Matt Levine, Columnist

Elon Musk Wanted Control, Not Charity

OpenAI, Celsius earnings leak, Crown Castle fiduciary out, top secret dating and Crypto: The Fragrance.

March 6, 2024 at 6:51 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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Here is a partial list of things that Elon Musk has thought are the most important things in the world:

I want to make a few points about this list. First: It’s a fine list? Stopping climate change, colonizing space, and changing public discourse are all reasonable things to prioritize. There are tech founders who are like “I wanted to solve the problem that sometimes when I order food delivery, it arrives cold”; Elon Musk is not a founder like that.1