A train of Starlink satellites imaged from the ground — Starlink satellites imaged from CTIO (NSF NOIRLab / CTIO / AURA / DELVE, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons).

DATA UPLINK

Sources

Everything on this site traces back to these. Primary sources first.

Primary sources

Tesla, Inc. — SEC filings (10-K, proxy statements). Company history, executive roles, the SolarCity acquisition, compensation matters. sec.gov
SpaceX — company announcements and webcasts. Launch records, Starship flight tests, Starlink deployment figures. spacex.com
NASA — Commercial Crew, CRS, and Artemis announcements. Contract awards (December 2008 CRS; Commercial Crew milestones; Starship HLS selection). nasa.gov
“The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan,” Tesla blog, August 2, 2006 — the full text quoted on Sayings.
“Master Plan, Part Deux,” Tesla blog, July 20, 2016.
“Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species,” International Astronautical Congress, Guadalajara, September 27, 2016; “Making Life Multiplanetary,” IAC Adelaide, September 29, 2017 — SpaceX presentations.
MIT AeroAstro Centennial Symposium, October 24, 2014 — the AI-warning talk quoted on Sayings.
SEC v. Musk — complaint and settlement documents, September 2018 (the “funding secured” tweet).
Musk’s open letter to Twitter advertisers, October 27, 2022.
“Hyperloop Alpha,” August 12, 2013 — the open-source concept paper.
Neuralink launch event, July 16, 2019; FDA human-trial approval, May 2023 (company announcement).
Unsworth v. Musk — defamation trial, Los Angeles, December 2019 (jury verdict for Musk).

Reporting

Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Ecco, 2015).
Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk (Simon & Schuster, 2023).
Tim Urban, “The Cook and the Chef: Musk’s Secret Sauce” and the SpaceX/Tesla series, Wait But Why (2015) — long-form interviews.
60 Minutes, “Elon Musk” segment, CBS, March 18, 2012.
Reuters, “Musk’s Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests,” December 5, 2022.
Ongoing coverage: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and the Associated Press — used for dated facts (acquisitions, trials, appointments).

Image provenance

Every photograph on this site is listed in the image credits on this page with its Wikimedia Commons source, license, and attribution. Licenses in use: Public Domain (U.S. federal works, NASA), CC0, CC BY 2.0, CC BY 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What this site is not

Not an authorized biography, not a fan site, not a hit piece. It synthesizes public sources under the policy on Methodology. For current figures that move (net worth, valuations), consult Forbes and Bloomberg directly — this site deliberately does not print stale numbers.

Source notes

Bibliography as of September 2026. Primary sources are linked where stable URLs exist; books and broadcast interviews are cited by title and date.