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He had help from the government, specifically Mike Griffin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Gri
by georgeg23 4y ago
He had help from the government, specifically Mike Griffin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
The rocket landing stuff largely borrow from DC-X and the spinoff work at NASA (+Lars Blackmore), all originally Strategic Defense Initiative development.
He used all that money from Mike as collateral for loans to Tesla
- ksidudwbw 4y agoRome wasn't built in a day and were all standing on the shoulders of giants. However you need trailblazers to cut through and push the threshold. Elon is a hacker and disruptor and entrenched interests would like to just keep things they way they were, thereby pumping money into PR firms to talk down disruption and innovation. You're either a paid talk downer or a victim of that.
- underdeserver 4y agoAll that is true and yet nobody else got EVs on the road and reusable rockets in the sky at scale.
- tomp 4y agoYou do realize that everyone had those benefits? In particular dinosaur rocket companies. Yet Elon's the only person/company who put those privileges to good use