Elon Musk: Inventing the Future with the Los Angeles World Affairs Council

thank you doing this I know today was a busy day at the office yeah I guess every day is a busy day in the office when you run into the companies some are poor in tents and others this is on the more intense side and let's let's talk about Tesla and if one were to believe everything one reads in the press haha which I don't is a former journalist the recent fires in the Tesla cars sound like the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 right the humanity and reality is somewhat different tell us tell us what really happened there yeah so I think first of all that it's fair for a new technology to receive more scrutiny than its then older technologies because it should be held to a higher standard but there's some reasonable limit to to what that increased standard should be and I mean since since the Model S went into production about a year and a half ago they've been about a quarter-million gasoline car fires in the u.s. about 400 deaths 1,200 serious injuries our three fires which course no injury received more headline news and the other quarter million combined that seems like an unreasonable ratio and I believe all three owners of those cars have crashed wanted to get another one yes right exactly that's like don't take my word for it like that they know that was likes it well how soon can they get a loaner car until the insurance thing gets figured out and yes sir it was to give him one right away but yeah the nessa acid tests like do this the guy that was they experience the fire does he want to have that same corrugate you feel safe in it yeah and stock price down again today ten percent do you care about that I mean it's it kind of sucks running a public company I mean the stock goes through these huge gyrations and yeah but for like seemingly arbitrary reasons and then I'm asked to explain why I changed I'm like I have no idea it should be pointed out it's up 300% on the year yeah right I mean on balance that's still a little good but I mean when the stock price is way higher and people after what I think of the valuation I said well I think it's probably more than we have right to deserve we'll try to get there in the long term and I think we will and probably exceed it but I I would not try to justify that a company with little over two billion dollars of revenue should be worth twenty two billion dollars in market cap that does seem pretty high to me you know it's socially yeah and it's fair to say you wouldn't be there without government subsidy well I think it would have taken longer so the I mean there's a slight misperception about the history of Tesla which is that that the government funding was pivotal it was an accelerant but it was not pivotal but the really pivotal the focal point was an investment from Daimler in 2009 there were early 2009 when there was I basically spent all the money I had it and we had one company that was willing to invest or one entity that was willing to invest period and that was timeline and if they hadn't come in with that investment we would definitely be dead fortunately bankrupt finish yeah gone and fortunately they did we've done a number of vehicle programs at Daimler was the Mercedes b-class which is not currently produced in the US but it's very popular in Europe other parts of the world we will be coming to the US and that will have a Tesla battery pack and powertrain it will be the largest electric vehicle programming down the history so that so it got a great relationship they've they've been a great great supporter and how about self-drive version of Tesla why do you think that's an important technology although the difficulty increases exponentially to get to fully self-driving to cover all the corner cases so I think we can get to maybe 90% of miles driven being order pilot as we call it this is using a little sort of aircraft analogy but I can get there pretty soon maybe in a few years but then covering that last 10% is really difficult and so getting from ninety percent to 99 1999 point nine and then ultimately to be truly self dropping like you can fall asleep in the car I was your destination which would be really great some people do already by the way yeah exactly they die yeah that that's good that just it just I think you probably need like six nines reliability like the standard would be it's actually way higher than it then the safety of us of a person probably by a factor of 10 or 100 in order for people to be comfortable or otherwise will well like the spire thing you know just like a car is basically the safest car you could possibly drive if you care about fires and that that's not the impression what would have reading the headlines we would absolutely officer impression and so for self or self driving order pilot hopefully the media doesn't do the same thing same like maybe a disproportionate response but but I do think that it should be held to a standard that's maybe like 10 times better than a person and I know Google is working this to 10 years more or less yeah I mean I think the right path is probably a little different from what Google is pursuing and when Larry Page is a friend of mine I've known him since before he got venture funding for Google I think it's a really brilliant guy but I mean it's not Google is isn't focusing on on on autonomous cars where is it it's gonna be a pretty significant focus for Tesla and and from our standpoint it only matters if the autopilot capability is does not result in it you know it's a substantial cost increase to the car and the way the Google sensor suite is set up it's like they were like 60 grand yeah I mean that's like a lot I want to ask you about risk taking and because there's a theory that entrepreneurs who hit it out of the park one time make that billion dollar plus company work right they are reluctant to do it again not because