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SpaceX Blue Orgin Scaled Composites/Virgin Galactic Armadillo Aerospace Bigelow Aerospace Stratolaunch Systems I think that counts as "several"
by rgbrenner 14y ago
SpaceX
Blue Orgin
Scaled Composites/Virgin Galactic
Armadillo Aerospace
Bigelow Aerospace
Stratolaunch Systems
I think that counts as "several"
- jessriedel 14y agoThanks very much for the info. Bigelow Aerospace and Stratolaunch Systems are excellent examples. Bigelow is especially interesting because from what I've googled he doesn't seem to have any sort of technical background. On the other hand, I don't believe John Carmack is a billionaire, and in any case Armadillo Aerospace has only had a few million invested in it. (Whether or not these guys are billionaires is very important. The question is about rarity, and the pool of people under discussion gets much bigger if we consider people with merely 100 million and who are consequently restricted to more modest goals.) In any case, I think the point may still stand that these people devote much less of their emotional and temporal capital than Musk. I'd love to hear alternative evidence. EDIT (in reply to jlgreco since I can't do it in the normal way): Yep, according to the side bar on Wikipedia his net worth is 2.3 billion as of March.
- jlgreco 14y agoWas Musk actually a billionaire? My impression is that he got a few hundred million from Paypal but never corrects anybody when they overestimate how much he got. He nearly bankrupt himself with SpaceX and Tesla apparently.