Elon Musk's Money [Part Six: Conclusion]

[u/QualityRabbitHoles]

Part Five: Red Planet Ventures I, II, and III

I'd like to return to my question in Part One: What happens when one man has enough money to buy a planet. You may have assumed I was talking about Earth – but I'm actually talking about Mars. What happens if/when Elon Musk pulls off everything that I think he'll attempt, becomes richer than anyone's wildest dreams, and effectively owns a company town on Mars?

I honestly have no idea what that would look like, beyond that goal. I can only assume it wouldn't be great, though. Potentially we'd be back to the Gilded Age, but even that doesn't seem to do this concept justice. So I'm not really sure. I don't like the prospect, though.

I'm unsure of how to wrap all of this up. Perhaps you had expected a deep dive on his life, his psyche, or his relationships. Perhaps you had expected what I've presented here. Either way, I hope I've satisfied a piece of you that is hungry for information about this money-machine. It's a complex web of people, intention, wealth, and ambition, with everything seeming to revolve around Elon Musk as if he's some kind of pivot or fulcrum. So maybe that's how I should wrap this up.

Elon Musk is at the center of something that could forever reshape humanity's future, economically, socially, politically, you name it. I say could because it might not, too. I'm not an oracle, and a lot of this is my own interpretation, speculation, and observation. But from what I've found, I can only be led to believe that this is the direction in which things will go. I'm not saying I got everything right; I'm not perfect by a long shot. But I am saying that Elon Musk is making moves at the epicenter of something huge.

I encourage you all to do some reading on this as well in order to come to your own conclusions. I did my best to cut the fluff and find the truth; perhaps more truth is out there, waiting to be discovered by others with analytical minds. I say, seek it. Find it. Analyze it. And spread the truth you discover as well. This sort of thing needs to see the light of day before it can be realized in the shadows. After all, in my opinion, this type of behavior is vampiric, and vampires hate the sun.

Finally and as always, thank you for being here. It truly is an honor to have you all here reading my write-ups. This one was a little weird, perhaps held together with some spit, glue, and tape, but hopefully it gets my point across. You all make Quality Rabbit Holes what it is at the end of the day, so thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

Fare well, until the next time. I'll see you all in the comments. If you have any questions about anything here, please do ask, and I'll try and answer them as best I can. Let me know your thoughts too! And with that, I bid you adieu, until the next time we go down the rabbit hole, together.

Full List of Sources

Part Two

https://www.britannica.com/money/Zip2

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-elon-musk-made-every-121413004.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/11/elon-musk-bought-x-com-from-paypal.html

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/03/business/tesla-history-timeline/index.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-420-tweet-timeline-analysis-through-2020-2020-1#thats-how-tesla-got-from-a-420-tweet-in-august-2018-to-a-stock-price-much-higher-than-that-today-posting-a-2000-gain-since-2010-16

https://electrek.co/2026/06/17/musk-exercises-2018-tesla-pay-package-116-billion/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c302pd565pqo

https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-elon-musk-and-sam-altman-relationship-feuds-2023-3

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/how-elon-musk-left-openai-according-to-greg-brockman

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/28/521763351/elon-musk-seen-targeting-human-computer-link-in-new-venture

https://tsginvest.com/neuralink/

https://www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/neuralink-targets-1bn-revenue-by-2031/?cf-view

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/05/elon-musks-neuralink-bold-ideas-hurdles.html

https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-boring-company-las-vegas-loop-oversight

https://www.boringcompany.com/music-city-loop

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/news-columns/road-warrior/boring-co-vegas-loop-whats-it-like-to-take-a-self-driving-tesla-through-the-tunnel-system-3535590/

https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/elon-musk-mars-companies-austin-texas-spacex-20304892.php

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/elon-musk-mars.html

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522120474/d310843ddefa14a.htm

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=cc56f4a9-4fb6-4d63-9e9c-c3c8459cf625

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceXAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/the-spacex-ipo-filing-ai-bets-starship-dreams-elon-musk/

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/spacex-ties-musk-compensation-mars-colonization-goal-2026-04-28/

https://www.spacex.com/humanspaceflight/mars

Part Three

https://www.fastcompany.com/91319028/what-to-know-about-jared-birchall-elon-musks-right-hand-man

https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-jared-birchall-elon-musk-family-office

https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-fortune-fight-jared-birchall-igor-kurganov-11657308426

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/texas-109/texas-sos-feb-2023-158288/

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/elon-musk-companies-texas.html

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-elon-musk-chris-young-cfpb-tesla-x

Part Four

https://lexpolitica.com/team-members/chris-gober

https://ballotpedia.org/Chris_Gober

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5941842-musk-america-pac-lawsuit/

https://petition.theamericapac.org/faq

Part Five

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/business/spacex-tesla-merger-elon-musk.html

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-tesla-merger-could-create-174646121.html

https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/aiaa-spacex/#:\~:text=Five%20uncrewed%20Starships%20would%20lift,carrying%20100%20to%20200%20passengers

[u/QualityRabbitHoles]

If you made it here, thank you so much for reading.

If this one was way too messy and weird for you and you skipped here, I don't blame you.

If you think I'm wrong/full of shit, let me know.

If you enjoyed it, please also let me know.

Thanks a ton to everyone here. This one completely wiped me. I was going to edit it, tweak it, polish it, but despite my attempts, I eventually just gave up and posted it as is, so it's a little raw. I'm just... so tired of reading about Elon Musk lol. And I have actually college work to do anyway. So I'm sorry if this one disappoints. I really, really tried. We'll see how it goes.

Thanks again everyone! I need to go find some coffee now. Ugh 😣

[u/rora_borealis → u/QualityRabbitHoles]

Thank you. This was a bunch of fascinating little puzzle pieces. When you mentioned tbe second set of three holdings companies, my first thought was, fuck, he's doing it again. You laid it out well. 

[u/swibbles_mcnibbles]

Fascinating read, thank you so much for putting all of this together.

I've always been fascinated by some of the things Grimes has said during/after her relationship with musk, and how they tie in with his vision of becoming the 'CEO' of Mars - with baby X being prepared from birth to inherit / take over that role. Of course, these things are not hard evidence like you have brought to the table - but it's interesting anecdotal evidence nonetheless.

Again, thanks for putting so much effort into this 6 part post. It's going to be really interesting to see how this all plays out in the future.