they're afraid of losing their money but because they feel if they were is just to fail a second time around then in their own minds maybe they would think well the first time it was just luck it wasn't really my own skill or my own sense of how to run a business but not only did you well you rose PayPal came up to 1.5 billion you got out of that only did you invest again me invest again twice not only that would you chose probably two of the most risky capital intensive industries to go with rocket technology which is basically a bomb right direct it up yeah and then cars which are you know we know what's happening to Troy yeah and so what is it that that motivates their to do that to go through the visible again to times again yeah I'm not sure was the right decision but so far so good yeah it's much less fun than it been it may appear but I mean the case of what I thought of I would do was start and run SpaceX then and and then create a electric car company with a few other people it worked but just like apply 20 percent of my time and work on the product design you limit like my main thing isn't is engineering of site so that yeah that was an illusion so yeah and then but I don't really have any choice but to apply a ton of time to Tesla or the company would be you know definitely dead so but the other way to do it you could have stayed in Silicon Valley started another few internet companies made a billion dollars and then you could have bought Chrysler and probably bought a NASA - and you wouldn't have to start from scratch that's easy yeah all right well I don't really want to know what is not so sort of owning a car company it's but rather to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport and it seemed like it would be difficult let's talk about SpaceX SpaceX you have said you started with the specific intention of getting to Mars yeah well the Arjun and SpaceX was actually not my interest in space my additional thought in space was that it wasn't possible to create a company and I mistakenly thought that the reason that we're not send people to Mars was because we'd lost the world to explore some more like maybe that and I thought well maybe that needs to be reignited and so I can't was idea to do a basically a philanthropic mission to Mars with what was a hard percent probability of losing all the money in order to reignite interest in that goal but after after a while I realized that's that was actually those mistake given the particular United States is a nation of explorers came here from other parts of the world I think more than any other country is a distillation of the human spirit of exploration there's no lack of world the but people need to believe that there's a way that that in a way that's feasible and and that it's not going back up the country and they're living standard will be weren't being materially affected you know and then I think they're super super keen on on that that goal now as you look out whatever we're talking 10 15 20 years to get to Mars it's not just rocket technology and you've talked about reusable rocket technology it's also how you shield people from radiation it's a 10 12 month trip what you do when they arrive you know how are they gonna live here are you is that something that you want to work on to or will you partner with other companies how do you how do you see that playing out over the next decade well I actually think the the technology required to live on Mars is not not particularly difficult but but but getting there is is really difficult I mean it's like hundreds of millions of miles yeah exactly it's a place that kind of looks like Arizona you know you're like a cold version of Arizona with not quite as much water so I mean least that that's that's my best might my guess is I think if we can if we can get there but technology required to live there well is is not a not a really big challenge I mean Morris has some advantages it's got a it's quite sort of earth-like in some ways it's got a rotational period of twenty four and a half hours by far the closest of any other planet the atmosphere is carbon dioxide no it's not it's a low pressure but if you were to have a transparent dome you you all you need is a pump and so and some fertilizer and you could grow plants on laws the plants would convert the co2 to oxygen the other thing that's been big in the news reason is the Hyperloop which you have sketched out you estimate from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes yeah you could push that a little bit but it well I'd be happy if I could get from Santa Monica to downtown I know I don't know you have your personal issues with the four or five the four or five is like this is like the most brutal construction project I've ever personally witnessed obviously mind-boggling but I also know that so you sketch this out but I know that your your your plans for the Hyperloop have been put in some pretty sophisticated simulation technology yeah and it looks like it actually might work I'm alright yeah and we did run simulations at SpaceX and Tesla so we you know we yeah we thought it would work but you know I don't actually don't think it's particularly like I mean I think I think it's like the engineering of it that that it would work is is actually pretty pretty obvious obviously but I mean it's so I think the larger issues are political you know getting the the political support to do something like that and and then you know making sure the economics pan out and yeah I hope someone does it because I think it would be cool I mean every break this to have something like that yeah it's just like it doesn't seem like our mass transportation is getting any better it seems to be kind of getting worse so that's that's not a good future you said something or you hope somebody else would do it I'm curious what makes you really so unique it's not only your ability to dream big but to