How SpaceX Became the World's Most Valuable Private Company

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
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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