Many people think that Musk is just a billionaire who spends money recklessly and starts companies at random. However, the Wolf of Wall Street believes that behind each of Musk's companies and his crazy adventures is actually a preparation for the most daring colonization plan in human history: to build infrastructure for human migration to Mars. Musk really wants to send humanity to live on Mars, and his friend Cathie Wood has mentioned this multiple times in interviews; this is Musk's ultimate dream. This article is excerpted from the newsletter of Jordan Belfort, the real-life figure portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie 'The Wolf of Wall Street', who is now a writer and educator. After Musk fell out with Trump, there were many voices predicting his decline, but the most greedy representative of Wall Street explains why Musk is serious. He meticulously reveals that Musk's seemingly random companies are actually part of a carefully planned strategic initiative that entrepreneurs can use as a model for their own ambitions. The following is an organized translation of the report.
Tesla: The Lifeline of Transportation and Energy on Mars
On Mars, where internal combustion engines are unavailable and energy is extremely scarce, Tesla plays a core role in transportation and energy. Besides electric vehicles, what truly paves the way for Mars is Tesla's battery technology and energy storage systems. Mars receives only 43% of Earth's sunlight and may experience dust storms lasting for months. To address this, Tesla is developing Megapack energy storage devices that can withstand extreme conditions to power the entire colonization society.
The Boring Company: Building Martian Underground Cities for Humanity
The surface of Mars is inhospitable for human habitation, with a thin atmosphere and subjected to deadly radiation year-round. On such a planet, humans cannot live on the surface. Musk's The Boring Company is not developing subways on Earth, but underground cities on Mars.
The Boring Company is not just digging tunnels in Las Vegas and Los Angeles; it is accelerating the refinement of underground city construction techniques, and the underground tunnels connecting the two major cities will serve as reference facilities for building Martian underground cities.
SpaceX: The only option for sending humanity to Mars
To colonize Mars, you must first be able to get there. SpaceX is currently the only company with reusable and rapidly produced rockets. This is not just a transportation issue, but a key to establishing a direct route from Earth to Mars.
When you combine SpaceX, Tesla, and The Boring Company, a complete 'Trinity' transportation system emerges, with electric vehicles moving on the surface, tunnels underground, and rockets connecting interstellar travel.
Tesla Robots: The First Residents on Mars
Sending 5 million people to Mars is too expensive and too dangerous, but sending millions of robots is feasible. The robots Musk is creating are designed to operate in Mars' harsh environment without needing food, oxygen, or shelter. From building habitats to extracting resources and constructing infrastructure, these Humanoid Robots are the vanguard on Mars.
Mars Energy Blueprint: Tesla Energy / SolarCity
Mars has no power grid, nor coal and nuclear facilities, but it has vast areas of uninhabited land. The solar panels and energy storage systems from Solar City and Tesla Energy will operate at maximum efficiency in this environment. Here, energy supply is no longer at the city level, but at a 'planetary level' layout.
xAI: The Central Nervous System of Mars
You cannot manage an entire Martian colony as you would manage a city. The true purpose of xAI is not as a search engine or chatbot, but as an AI system capable of coordinating resources and missions across the entire planet. It will handle remote work, robot management, life support, supply chains, and ultimately the terraforming of Mars.
Neuralink: The Backup Plan for Human Consciousness
When colonizing Mars becomes a bet, human consciousness also needs a backup. Neuralink's brain-machine interface technology aims to enable digital storage and transfer of human consciousness. Even if colonization fails, Musk still hopes that human intelligence can continue.
In summary, what Musk is building is not seven unrelated companies, but a planet-scale vertically integrated system:
SpaceX Takes Humanity to Mars
Tesla Robots Building Mars Base
The Boring Company Builds Underground Cities
Tesla Energy Provides Power
Tesla Responsible for Transportation
xAI Operations Command Center
Neuralink Preserves Human Consciousness
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Jordan Belfort summarizes at the end of his newsletter that Musk's entrepreneurial mindset is not from a science fiction movie but is a profound inspiration for entrepreneurs. Musk doesn't just start companies; he builds a mutually supportive ecosystem, including the following key points:
Solving future problems: not targeting the current market but laying out challenges for the next 20 years in advance.
Turning limitations into advantages: the harsh environment of Mars is a source of innovation.
Extreme testing drives product evolution: technologies designed for Mars will excel on Earth.
Mastering core technologies to avoid platform dependency: from rockets to chips, every key technology must be kept in-house.
Side projects drive the main business: every 'seemingly distracting' project is actually paving the way for the main mission.
Establishing backup paths: even if one route fails, there are other ways to reach the destination.
Write down your 'Mars Mission'
Every entrepreneur and founder can write down their own 'Mars Mission', that seemingly impossible ultimate goal, and then start building the technology and resources they can create today. 'Ordinary companies compete for markets; great companies create markets.' Musk's dream is not just to colonize Mars, but to conduct an exercise that inspires human potential.
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