How SpaceX Became the World's Most Valuable Private Company

Newsthink January 1, 2025
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How Elon Musk turned failure into $350 billion. Use code NEWSTHINK at http://nordpass.com/newsthink to get a FREE 3-month NordPass Business trial. No credit card required I highly recommend Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk: https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1982181281 Chapters 00:00 SpaceX: The Most Valuable Private Company 0:35 Elon Musk’s Mars Obsession Begins 3:25 Building SpaceX from the Ground Up 4:34 Tragedy and Perseverance 5:18 Building Rockets the SpaceX Way 8:53 Falcon 1 Flight 1 10:35 Falcon 1 Flight 2 11:17 Falcon 1 Flight 3 13:04 Success at Lasts: Falcon 1 Flight 4 14:01 The Next Chapter 15:33 Starship: The Ultimate Goal 16:11 The Role of Starlink 16:43 Today’s Sponsor: NordPass Follow Newsthink on X https://x.com/Newsthink Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Sources: Robert Zubrin image: Taken by Flickr user Eagle Shooter.[1], CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons James Cameron image (edited by Newsthink): Angela George, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Elon Musk photo at The Mars Society: By FlyingSinger - https://www.flickr.com/photos/flyingsinger/206206248, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10699842 Reid Hoffman image: Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Jim Cantrell image (edited by Newsthink): Scott Whitfield, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons All Elon Musk images in 2008 at SpaceX headquarters: OnInnovation / CC by ND-2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0 Original photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/oninnovation/4334997452/in/album-72157623364617582/ Elon Musk in SpaceX factory October 2008: Steve Jurvetson CC BY 2.0 via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/4670874048/in/album-72157608597030651/ Entrance plaza of the Lockheed Skunk Works, Palmdale, California: Alan Radecki, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ via Wikimedia Commons Mojave Air and Space Port: By Tedder - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=134323379 Dinner at Outbeak Steakhouse: Peter Hellberg from Stockholm, Sweden, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Falcon 9 second stage fuel tank: Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Tesla factory in Fremont, California: Maurizio Pesce from Milan, Italia, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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