Tag: SpaceX
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“A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle.” Elon Musk Elon Musk is not your typical CEO. He doesn’t have a corner office. There’s no executive dining room. In fact, shortly after taking over Twitter, Elon slept on a couch in the company library. A typical meal: cereal out…
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“As the situation got more desperate in the fall of 2008, Musk pleaded for money from friends and family to meet Tesla’s payroll.” Elon Musk, by Walter Isaacson In 2008, Tesla was in the depths of production hell. And with the world on the verge of another Great Depression, a…
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“We have reason to believe Elon is retarded.” That was Elon Musk’s elementary school principal. Young Elon stared out the window and ignored his teachers, leading them to assume he could not learn. Perhaps Elon found their lessons irrelevant. Or maybe he was tormented by what was going on at…
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Only about half the world has internet access. Even rural America lags behind in broadband penetration. But what if everyone on earth had incredibly fast internet for $1 a month? A fascinating company called Akash Systems just might pull that off. It is delivering internet 100 times more cheaply than…
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+ Broadband, Elon Musk, Internet, Inventions, Materials Science, Satellites, Space, SpaceX, Startup, Tech+
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At 1310 East Grand Avenue in El Segundo, just south of Los Angeles, sits a large white building. In 2002, it housed only about a dozen people. There wasn’t even a receptionist. Deep in this building was a small group of cubicles, staffed by about a dozen men. This tiny…
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Tremendous 