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The part about the rockets is off. SpaceX is based in Hawthorne, CA, which is in the Los Angeles area. LA has a high density of aerospace engineers, which is on
by amirmansour 9y ago
The part about the rockets is off. SpaceX is based in Hawthorne, CA, which is in the Los Angeles area. LA has a high density of aerospace engineers, which is one of the reasons Musk based SpaceX there.
Source: Worked there.
- doctorcroc 9y agoThe spirit of the article was to praise the fruits of SV culture, in which Elon Musk is a revered leader. But yeah, if you want to be pedantic, yes space x is in Southern california.
- amirmansour 9y agoSure, though mentioning the rockets wasn't even a good example of his point, since every launch gets plenty of media coverage.
- yardie 9y agoIf you include companies who aren't in SV in an article about SV. What's the point? I guess any startup that is SV funded is assumed to be a SV startup?
- SimbaOnSteroids 9y agoMaybe it's a stretch but anything Elon could be seen as an off shoot of the successes of SV. He started and sold Zip2 and PayPal there. He used the money from those ventures to start SpaceX and invest in Tesla. Also iirc much of the capital for these ventures comes from SV players.
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- sidlls 9y agoIt's also misleading because there are a lot of government resources in this "private" innovation effort. That's generally true of the fawning over SpaceX, but in this context it's especially silly.