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Elon Musk on How to Build the Future

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1106 points sama | 1 comments | 15 Sep 16 18:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mattbeckman ◴[15 Sep 16 19:11 UTC] No.12508920[source]▶
Having watched a good number of Elon Musk interviews, I wish more interviewers would ask more direct questions. Asking Elon general questions usually results in fairly similar responses to what you have heard before or read in his biography.
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choxi ◴[15 Sep 16 20:11 UTC] No.12509426[source]▶
I'm curious -- what would you ask him?
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iamcreasy ◴[15 Sep 16 20:40 UTC] No.12509644[source]▶
I have one.

He has always said the chances of SpaceX succeeding was very slim - but at what point(after any particular technical achievement) he realized the this might work out.

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Already__Taken ◴[15 Sep 16 20:57 UTC] No.12509753[source]▶
I'm fairly sure i've heard this answer and it would be after that falcon 1 launch that would have bankrupted the company if it blew up.
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1. iamcreasy ◴[15 Sep 16 21:17 UTC] No.12509890[source]▶
Wasn't Falcon 1 a test bed for Falcon 9? I remember one when Tom Mueller called Elon Musk to say the a full length Merlin burn was completed without melting the engine. That was a big milestone.

I am pretty sure there have multiple of this yahoo moments successively - that made him believe that SpaceX will be able to succeed.