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“The most common error is optimizing a thing that should not exist in the first place. Elon's process always starts with 'delete the part' before you try to make it better or faster. He’s obsessed with the idea that the best part is no part and the best process is no process, which leads to radical simplicity in his engineering.”

“One of the methods we discuss is the idea that you should never accept a requirement from a department, only from a specific person. This stops the 'incrementalism creep' where everyone adds a small safety margin that eventually makes the whole project impossible. By holding individuals accountable for constraints, he forces the team to innovate rather than just add layers.”

“The market cap of Exor itself is only 13 billion euros. So that means you're buying those assets at a 60% discount to what they're actually worth on paper in the public markets. And then everything else—CNH, Stellantis, Phillips, they also have stakes in Juventus, the football club, and Christian Louboutin, as well as the business magazine, The Economist—you get all of those for free more or less.”

“The thing that really stands out when you look at how Elon operates is that speed is his primary moat. Most people think it's the technology or the capital, but it's actually the rate at which they iterate and learn from failure. He has created a culture where the cost of a slow decision is seen as much higher than the cost of a wrong but fast decision.”

“He has this incredible ability to ignore the 'industry standard' and go back to the literal laws of physics. If a rocket part costs a million dollars, he doesn't ask for a discount; he asks what the raw materials cost and why it can't be made for that amount. This first principles approach is what allows him to achieve these massive step-function improvements in cost.”

“Freeze the coins. They're out of circulation, but just put them back into the money. They can be mined over the next 100 years. I think just freeze those coins, put them back in. I'm surprised at how controversial this is. I guess we'll get into maybe just skip to one of these news stories.”

“Once you own the rights to a song, you essentially own a perpetual royalty stream with almost zero marginal cost of production. You don't need to manufacture anything. You don't need to run servers. You don't need to reprint the music every single time that somebody plays it. And that's why their free cash flow conversion is so astronomically high—north of 80% of operating profit converts to cash flow.”

“He has this incredible ability to ignore the 'industry standard' and go back to the literal laws of physics. If a rocket part costs a million dollars, he doesn't ask for a discount; he asks what the raw materials cost and why it can't be made for that amount. This first principles approach is what allows him to achieve these massive step-function improvements in cost.”

“Elon's worldview is much closer to a philosopher-king than a traditional CEO interested in a five-year exit strategy. He sees the light of consciousness as something fragile in the universe that needs to be protected and extended. Every business he starts is ultimately a tool designed to solve a specific existential threat to humanity's long-term survival.”

“The FHFA, the regulator that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, officially approved Vantage Score 4 as an alternative scoring model for those government-backed loans. And Vantage Score is owned jointly by the three major credit bureaus. This broke FICO's exclusive mandate for the first time in the company's history. So it was a big deal.”

“Trade Desk on the other hand has zero inventory. So they exclusively represent the buyer, which means that their incentive is entirely aligned with getting the advertiser the best possible outcome. And that neutrality is only much a structural advantage that the walled gardens, which is a term for these closed ad ecosystems like Google, like Amazon or Meta, generally can't replicate without actually dismantling their own business models.”

“When I got to neutral against Fed, Rafa, Novak, Murray, I was actually behind. So you're trying to play from a place where you're not totally neutral all the time. I tried coming in a ton against him, I tried staying back a bunch. I basically had to take shots at certain points and risk at certain points because if we were neutral, then I was actually behind.”

“Elon's worldview is much closer to a philosopher-king than a traditional CEO interested in a five-year exit strategy. He sees the light of consciousness as something fragile in the universe that needs to be protected and extended. Every business he starts is ultimately a tool designed to solve a specific existential threat to humanity's long-term survival.”

“Freeze the coins. They're out of circulation, but just put them back into the money. They can be mined over the next 100 years. I think just freeze those coins, put them back in. I'm surprised at how controversial this is. I guess we'll get into maybe just skip to one of these news stories.”

“Rafa could bully you with a heavy ball and still clear the net by four feet. So the net didn't even come into play. It would bounce just past the service line, and it's effective as if most people hit it four feet in front of the baseline. Right? So he didn't have to be perfect for it to be insanely heavy and effective. And so you feel that, and maybe you start playing that out over four or five hours, it's death.”

“BIP361 gets activated for three years. You can spend from legacy scripts, that's what we have now, or a new post-quantum script that gets created. Then that phase is sunset. So after three years, or after two years, then the nodes reject legacy scripts. And so that effectively freezes vulnerable coins or old, old coins.”

“He said, I want you to bring the gospel and the evidence and the receipts for the Resurrection to Davos. And so Gillian Tett, editor of Financial Times, provost of King's College, Cambridge University, interviewed me at USA House with a Washington Post-sponsored session, if you can believe that. It was shocking to me.”

“Every time a major city announced restrictions, which for example happened in New York City, but also in Barcelona, it kind of reminded investors that Airbnb's supply is ultimately dependent on regulatory tolerance. And that basically creates this uncertainty premium that a business like booking.com, which aggregate hotels that are obviously already legally operating, just doesn't carry to the same degree.”

