Elon Musk went from $180 million to broke in 2008. Then NASA called with a $1.5 billion contract.
After PayPal, Elon’s share was $180 million. He bet all of it on two companies everyone said would fail: Tesla and SpaceX.
By 2008 he was 37, and everything was going wrong at once.
SpaceX had launched three rockets. All three failed to reach orbit.
Tesla’s first car, the original Roadster, had quality problems. The factory was full of cars that couldn’t be delivered. Every month cost tens of millions.
The economy collapsed into the worst recession since the Great Depression.
And, as he put it, he was getting divorced, by the way, to add to that. That was definitely the worst year of my life.
His fortune was gone. When Tesla called investors for money, some cursed at them and hung up. Asked if he was broke, he said: more than broke.
On the Sunday before Christmas he woke up and thought he was closer to a nervous breakdown than he had ever been.
SpaceX had money for one more launch. A fourth failure would have been game over.
Flight four worked.
The week of Christmas, NASA called with a $1.5 billion contract. Elon blurted out: I love you guys.
Two days later, on Christmas Eve, Tesla’s investors agreed to put in more money.
Both companies were saved within three days.
In the middle of all this he met Talulah Riley. They were engaged after about two weeks. She was 22 and walked into a house with his five young sons.
This week Tesla unveiled a new Roadster. The car that almost ended him in 2008 now flips in midair.
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I’m firmly in the camp if you have to stay awake for 36 hours before kickoff so you don’t die from a blood clot you should probably skip playing that game.
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Replying to @gphi0711 @InjuryExpertz
I discussed it in the video.
In short:
He will always be at increased risk for blood clots, for the following reasons:
He has multiple blood clots in his lungs currently
Frequent travel due to occupation
Recurrent hits secondary to occupation
History of COVID virus (massive clot risk)
History of COVID vaccine (confirmed)
Players can’t play a contact sport while on blood thinners.
Only way to prevent development of future blood clots knowing the above risks?
Being placed on blood thinners indefinitely (likely the rest of his life).
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How could you put Jalen Hurts on that football field?
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Part 2, and my last post about my Shawn Ryan Show episode.
Last I heard, it had been edited. Then Shawn went on Diary of a CEO and described a woman whose interview he’d never release. That woman wasn’t me, unless he was lying.
But I never expected it to air, and here’s why:
I spent weeks prepping with Shawn’s team. I was booked to follow the money on TPUSA and the surveillance state, and naming names is what I do. I’m meticulous, and I never say anything I can’t prove. Then, right before we started filming, I was told I couldn’t name names. When I brought up who funds Flock Safety, the license plate cameras now in thousands of American towns, I was told not to say Andreessen Horowitz or Peter Thiel. You can’t follow the money without showing where the money flows. That’s when I realized this episode would never air, before we had even started.
So when I got home, I did what I do. I followed the money. And, turns out Shawn Ryan is invested in companies backed by the exact people I was told not to name, plus Israel.
(1) Anduril Industries: Ryan has been an investor since October 2025. Anduril started with surveillance towers and now builds drones and autonomous weapons. Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led its June 2025 round, and Andreessen Horowitz co-led its $5 billion round in May 2026. Those are the two names I was told to leave out. In February 2026, Anduril’s founder, Palmer Luckey, made an undisclosed trip to Israel and met with Netanyahu and senior defense officials. By June, Anduril was setting up an Israel operation to sell to Israel’s Ministry of Defense. Shawn had Palmer on his show in February 2025 and invested eight months later.
(2) Shield AI: Ryan has been an investor since November 2025. It builds AI-piloted drones and fighter jets. Andreessen Horowitz led its first major round and has kept investing ever since. Shawn had its co-founder on the show the same season he invested.
(3) Sesh: Ryan has been an investor since August 2025. Its $40 million round was led by 8VC, the venture firm of Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded Palantir with Peter Thiel. Lonsdale was a guest on Shawn’s show on May 7, 2026, less than three months before I taped. Palantir signed a strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense in 2024.
And Flock Safety, the company I came to talk about, is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, which led two of its rounds, and by Founders Fund, Peter Thiel’s fund.
So I was booked to expose who funds the surveillance state. I was told not to name Andreessen Horowitz or Peter Thiel. And the host has money in companies backed by Andreessen Horowitz, by Thiel’s fund, and by Thiel’s Palantir co-founder, including one that is building its business in Israel.
Then there’s the rest of it. Sarah Adams, his former network host, was messaging his team to keep me off (see Part 1 if you missed it). An IDF settlement contractor tagged the two of them together. Pro-Israel groups passed around her clip from his show as proof that Israel didn’t drive the war. And after his Diary of a CEO interview, accounts from the same network that spent the summer smearing me told everyone his “CIA woman” was me, citing “sources.” It wasn’t me. I never discussed a polygraph with Shawn Ryan, and it was never why I went on. So either he was talking about someone else, or somebody turned his story into a weapon against me.
Honestly, I don’t want the episode to air, and I told them so right after we taped, because it was a watered-down version of my work. How it all happened was a tough lesson learned for me in this industry. Now you know what was going on behind the scenes. If this episode doesn’t air, I can assure you it’s not because I’m a fraud. It’s because I won’t water down who funds the surveillance state, and I won’t sell out to protect anyone’s investments.
So there you have it.
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How can I turn off algorithms? I comment one thing and watch one video now my entire feed is the same videos and similar comments. Is there a way to turn it off or do I delete the app?
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If the Top 1% of Americans disappeared tomorrow, the 99% would face a catastrophe.
If the Bottom 1% of Americans disappeared tomorrow, the 99% would see an immediate improvement in their day-to-day quality of life and our country would be in a fundamentally better position.
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My outlook on SpaceX. Just posting for my own pleasure to look back on.
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Andre Williams calls Brandon Tatum and Marc Lamont Hill “house Negroes” 😳
“jews had Jesus killed!”
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Back in 2017, Elon Musk explained how Starship can completely transform Earth-to-Earth travel
“If you build a ship that's capable of going to Mars, what if you take that same ship and go from one place to another on Earth?”
Here's how it works:
Starship will eventually launch from one side of Earth, accelerate into a suborbital trajectory, coast across the planet at enormous speed, then land near the destination
Trips that take 10–15 hours by airplane could eventually take around 30–60 minutes
New York to Paris in about 30 minutes
A flight that normally consumes most of your day could become shorter than many people’s daily commute
Starship is being built for orbit, the Moon and Mars
But that same vehicle can completely redefine how humans travel across Earth too

















