It was the end of November when Steve Davis, president of Elon Musk’s $5.6 billion tunneling startup Boring Company, got on X for a livestream discussion with a former news broadcaster to chat about the tunnel project Boring Company is trying to begin in Nashville.
The 90-minute discussion that followed was extraordinary—not for anything specific that Davis said, but simply for the fact that he was saying something. The Boring Co., like Musk’s other companies, prides itself on shunning the mainstream media. It ignores questions from journalists. It doesn’t even have a public relations department. Davis, a close ally and longtime “fixer” for Musk, has a reputation for avoiding speaking engagements, and rarely surfaces in public.