“It's a nation or it's a government anyway that has for a long time really acted in opposition, explicit opposition to the interest of Christians, not just in The United States, but around the world, or foreign policy, for example, seems to target Christians. And this has happened consistently enough that it's probably not an accidental byproduct of the policy. It may be the point of the policy.”

“Among them will be the rise of a figure he describes as the man of lawlessness, sometimes describes as the Antichrist. And he says this, there will be a great rebellion against God led by that man of lawlessness. This man, quote, will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple proclaiming himself to be God. He will pose as God. He will mock other gods and put himself in their place.”

“There's actually no good outcome because either you let some random entity claim 1.7 million bitcoins, and we don't know who that is. It could be disastrous, it could be the end of Bitcoin. Or you change the core principle of Bitcoin, which is the monetary policy. That's also kind of unacceptable.”

“In fact, many Republican leaders shrugged it off. Self professed Christians shrugged off, no big deal. You know, he's just just true socialing. Don't pay attention. It's just a joke. It's just a joke. What? You have no sense of humor? Mocking Jesus? Giving the finger to God? You're so uptight. And as for his attacks on the pope, republican leader after republican leader, including just hours ago, the speaker of the house, the self described Christian, fervent Christian, bible scholar, joined in attacking the pope.”

“For the first time in Nintendo's history, a new console didn't mean that Nintendo had to rebuild its customer base. The Switch 2 is the first console that embraced an ecosystem-like approach. And so one major difference being backward compatibility, which means that a new console could play games from older console generations. That is just a huge value add and really simplifies things.”

“No major Wall Street institution was involved with Bitcoin in 2015 to 2017 at all, except for the CME. So now they need to get involved. They have clients, they have legal exposure. What are they gonna do? It's just a much bigger market now and the corporates are so much more important today.”

“The thing that really stands out when you look at how Elon operates is that speed is his primary moat. Most people think it's the technology or the capital, but it's actually the rate at which they iterate and learn from failure. He has created a culture where the cost of a slow decision is seen as much higher than the cost of a wrong but fast decision.”

“BIP361 gets activated for three years. You can spend from legacy scripts, that's what we have now, or a new post-quantum script that gets created. Then that phase is sunset. So after three years, or after two years, then the nodes reject legacy scripts. And so that effectively freezes vulnerable coins or old, old coins.”

“It's just the daily discipline. Like, the constant discipline over time over time. And that's the question mark with Jannik and Alcaraz—it's what they're doing currently times four as far as amount of time that they've been doing it. That's the difference between these 20 slam winners and Alcaraz and Sinner right now. It's not just that the tennis is phenomenal; you've got fifteen years to go.”

“No major Wall Street institution was involved with Bitcoin in 2015 to 2017 at all, except for the CME. So now they need to get involved. They have clients, they have legal exposure. What are they gonna do? It's just a much bigger market now and the corporates are so much more important today.”

“I call them a conglomerate of 100 small monopolies because what they do is they require businesses in the aerospace industry. The FAA or its international equivalents, they certify specific parts from specific manufacturers, and then once your part is on that design, it has to stay on that design. You cannot substitute it out even if a competitor builds something functionally identical.”

“The one on the right is the one the president sent out. White House communications officer, whoever does this, sent out, and you'll notice that it's been changed. And the American soldier over the president's head, the president as Jesus' head, has been changed and is now, if you look very carefully, a demon, some kind of winged creature of hell. So it goes from an image that suggests, you know, healing and light to an image that suggests, I don't know, a scene from Revelation, John's vision on the Isle Of Patmos, the end times, the apocalypse, who knows?”

“One of the craziest changes when looking at Reddit has just been the inflection and the margins of the business. Net income margins in 2024 were negative 37%, and by 2025, a year later, they were 24% in the positive direction. I'm not sure if I've ever seen such a margin turnaround for a company in one year or two years, even if some of that negative 2024 number is distorted by one-time IPO costs.”

“I call them a conglomerate of 100 small monopolies because what they do is they require businesses in the aerospace industry. The FAA or its international equivalents, they certify specific parts from specific manufacturers, and then once your part is on that design, it has to stay on that design. You cannot substitute it out even if a competitor builds something functionally identical.”

“Trump tweeted that he was planning on destroying civilian infrastructure in Iran. It was going to be bridge and power plant day, basically promising war crimes, crimes against civilians, against the population of the country. And then in that same tweet or truth, he used the f word on Easter Sunday, and then he seemed to make fun of Islam. Praise Allah, he said. So in one short statement of about a 110 words, he seemed to give the finger to the world's two largest religions.”

“One of the craziest changes when looking at Reddit has just been the inflection and the margins of the business. Net income margins in 2024 were negative 37%, and by 2025, a year later, they were 24% in the positive direction. I'm not sure if I've ever seen such a margin turnaround for a company in one year or two years, even if some of that negative 2024 number is distorted by one-time IPO costs.”

