Ashlee VanceNYT Best Seller | Reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek

They Spent $1 Million To Build Elon Musk This

10 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker explains that they personally raised roughly $1 million—using their own funds—and spent several months working to create a statue of Elon Musk. They describe the statue’s cost and their deep admiration for Musk and SpaceX, arguing that the statue belongs at Starbase because the site represents humanity’s most spectacular boundary‑pushing endeavors and will be historically significant. The speaker also expresses uncertainty about whether Starbase will accept the statue.

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But the thing is, we had no money left to come and install it. So we had to work for a few months to earn money and to come here and finally install it. Everything here for the statue is like $1 million. It was from our own money. It's so hard to grasp how much they bring to humanity, Elon Musk and SpaceX. So we want it to be installed in Starbase because it's the place on Earth that pushes the boundaries in the most spectacular way. This place will be one of the most important places in human history. What if Starbase doesn't want this?