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Elon once 'won' poker by, according to Levchin, "Elon just proceeded to go all in on every hand and lose. Then he would buy more chips and double down. Eventually, after losing many hands, he went all in and won. Then he said, ‘Right, fine, I’m done.’"

"Musk liked Obama. “I thought he was a moderate but also someone willing to force change,” he says. He got the impression that Obama was trying to size him up. “I think he wanted to get a sense if I was dependable or a little nuts.”"

Elon Musk once demanded the autopilot team fix a curve he regularly drove that caused problems. They could not get the software to work so they decided to: "ask the transportation department to repaint the lanes of that section of the highway...

When they got no response, they came up with a more audacious plan. They decided to rent a line-painting machine of their own, go out at 3 a.m., shut the highway down for an hour, and redo the lanes.

hey had gone as far as tracking down a line-painting machine when someone finally got through to a person at the transportation department who was a Musk fan. He agreed to have the lines repainted if he and a few others at the department could get a tour of SpaceX."

Elon Musk claimed "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever. Like my dad. Bullshitting can sometimes baffle the brain. If you just think of Trump as sort of a con-man performance, then his behavior sort of makes sense."

Elon Musk apparently hated the true information that shorts had more than he hated the false information: "Even worse was the true information... “They organized themselves into a shorty ground force and a shorty air force. The degree of inside information they had was insane.”"

Elon Musk had his pilot and plane crew fly him to Boulder so he could hang out with Kimbal while they had COVID. After they got bored in Boulder they had the crew fly them both back to Austin

Elon Musk had his team stay overnight to stack 'Starship' on the launchpad to pressure the FAA. 'Starship' was not ready to fly, and would not be ready for even its basic test flights for another 21 months.

Elon demanded that Grimes shame him for being fat.

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When the Tesla privacy team told him that he could not use the internal cameras in the cars based on their privacy policy he told them, "I am the decision-maker at this company, not the privacy team. I don't even know who they are. They are so private you don't even know who they are."

The surrogate carrying Musk and Grimes child was in the hospital at the same time that Elon Musk's underling who used his sperm to have children was in the hospital. Grimes was not aware he agreed to do this with Zilis (his Neuralink underling)