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The EV industry as well as the spacetech industry would have none of the momentum they currently have if there was no messianic figure like Musk leading the pac
by spaceman_2020 4y ago
The EV industry as well as the spacetech industry would have none of the momentum they currently have if there was no messianic figure like Musk leading the pack.
Industries need charismatic evangelists to attract capital. Musk made investing in serious hardware ventures cool.
Now all the billionaires have their own space companies just to compete with Musk.
All in, a net positive. Otherwise Bezos billions might have gone into yet another superyacht.
If you get an abrasive personality with it, that’s a decent bargain.
- MichaelCollins 4y ago> Now all the billionaires have their own space companies just to compete with Musk. Do they? The only other billionaire-owned space company that comes to mind is Blue Origin, but they were founded years before SpaceX. (Which incidentally, seems to debunk the common argument that any billionaire funding a space program would have success similar to SpaceX/Musk. If success with such funding were inevitable, Blue Origin would have gotten to orbit years ago but in reality they still haven't.)