execute lots of utopian thinkers out there but they kind of execute yeah but there are some other people who can do good things and I'm wondering what seems to motivate you you see things that frustrate you or you think are not as good as you like and then you try and fix them you've worked on on solar power you've worked on electric cars and Flandre space travel and I'm wondering what are the things about America and about the world for that matter would you like to see fixed either by a company you might do yourself or by someone a smart entrepreneur what what else out there is feasible you know we all want to give the world poverty and get rid of childhood diseases but but what what problems out there can feasibly fix say in our lifetime well I mean I think first of all the world's actually pretty great right now I mean arguably better than any point in history and just this is sometimes lost if you read the newspapers they're they're like a magnification of all the world's problems it's like I mean newspaper seems to be attempting to answer the question what was the worst thing that happened on earth today yeah it's yeah and and it's like okay I mean and I think there's there is kind of a evolutionary reason for that because it makes more sense to like you want to prioritize danger over a reward or because it's it if you get eaten by the lion game over but you know if you if you forget where you left some snack that's that's okay I mean you yeah so so there's a if it's not quite the same in terms of the rest of us for balance but we didn't evolve with newspapers and and and global media's so like our brains sort of having a fear response to a lot a bunch of dangers that are extremely unlikely to ever affect us oh yeah you have I believe about 3,000 people a Tesla we've 6,000 yes 6,000 I'm not informed and SpaceX's is 3,500 so that's a massive agglomeration of engineering talent yeah yeah if I could take the metaphor of a ship how much time do you have to go down into the engine room roll up your sleeves get your hands dirty and fix stuff as an engineer and how much time do you spend on the steering and looking at the at the distant horizon well not a lot on that last point I it's I mean there's there's a constant flurry of executional challenges and so I try to triage my time according to what would be best for the companies and and still you know have sometimes see my kids because the message of them growing up so you know it can vary from big issues two things that seem small that actually could have a really big impact so I mean it's it's all the way from design aesthetics to the details of say the vehicle functionality or in the case of the rocket the you know behavior next propulsion system and airframe I mean the rocket is kind of a head that has milk more of a concentrated pucker factor because of you got it's you got these launches and and leaks for the car you can do a recall or like do a software update that's not gonna happen with the rocket so it's like passing grade is our percent which is induces anxiety you know how do you handle a launch anxiety when you're actually waiting that countdown we saw on here well beep these ones actually I mean there there's this I have quite a lot of anxiety so I think it must be something that we did wrong and there's anything I could have done to prevent this hypothetical thing from from bad thing from occurring I mean the last roughly 10 launches have have worked but but the three launches we started off with did not so the by far the worst emotional stress was the fourth launch of felt the Hawaiian because the first three launches did not make it to all of it they got they got to sort of space on launches 2 & 3 but they didn't get to full overall velocity and you know when I started out I figured I would have enough money for three three launches yeah so is we squeaked by on the fourth fourth one we sent out a link today I don't know if how many of you saw it but it's a view using a your hands as 3d molding sort of tools for stuff you're doing on a computer screen and it's a rocket engine that you're able to manipulate with your hands and and I know that you have told Jon Favreau who produced or a directed Iron Man that that was the inspiration because we see Tony Stark to English and and I know also you know I've read a bit you Isaac Asimov's Foundation series you've also said he's been inspiration so I'm wondering as well actually when you're on the cutting edge of technology today in the fields that you're in do you feel you've almost got one foot in science fiction is that did you at do you have to be that far ahead well well you have to imagine an outcome in order to head in that direction and science fiction explores a lot of different ideas so it can be helpful as a source of inspiration and any like books TV shows movies and they're all I think source of inspiration most of the movies and TV shows that space are totally wrong but but they still have interesting ideas like the Star Trek communicator was an inspiration for the cell phone yeah right in fact the weird thing is like like the like the phones we have in our pocket fastly exceed what was on Star Trek we're gonna go to ask some more students and some questions but first one more and I saw I'm a big James Bond fan you just bought the Lotus Esprit that they used in the Spy Who Loved Me which goes underwater yeah and you're gonna make that work so it's it's definitely a backburner project okay my question is when do we get to see a functioning version of the Millennium Falcon that's a tricky one because it's not actually the right shape it's a note to George Lucas I mean the the Falcon 9 Falcon rocket was named after the Millennium Falcon even though it looks nothing like it and yeah I mean yeah that's not the shape you'd want for my spaceship really okay so we can swing the camera to our student tables we get a couple of questions from