The three smartest people Elon Musk has ever met.

The common thread among the three people Elon Musk considers the smartest and most admired is their close ties to prestigious technology corporations.

Elon Musk praised three major American tech founders. Photo: Bloomberg

Larry Ellison, Larry Page, and Jeff Bezos are three of the smartest people Elon Musk has ever met. He shared this in the "Verdict" podcast, released on March 17th, when asked a question by the host – Republican Senator Ted Cruz.

"Larry Ellison is very intelligent," Musk remarked about the Oracle co-founder. "I think he's one of the smartest people."

Next, he mentioned Larry Page, co-founder and former CEO of Google, and finally Jeff Bezos, the man behind Amazon. “Jeff Bezos has accomplished many difficult and great things,” Musk said.

Despite being rivals in the space race for 20 years – with Musk owning SpaceX and Bezos running Blue Origin – Musk still praised the Amazon billionaire. According to him, intelligence can be judged by the achievements a person makes.

According to Insider, the wealth of these three billionaires is declining sharply. According to Bloomberg, the net worth of Ellison, Page, and Bezos is $169 billion, $149 billion, and $218 billion, respectively. Musk alone has lost 30% of his wealth in just 10 weeks due to the volatility of Tesla stock.

In the podcast, Musk also discussed the DOGE office at the White House and federal staff cuts. He stated that the US government is "worse than I thought" but there are still many opportunities for improvement.

However, this view faced criticism from some employees and the public, including Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.

Wozniak argues that the government should carefully seek to cut down on inefficiencies and cumbersome bureaucracy, “with a scalpel instead of a sledgehammer.”

He also criticized DOGE's mass layoffs of federal employees, calling it "bullying."

(According to Insider, CNBC)

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