“The heroes of the books I read, The Lord of the Rings and the Foundation series, always felt a duty to save the world.“
~Elon Musk
Elon’s businesses are seen through the lens of saving the world.
They are distilled as Mission Statements and Master Plans.
With SpaceX the overarching goal is to make human life multi-planetary with a city on Mars.
Tesla has four master plans, in fact.
Two have already been completed in full.
On Tesla’s website there are links to the other four Master plans:
The first plan summarizes them as:
- Build sports car
- Use that money to build an affordable car
- Use that money to build an even more affordable car
- While doing above, also provide zero emission electric power generation options
Plan deux is:
- Create stunning solar roofs with seamlessly integrated battery storage
- Expand the electric vehicle product line to address all major segments
- Develop a self-driving capability that is 10X safer than manual via massive fleet learning
- Enable your car to make money for you when you aren’t using it
Master Plan Part 3 the mission is:
A roadmap for achieving a fully sustainable global energy economy by shifting all energy use—transport, heating, industry—to renewable sources.
This is explained .PDF to outline a proposed path to reach a sustainable global energy economy through end-use electrification and sustainable electricity generation and storage.
With Plan 4the mission is :
We’re accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable abundance.
It is posted on X and Elon calls it Master Plan Part IV.
The new Tesla Model S Plaid is the fastest production car in the world and the first production car ever to go 0-60 MPH in under 2.0 seconds. It also goes 0-100 km/h in 2.1 seconds. This is called the “Tesla effect” and Tesla has affected the entire market to shift towards Electricity by 2035…
In Tesla’s X post Tesla claims Since Tesla’s founding, each iteration of our master plan has focused on our north star: to deliver unconstrained sustainability without compromise.
The PDF about this topic and landing page prior explain Growth is infinite and in videos such as the Nov 2025 video with Joe Rogan Elon explain this will likely mean unlimited goods and services for everyone. Eventually.
Elon has completed parts one and two and has made amazing strides forward with plans 3 and 4.
Tesla’s Optimus Robots Elon claims will become a bigger business than the cars by affecting the labor force and helping create sustainable abundance at scale.
xAi and Grok (ai) are two (somewhat) new ventures which playing more of a and a term Elon has been using more and more is Convergence to describe the crossover between his companies.
What makes this most impressive is how he has done so while building a rocket company which sends more payload to orbit than all other companies and countries combined, and the only rockets which relaunch.
SpaceX has hustled its way into the #1 spot in the world of rockets with an awesome mission as well. The Mission of SpaceX is found at SpaceX.com/mission where it says:
“You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great – and that’s what being a spacefaring civilization is all about. It’s about believing in the future and thinking that the future will be better than the past. And I can’t think of anything more exciting than going out there and being among the stars.” -Elon Musk
Revolutionizing the Automotive and Aerospace Companies
Elon’s brilliant mind, epic work ethic and the awesome teams he has assembled have produced the most valuable car company in the world: Tesla.
Simultaneously Elon and his teams have built the most successful rocket company in the world: SpaceX.
And when the epic SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket first lifted off it became the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two.
The new Starship rocket exceeds even Falcon Heavy with the Super Heavy booster boasting 33 Raptor engines in the first stage booster, and six Raptor engines in the upper stage.
SpaceX has effectively revolutionized the rocket industry with their ability to rapidly launch, refurbish, and re-use rockets.
The Falcon Heavy can lift more than twice the payload of the next closest operational vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy, at one-third the cost.
As of the time of writing (December 2025) SpaceX has launched 591 completed missions.
And even though Elon has sent his original Tesla Roadster into orbit around Mars and the sun, Elon is down to Earth…for now.
And the best part is with SpaceX the mission of making life multiplanetary is well on its way to becoming a reality. There is a mission coming when Mars is closest to Earth.
The rocket will have the name Heart of Gold. Inspired by the book Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
However with strong growth so far of his core companies in 2023 so Elon looks in strong shape to regain the title and is well positioned for even greater financial growth in the future…
Elon enjoyed a number of achievements in recent years, specifically with rolling out the Starlink high speed internet system and his massive move to buy the social network Twitter for $44 billion.
As of mid-December 2025, Starlink has over 10,000 satellites launched, with around 9,000+ actively operational and providing internet service.
Interestingly DOGE spelled backwards is E God…and Elon calls himself the Dogefather. DOGE in the US government context means Department of Government Efficiency.
DOGE is also a crypto currency with the symbol $DOGE. He has said “Don’t bet the farm on DOGE” in the past so be careful with your investments. DOGE has supply added to the market daily so be careful when investing as it is not anti-inflationary in design like Bitcoin.
Elon’s massive wealth is a great indication of the value he has added to the market.
His humanity saving missions are his why.