there then I'll go to the written questions and the rest the audience buta Cole good evening sir my name's Ariel hi miss I'm from Vaughn next century referring to Merlin 9 does basics have a working prototype and when will it be ready to launch well rolling is the name of our alright so in the Falcon 9 is name of the rocket and we we've done several launches of Falcon 9 and then an important milestone having a few months ago which was the the launch of the next generation of Falcon line which is designed to be able to return and land at the launch pad and came we came close on the initial mission but didn't quite get there we need to make a few few corrections but I think we've got a good chance of getting there next year ok hi I'm Kennedy green from harvard-westlake so I've seen you speak at a TED talk and I remember you spoke pretty emphatically about the success of your innovations and how you kind of take a physics approach where you take the idea and boil it down to its basics and from there start to build up so can you talk about an example where you use that process an important thing in innovation or trying to create new things is to try really hard to do that which may sound incredibly obvious but that that's what I find is most often what people don't do they actually didn't didn't try super hard to come up something new and it is helpful to have cross-pollination of industries I mean it's been quite difficult to run SpaceX and Tesla but there has been good ideas you know focus since I got both in my mind space this this good idea is going back to forth but for example on the car with respect to the car the Model S is the only aluminum body and chassis car made in North America and very few cars are aluminum in the aerospace industry it's that that's the default so it seemed like like obviously the right move in order to minimize the the non battery pack mass of the car so in order to offset you know fairly heavy battery pack we had to make the rest of the car light but but still achieve a five-star safety rating I don't think it would have been possible to do that if we had used steel which is the traditional method and and what's helped SpaceX has been that the car industry is really good at making complicated objects at a low cost I mean it's actually quite incredible that like one can buy a decent car for twenty thousand dollars I mean all the stuff that's in that car is I mean it's nutty how much stuff is in a car so that that's basics I hired a bunch of people from the auto industry to run manufacturing which just worked out reasonably well let's take two more student questions please and they will hello I'm Natalie Watson from Marlborough school and we have a sort of two-part question that builds so why do you think Tesla succeeded whereas other companies car companies have failed in their methods of electric cars and is the location in Silicon Valley and important part of this yeah I think I think being in Silicon Valley is pretty important because what's really critical with electric cars is electrical engineering software and electronics and Silicon Valley has the best concentration of talent in those areas in the world and yeah sorry what was the first other question oh why do we succeed oh yeah alright I'm sorry what was your question oh the first part okay why do you think Tesla succeeded whereas other car companies failed in their methods of electors of electric cars like why do you think Tesla is the leader in this idea well but there haven't been that many car companies startups remember there was sort of Fisker and coda and then a few smaller ones and and then the rest has sort of been some some fairly small scale efforts by the big companies III think if we say what was the first we say Fisker and Tesla does maybe the bit most direct comparison Tesla is a hardcore engineering company and Fisker is kind of it was based on kind of on styling you know it's like styling is good important but it's that's not the reason we don't have electric cars so it's a you know bed for styling we would have electric cars that's not the reason so in the case of this car they made a car that a lot of people think looked really good but didn't work properly so then people don't want to buy the car that's like a pretty reasonable thing yeah yeah if you think alike like what what what's the point of a company existing but the point is that it's a group of people that have gathered together to create a product if the product is good company should exist and if it is not good the company should not exist that seems like fundamental to nature companies so the I mean clearly then one should focus on making the absolute best product you can otherwise you reduce the probability of success but a lot of companies focus on things that aren't really to do with the product as though a company has any basis for existing apart from doing useful things that's kind of strange good evening sir my name is Eric pelayo from bond next century and regarding the Mars the proposed Mars expedition what how exactly do you plan on making it cost-efficient sure well now that is that is indeed a tricky problem I mean I feel reasonably possible that that success is at least one of the possible outcomes like this is a I mean this is pretty important when you're trying to do something it's like well it can't can that be one of the outcomes I wasn't actually confident about that until a few years ago now in most thing we will get there but III I'm confident that it is at least possible and like the key to that is having a fully reusable mass transportation system so that all your all you are placing between flights maybe apart from minor maintenance is the propellant I mean this is this like the reusability is so fundamental to having a major change in spaceflight it's difficult to overstate its importance but I mean thank you with analogy to other modes of transport you can imagine