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It helps when NASA is laying off everyone you need to hire, and they have no other choice of a place to work (unless they like blowing up poor kids in poor coun
by RNCTX 6y ago
It helps when NASA is laying off everyone you need to hire, and they have no other choice of a place to work (unless they like blowing up poor kids in poor countries for Raytheon).
It should also be noted that he was not a founder at Tesla, even. He bought his way in.
- Klathmon 6y ago>It helps when NASA is laying off everyone you need to hire, and they have no other choice of a place to work Actually Musk has said in the past that they had a LOT of trouble hiring early on. They had goals of reusable rockets right around the start of the company, and most people in the industry didn't take them seriously. Nobody wanted to work for the laughing stock of a company that dreamed of doing something that most thought was impossible (affordably reusing rocket stages).
- RNCTX 6y agoPeople who pay astroturfers by the dozens might not be trustworthy sources of information.
- valuearb 6y agoHe founded Tesla through force of will. They had a concept but no funding and no drivetrain. Elon got them funded and hooked them up with an engineer he had been funding to build a drivetrain. Their original roadster was going to cost $200,000+ just to build, Elon pushed them out of the way and saved the company.