In this week’s episode of Elon, Inc., we discuss the challenges standing between Elon Musk and his ambition to launch a third party—including his own behavior.

"I think it'll help us," Trump said about Elon Musk's "America Party." He added that "third parties have always been good for me."

Arguably the lineage of know-it-all tech entrepreneurs trying to disrupt politics starts with Ross Perot, the swaggering Texas IT entrepreneur who founded the Reform Party in 1996. He twice ran for president in the 1990s on a populist, tech-savvy platform that included measures to facilitate democratic participation via the then-nascent internet.