Re: Good Luck, Elon and Falcon

"Rüdiger Klaehn" <rudi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In a pre-launch press conference, elon mentioned that
> he would not sell the company to a defense
> contractor because they would not run the company
> in the right way. But he said that a large minority
> investment would be welcome.
>
> He might change his mind giving a sufficiently large
> offer though. If someone were to offer him several
> billions, he would probably just sell the company and
> start a new space transport company with his most
> important people.

Presumably if/when SpaceX became successful Elon would eventually sell
it off to someone with the appropriate competence, (not the usual
suspects) and start on the next project. His talent is in low cost small
team highly focussed R&D - start ups, this is where he can achieve the
most.

This is also the approach that has worked for him historically.

Pete.


.

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