality TV stars are freezing their eggs on camera. Lawmakers in DC are debating federal protection for IVF. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being...

Grok-Generated Chaos, Cybertruck In Strange Places

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, X users might have noticed a new kind of artificial intelligence-generated image proliferating: strange visions of Elon Musk next to Disney...

The Musk-Trump Conversation, Musk in China

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Monday night, Donald Trump sat down for an interview with Elon Musk on Musk’s social media platform, X. An unfiltered conversation between two of th...

AI Gets Frothy and Elon's Impact on Texas

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As the world reacts to US Vice President Kamala Harris’s own vice-presidential pick, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, our attention stays focused on Mo...

Elon Musk Goes on Politics Posting Rampage and Why He Left California

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Presidential political news—and memes—continue to electrify the American public. And it seems they’ve had an effect on Elon Musk as well, seeing...

Biden Drops out, Musk Tweets for Trump, and Elon Loses a Superfan

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When President Joe Biden announced that he was dropping his campaign for re-election, the news reached most people via the President's post to X. Some...

Elon Gives Big Donation, Big Endorsement and Big Advice to Donald Trump

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The fortunes of Elon Musk and Donald Trump have been converging for the better part of the past year. But over the past week, the union became officia...

SpaceX Cancel Culture, PayPal Mafia Feuds, and a Debate Over (Short) Shorts

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bloomberg reporters Josh Eidelson and Loren Grush recently went deep on a tangle of lawsuits orbiting SpaceX, all related to toxic workplace allegatio...

Tesla Stems the Bleeding, SpaceX Set to Destroy

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tuesday was a big day in the world of Tesla, which reported its second-quarter sales numbers. After a disastrous start to 2024, and despite year-over-...

Elon Obsesses Over Babies and Linda Yaccarino Loses an Ally

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why is Elon Musk so obsessed with birth rates? And what is he doing about it? Those questions are at the heart of today’s episode, as well as the Bl...

Pay Dirt! Elon's Pay Package, X's Payments Plan

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, we wondered whether Elon Musk would get his pay package approved in a shareholder vote—and we got our answer. According to Musk and Tesla...

Bonus: Is Elon Serious About Colonizing Mars?

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Max and Dana recently joined Ashlee Vance as guests on Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast for a special Elon Musk episode. The wide ranging discussion cov...