Then, SpaceX started doing things commercial companies aren’t supposed to know how to do. Sending a spacecraft out to space is hard—but bringing it back might be even harder. You know how if you jump into the ocean off of a dock, nothing bad happens (except the water being probably...
Billionaire Elon Musk, a major beneficiary of government contracts to hisSpaceX company and of tax breaks to his Teslacar company, plowed atleast $119 millioninto Trump’s campaign. Trump has already announced thatMusk will help leadan important new government entity to promote ...
And no charitable donor is going to put tens of billions of dollars toward funding a massive, 30+ year project that has no guarantee to work. A: You pay for it by making your research and development operation double as a profitable space delivery service. To test your innovative new ...
And by keeping a great deal of its cars’ engineering in-house, as SpaceX does with its rockets, Tesla may stand to be much more profitable than its current competitors. Jeffrey Osborne of Cowen, an investment bank, calculates that 80% of the value of a Tesla is created in its manufactu...
Not in my opinion – I think it is an astronomic sum of money for a barely profitable business that has been loss-making for most of its life in the public markets. But the value of a company is what someone is prepared to pay for it – and Mr Musk, who...
McDonald’s vision statement is ‘to move with velocity to drive profitable growth and become an even better McDonald's serving more customers delicious food each day around the world’ Problem: Grabbing a bite to eat was always an event in itself. No one could walk into a restaurant and ...
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SpaceX internal launch price, but it is probably lower than $62 million per launch, given that launch at that price is profitable without reusing the first stage. Given the messianic nature of the exodus aspirations of Musk, would-be Mars settlers can reasonably hope that the SpaceX price ...
Here’s the thing, most people set goals using lag measures and all they do is focus on the lag. This isn’t going to work. For instance, if your goal is to build a profitable blog, you may set a goal using a lag measure such as “to collect 1,000 email leads from your blog”...