How Elon Works
It started with an immediate call to SpaceX engineer Steve Davis, who proposed a standard $5 million machine boring a plain 40 foot hole with no concrete lining. The machine was redesigned to start nose down, like a gopher.

A tunneling company aiming to dig cheap, fast tunnels under cities.
It started with an immediate call to SpaceX engineer Steve Davis, who proposed a standard $5 million machine boring a plain 40 foot hole with no concrete lining. The machine was redesigned to start nose down, like a gopher.
OtherA consumer technology company that makes the Mac, iPod, iPhone and software.
OtherGoogle's web search product, now including AI Overviews, AI Mode and Lens.
OtherGoogle's app store for Android, with its own listing rules and search ranking.
John D. Rockefeller's oil refining company that came to dominate American kerosene and oil distribution.
OtherThe world's leading contract chip maker, a pure-play foundry that manufactures chips for fabless designers.
OtherAn electric car maker that builds its own key components and factories.
OtherA semiconductor company that made memory chips and the first microprocessor.
OtherA private aerospace company building reusable rockets, the Dragon capsule, Starship and the Starlink satellite network.