The State of AI: Elon’s $1T Package, Apple’s $600B for Trump & How Startups Win w/ Dave, AWG & Blitzy Founders Brian Elliott & Sid Pardeshi | EP #193
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
PHD Ventures
4.8 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A piece of muse I saw yesterday that had me scratch in my head, which was the trillion-dollar pay package for Elon. |
| 0:07.3 | Elon Musk could officially become the first trillionaire. Just about a trillion dollars in stock. |
| 0:12.8 | It's a striking number, but the benchmarks that he has to meet are also equally striking. |
| 0:18.5 | He's not just the leader of the company. He's the marketing voice. |
| 0:22.3 | If we really do expect to find ourselves in an abundant society soon, we should expect to have a lot |
| 0:27.3 | of trillionaires in our society. Money will start to have far less value than ever before. |
| 0:32.6 | If we're really on the verge of abundance, then what comes after that? What's going to remain scarce, |
| 0:39.9 | even as energy and intelligence, the cost of both of those goes to zero. But stuff is changing so |
| 0:44.9 | quickly. Media is changing quickly. Elon is paving a new path for what it means to be a great |
| 0:49.2 | corporate CEO. But it's going to change again, and it's going to change again, it's going to change |
| 0:52.9 | again. A trillion dollars here, a trillion dollars there. |
| 0:55.3 | How do you compete? What's your moat? |
| 0:57.2 | So, Brian and Sid, welcome. |
| 1:00.1 | Pleasure to have you both. |
| 1:04.0 | Now that's the moonshot, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 1:09.0 | Everybody, welcome the moonshots. |
| 1:10.5 | The news that really matters in your life. |
| 1:12.2 | I'm here with my moonshot mates, Dave Blundon, Alex Weisner Gross. |
| 1:17.2 | We're going to have a conversation today about David versus Goliath. |
| 1:20.7 | We're talking about trillion-dollar commitments, trillion-dollar pay packages. |
| 1:25.2 | It's insane. |
| 1:26.3 | But first of all, one of the most important pieces of news is Alex. I'm reading the comments. And what I keep on hearing is people want you, ask you a question, just have you talked for the entire episode. They love what you have to say. So I'm not going to do that today. But everybody, if you're, if you knew to Moonshots, Alex has been just |
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