Elon Musk’s Stock Picks
Earn Your Leisure
iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another insightful Market Mondays clip! In this dynamic conversation, Rashad Bilal, Ian Dunlap, and Troy Millings dive deep into Elon Musk's approach to investing and building wealth, discussing why the world's richest person chooses to focus on his own companies instead of diversifying into the stock market. The group reflects on Musk's revelation that, if he were to invest in stocks, his picks would be Google and Nvidia—two giants poised to lead the future of AI and data infrastructure. Ian Dunlap explains the strategy behind wealth building by creating assets and driving GDP, highlighting how building something revolutionary like SpaceX or Tesla yields far greater returns than typical investments. Troy Millings brings another layer by examining the synergy forming between tech titans like Google, Nvidia, and Elon Musk’s companies, especially with innovations like data centers in space powered by solar energy. The conversation pivots to practical advice for content creators and entrepreneurs, emphasizing the importance of investing in the platforms they use—namely Google (YouTube), Meta (Instagram, Facebook), and Apple (the originator of podcasting). The hosts also walk through historical returns for major tech ETFs and stocks, showing that even “safe” investments like QQQ, SPY, and XLY have brought substantial growth over the past decade. The group reiterates the critical role technology plays in driving the economy forward, pointing out how companies with strong net margins (like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta) outperform most others. Finally, Rashad Bilal and the team discuss common misconceptions around tech, media, and stock classifications, explaining how businesses with tech components can achieve far higher valuations and why understanding how money moves—even in music and media—can be transformative. Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur, tech investor, or curious about the intersection of AI, media, and wealth creation, this clip offers game-changing insights and actionable strategies. *Timestamps (available upon request)* --- *Key Topics:*
- Elon Musk’s philosophy on investing vs. building
- Why Google and Nvidia are top picks for the AI future
- Building wealth through owning and creating assets
- The importance of media platform investments for content creators
- Historic ETF and tech stock performance
- Understanding tech business classifications for higher valuations
- Partnerships and the future of data infrastructure (like space-based data centers)
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| 0:47.1 | Let's talk about Elon Musk. |
| 0:51.0 | He was asked recently, you know, if he, if like with stocks he, he, he's into. |
| 0:55.9 | And he was like, you know, he doesn't really invest in stocks too much. |
| 0:59.5 | I mean, it would make sense. |
| 1:01.1 | I love this answer. |
| 1:02.1 | The richest person in the world. |
| 1:03.1 | He was like, you know, he just focused on building his companies. |
| 1:06.0 | Then when his companies become public, then he owns a lot of stocks in that company, which is Tesla, which will soon be SpaceX, which will soon be, you know, a variety of different companies that he has involvement with. But he said if he did, if he did, you know, if he, if he were looking at the landscape and he were to pick two stocks, he said it would be, uh, Google. be Google. He said Google's done a tremendous job |
| 1:30.0 | as far as where they're going to be in the AI race. And then he said invidia is inevitable. Like, |
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