Elon Musk

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Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor. He is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, owner of X (formerly Twitter), and co-founder of Neuralink and The Boring Company. Musk is a recurring guest on The Joe Rogan Experience and holds the record for the most-viewed podcast episode on YouTube.

Podcast appearances

The Joe Rogan Experience (#1169, September 2018)

Musk's first appearance on the JRE with Joe Rogan became the all-time most-viewed podcast episode, accumulating approximately 69 million YouTube views. During the conversation, Musk smoked a cannabis joint offered by Rogan on camera. The clip circulated worldwide and was covered by mainstream news outlets. Tesla's share price dropped the following trading day, though causation is disputed. The episode is covered in detail at JRE #1169: Elon Musk.

Subsequent JRE appearances

Musk has returned to the JRE multiple times, including episode #2404. Later appearances drew less singular attention but consistently ranked among the show's highest-performing episodes. Topics across appearances have included artificial intelligence, space colonisation, neural interfaces, electric vehicles, and the acquisition of Twitter.

Significance

The 2018 Musk episode demonstrated that a podcast conversation could generate front-page news and move public markets. It is frequently cited as a turning point in podcasting's cultural influence, showing that the medium could produce events of consequence beyond its own audience.

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