“I had to just keep following truth because I had more demonic spiritual warfare on me that week than I've ever had. I gave three presentations at WEF and could not wait to get home. It was just the weight of understanding that this is the first time in 55 years Jesus has ever been mentioned at the World Economic Forum.”

“If I'm a big asset manager, I'm just rejecting a fork out of hand that doesn't freeze the coins. It's too risky. So I think if there's a fork situation, there will be a market that emerges and the ETFs will pick one chain. They can't just have two; that's crazy.”

“The flexibility is like nobody I've ever seen. Right? We talk about power. We talk about Roger's grace, Rafa's power. We don't even say Novak's flexibility. Like, it needs to be in that conversation. There's a reason why you don't get hurt. But just the discipline of and the obsession with—the question I always have with Novak—would he have been as much of a maniac about his diet, about his fitness, if he didn't feel like he was the one chasing?”

“I wanted to make it clear that this idea of forgiving debts, this idea of free enterprise, these ideals that built Western civilization come from one event horizon, the physical, bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. That message rehumanized humanity, ideas of loving your enemies, forgiving debts that didn't come from Marxism, that didn't come from socialism.”

“Trade Desk on the other hand has zero inventory. So they exclusively represent the buyer, which means that their incentive is entirely aligned with getting the advertiser the best possible outcome. And that neutrality is only much a structural advantage that the walled gardens, which is a term for these closed ad ecosystems like Google, like Amazon or Meta, generally can't replicate without actually dismantling their own business models.”

“Once you own the rights to a song, you essentially own a perpetual royalty stream with almost zero marginal cost of production. You don't need to manufacture anything. You don't need to run servers. You don't need to reprint the music every single time that somebody plays it. And that's why their free cash flow conversion is so astronomically high—north of 80% of operating profit converts to cash flow.”

“What rises and falls, the stakes of if Jesus rose from the grave is the greatest X factor the world has ever known. This is not some kind of religious exercise we're doing just because it's a holiday and it's Easter. Everyone needs the gospel, and no one is beyond God's reach.”

“What you're holding in your hand is a replica of the spear that pierced our Lord's ribs through rib five and six. John's Gospel accurately records that blood and water spewed out. And the signature of that wound I just showed you is on the Shroud of Turin. You can actually see it; it almost looks like a figure eight blood pool.”

“The market cap of Exor itself is only 13 billion euros. So that means you're buying those assets at a 60% discount to what they're actually worth on paper in the public markets. And then everything else—CNH, Stellantis, Phillips, they also have stakes in Juventus, the football club, and Christian Louboutin, as well as the business magazine, The Economist—you get all of those for free more or less.”

“For the first time in Nintendo's history, a new console didn't mean that Nintendo had to rebuild its customer base. The Switch 2 is the first console that embraced an ecosystem-like approach. And so one major difference being backward compatibility, which means that a new console could play games from older console generations. That is just a huge value add and really simplifies things.”

“The FHFA, the regulator that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, officially approved Vantage Score 4 as an alternative scoring model for those government-backed loans. And Vantage Score is owned jointly by the three major credit bureaus. This broke FICO's exclusive mandate for the first time in the company's history. So it was a big deal.”

“There's actually no good outcome because either you let some random entity claim 1.7 million bitcoins, and we don't know who that is. It could be disastrous, it could be the end of Bitcoin. Or you change the core principle of Bitcoin, which is the monetary policy. That's also kind of unacceptable.”

“The most common error is optimizing a thing that should not exist in the first place. Elon's process always starts with 'delete the part' before you try to make it better or faster. He’s obsessed with the idea that the best part is no part and the best process is no process, which leads to radical simplicity in his engineering.”

“Every time a major city announced restrictions, which for example happened in New York City, but also in Barcelona, it kind of reminded investors that Airbnb's supply is ultimately dependent on regulatory tolerance. And that basically creates this uncertainty premium that a business like booking.com, which aggregate hotels that are obviously already legally operating, just doesn't carry to the same degree.”

“One of the methods we discuss is the idea that you should never accept a requirement from a department, only from a specific person. This stops the 'incrementalism creep' where everyone adds a small safety margin that eventually makes the whole project impossible. By holding individuals accountable for constraints, he forces the team to innovate rather than just add layers.”

“If I'm a big asset manager, I'm just rejecting a fork out of hand that doesn't freeze the coins. It's too risky. So I think if there's a fork situation, there will be a market that emerges and the ETFs will pick one chain. They can't just have two; that's crazy.”

“He was simultaneously maybe the first person in history, and now he's created, like, a clone who was simultaneously the best offensive and defensive player at the same time during his prime. It was always you excelled at one of the skills, and I think he was maybe one of the first that melted those two together where it's like, can't go through me, can't go around me. What are we doing here?”