In October 2024,
Pavel Durov published a long
post about how he built
VKontakte (the largest Russian social network at the time, often called "Russian Facebook") and later transitioned to developing Telegram. In that post, he came to an important realization:
there are no complex tasks, any big, overwhelming goal is simply a collection of many small tasks that need to be properly broken down and arranged in the right order.
Later, in July 2025, Pavel posted
on 𝕏 (formerly Twitter) about mathematics, once again emphasizing this skill — the ability to break complex problems into small steps and solve them in the correct sequence. Elon Musk even replied to that post.
Here’s what I realized:Elon Musk owns multiple companies operating in completely different fields:Tesla — electric vehicles, energy, autonomous driving, Optimus (humanoid robots)
SpaceX — rockets, space exploration, Starship
Starlink (a SpaceX division) — satellite internet
𝕏 (formerly Twitter) — social media platform
Neuralink — brain-computer interfaces (neural implants)
The Boring Company — tunnel construction and underground transportation systems
xAI (now part of SpaceX) — artificial intelligence (Grok)
Even though these companies are involved in vastly different industries, they are all ultimately working toward Elon Musk’s main long-term goal — to colonize Mars and make humanity a multi-planetary species.
Each company solves a critical piece of the puzzle: transportation, energy, communication, radiation protection, AI, and human health. That’s why Musk isn’t just building separate businesses — he’s creating an entire interconnected technological ecosystem.