Twitter: ElonJet Founder tracks down Musk’s and Zuckerberg’s flights
ElonJet’s founder Jack Sweeney joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss how he tracks down the flights of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, using public flight data.
Video Transcript
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JACK SWEENEY: You know, originally, it was just interest in following Elon Musk because I thought he was a cool person, with Tesla and SpaceX and all that. And it's interesting to see where he goes. You know, he's either in Austin or Brownsville, all doing all kinds of work, you know. It's crazy to see where they go. And they're just trying to be, like, the most efficient they can, doing everything possibly as quick as possible.
At the beginning, he was like, can you take this down? It's a security risk. And he was, like, actually asking how it worked. He had no understanding of how it even worked. And then he offered me the five grand. And I asked for 50. And it took a couple of weeks, and he was like, it doesn't feel right to pay to take it down anymore.
So, a lot of times, they're registered to certain companies that can be linked. Or you can see there's, like, pictures that they're actually coming out of that plane. And you can link it to where they've flown, and you're like, oh, that's definitely that person. But with Elon Musk, it's registered to a subsidiary of SpaceX. Mark Zuckerberg was a bit harder, and I just found his real one recently.
