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Elon is a positive force who's had to run multiple companies that are heavily regulated, so he has a realistic view; since he's lived it, he can be influential,
Narasin said of Musk's track record of building Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI The most exciting thing of all will be putting Elon in charge of government efficiency,
Ben Narasin, founder and general partner of Tenacity Venture Capital, told BI of the election outcome Elon's going to be an enormously positive monster who delivers a cleaned up, slimmed down, pro-business government, and there will be prosperity for everybody,
Trump-Vance ticket is the first unabashedly pro-tech presidency in our Nation's history,
said Augustus Doricko, CEO and founder of cloud seeding startup Rainmaker I think the next four years will be imbued with aspirational mega-projects and visionary initiatives without precedent,
At a high level, we expect Trump to cut corporate taxes and regulations, helping startup M&A and investment,
said Mason Angel, general partner at Industrious Ventures Trump created the Space Force in 2019, and his close relationship with Elon Musk will bring renewed attention and government investment into the field,
Industrious Ventures' Angel said I would like to see the President given the power to unilaterally remove, or at least streamline, regulations around major projects or economic areas that will make it possible to actually build new things,
tech blogger Ben Thompson wrote after the election With a major push to remove unnecessary red tape and over-regulation in key areas, we could really have a century of crazy building, innovation, and acceleration,
Aaron Levie, the CEO of cloud company Box and a Harris supporter, posted on X Wednesday Effective accelerationism! E-acc,
Mark Pincus, an early Facebook investor and the founder of Zynga, responded on X ... referring to the recent Silicon Valley movement that wants technological advancements in AI to move as fast as possible, without any guardrails To a large extent, that's what explains many of his successes, and his excesses as well,
A lot of people, when they try to understand Elon Musk, they try to read his behaviors through the lens of business incentives,
says Bhaskar Chakravorti, dean of global business at the Fletcher School at Tufts University For somebody like Musk, it's probably the case that you have a very strong personal interest in pursuing a particular policy agenda that you don't think can be controlled in a more indirect fashion,
For Musk, I think there's an almost messianic belief in his own efficacy and a really clear agenda around frontier technologies,
He has, at least through people that he appointed, a record of being tough on tech in terms of competition issues,
said Prof Rebecca Haw Allensworth, associate dean at Vanderbilt University law school China is afraid of Google,
Trump said last month when he questioned whether a corporate split of Google could “destroy the company”. We want to have great companies,
Is it possible for Elon to put a Starship on the surface of Mars in a one-way mission by the end of Trump's term? Absolutely, he certainly could do that,
said Scott Pace, the top space policy official during Trump's first term Is that a manned mission on Mars? No,
At a minimum, we're going to get a more realistic Mars plan, you'll see Mars being set as an objective,
said Doug Loverro, a space industry consultant who once led NASA's human exploration unit under Trump, who served as U.S. president from 2017 to 2021
