The private circle controlling SpaceX and government
The private circle controlling SpaceX and government  
Podcast: Elon Musk Podcast
Published On: Tue May 26 2026
Description: His name is Antonio Gracias, a handsome private equity investor from Detroit. The two met through the Silicon Valley web at the turn of the century, and soon Gracias—at 55, just one year older than Musk—lent Musk $1 million in his early days at Tesla, when the company was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.