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IIRC Musk said that Tesla was supposed to be the cash crop that eventually funds SpaceX.
by lifeformed 9y ago
IIRC Musk said that Tesla was supposed to be the cash crop that eventually funds SpaceX.
- otalp 9y agoIt's far more likely to be the opposite, at least for the next 4-5 years.
- agildehaus 9y agoCan you point to the source? I've been a SpaceX fan for a long time and never heard him say that. Starlink, SpaceX's satellite constellation, is the cash crop.
- marvin 9y agoDon’t remember the source, but I’ve heard Musk say this between the lines in an interview. I.e. something along the lines of «you need a lot of money to get humanity to Mars» on questions of Tesla’s long-term profitability.
- taneq 9y agoThe more cash crops you have, the merrier!
- shasheene 9y ago> Can you point to the source? I've been a SpaceX fan for a long time and never heard him say that. Source is from the 2016 International Astronautical Congress talk in Mexico [1]: > And I should say also that the main reason I'm personally accumulating assets is in order to fund this. So I really don't have any other motivation for personally accumulating assets, except to be able to make the biggest contribution I can to making life multiplanetary [1] http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/making-humans-a-multiplanetary-species-mexico-city-2016-09-27# http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/making-humans-a-multiplan...