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ELON MUSK: THE CHRISTMAS EVE THAT NEARLY ENDED TESLA AND SPACEX
In December 2008 Elon Musk had watched three rockets fail, Tesla had cash until Christmas, and the money from PayPal was almost gone. This episode follows the whole run up: the game he sold at twelve, two days at Stanford, Zip2, being fired from PayPal on his honeymoon, the flight home from Moscow that started SpaceX, the six and a half million dollars that made him Tesla's chairman, the fourth rocket that finally reached orbit, and the two rescues that arrived on the twenty third and twenty fourth of December. It also covers the Model S, production hell, landing rockets, Starlink, the funding secured tweet, Twitter, xAI, his months inside the American government, and where he stands today. Founder Stories tells the story of one founder per episode, told plainly and in order.
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