SpaceX's mission is to spread humanity to the planets. Bezo's mission is to offer orbital fun rides to cashed up tourists. Fisker failed due to its major inve

SpaceX's mission is to spread humanity to the planets. Bezo's mission is to offer orbital fun rides to cashed up tourists. Fisker failed due to its major investor (DOE) halting future financing, and then being hit with the loss of a large number of vehicles in Hurrican Katrina. Up until then they were following a similar startup arc (with the same sorts of problems) as Tesla had in their first few years. [0] With PayPal, Musk was insistent that the venture proceed as X.com (despite brand testing showing that people were likely to associate it with porn), but was overruled. He was also opposed to the sale to eBay, which actually catapulted PayPal in terms of growth, and embedded it as a "must have" for e-commerce. [1] [2] [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/fisker-automotive-failure/315946/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/fisker-... [1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-elon-musk-fired-from-paypal/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-elon-musk-fired-from-p... [2] https://nypost.com/2018/07/24/elon-musk-made-his-first-millions-in-the-paypal-mafia/ https://nypost.com/2018/07/24/elon-musk-made-his-first-milli...