that if airplanes could only be used once they would very few people would fly because it would be super crazy expensive I guess like a 747 costs a quarter billion dollars you need two of them just for a roundtrip however people are not paying half a million dollars to fly it back and forth to London and that's because you can use the 747 like 20,000 times and for a rocket you know a Falcon 9 rocket costs about 60 million dollars to build and so if it can be used once obviously that's a 60 million dollar capital cost but if you can be used a thousand times then it's only a sixty thousand dollar capital cost and I mean that is you know and it's also it is it is the fundamental difference so you have to have freely use well then you have to make sure that the propellant used is as low-cost as possible so our next-generation rockets will be using methane as a fuel which is met methane is the is the lowest cost sauce fuel on the planet by a good margin so at the inside I think if your propeller costs too low and the system is fully reusable then I think it I think it should be possible to Egypt to move to Mars for less than half a million dollars which i think is an important threshold because if people can sell all this stuff on earth and move to Mars well and there's enough people who who can do that combined with those who actually want to do that then that then that that's that's the fun well thing needed to have a a growing colony on Mars you kind of like the way that the u.s. was it's like the early English colonies in America when it became affordable for people to sell their stuff in England and moved to America it grew really fast in the absence of that it's it were just required humongous amounts of government support and I think probably wouldn't be wouldn't result in a self-sustaining civilization so the economics of it are extremely fundamental Thanks okay I'm gonna go through some questions that we got from the floor and and the first one I want to ask is what is what do you think is the next battery technology after lithium ion I guess living your mine has sort of reached its ceiling more less or I think this that I think there are substantial improvements that will occur with lithium ion batteries without any no miracles required the the thing with lists in my own technology in terms of the cost of energy density is that the sort of average improvement per year is about 8% which isn't that noticeable on a one year basis but but your compound interest is a very powerful force and so after say four or five years the cost is cut in half it's assuming there's a forcing function for a strong forcing function for improvement which I think electric cars provide so I feel pretty good about achieving a substantial reduction across the battery pack I say in kind of a three or four year time horizon still way behind yeah sure double nothing nothing I mean anything that operates at worst low speed is Moore's law you know semiconductors just have this incredible advantage that as you made them tinier they got way more efficient for something with like that's that's a lot large like a macro structure like a battery pack you just don't have or really almost anything essentially I say in fact anything except microprocessors in memory that does not improve at that pace yeah another question here it's about medical technology is there a medical application or technology that you you would like to change or see somebody else change work on well medical technology well I think the thing that would so most profoundly affect people would be to be able to recode genetics which is obviously a dodgy situation but that that's the thing it like we're we were close to saturation on on lifespan I mean it's sort of pretty much leveled out and and so even if you solve say any one particular disease you maybe slightly improve life expectancy but but not a lot you know it's like you kind of have a genetic programming any given species for a certain lifespan like the like you cannot make a fruit fly I live for ten years no matter what you do I mean healthy living vitamins or anything this was like yeah so for 20 years that would be that would be a truly astounding achievement but yeah so I mean it's a really tricky subject you know it's fraught with with all sorts of moral issues but that's the thing that would most affect people's lives but it's I mean it certainly is double-edged swords here's another question from a Tesla owner why is there no coat hook in the back yeah he says PRC says you can design a rocket but you forgot the coat hooks well I didn't actually forget it I just I intentionally didn't like it so weren't there like the aesthetics of it really bothered me but and I know obviously some people disagree with that decision but I think I think we might have a retroactive fix for that if somebody has the panoramic roof which is to basically have a hook on the bow section and in the middle of the roof and then like your code could hang down in the second or a passenger footwell which is actually slightly better than having a code hook that's stuck on the side of the car so I think we'll probably do that yeah wherever that question came from hold on it's not the first time I've heard that question is there a future in hydrogen fueled engines yeah exhales invention one Atlantica which is in the beginning of the Model S production I also didn't have reading lights in the second row I was like well people I thought people were really going towards your ebooks in Kindle and iPad and I can't think it's like so they have like their own light they don't need like an actual light in the back and then those driving with one of my kids and and he was trying to read his book daddy yeah he said this is a stupid car in the world all right we'll put the light back in hydrogen fuel engines they have a future I you know I don't think so hydrogen is a very difficult energy storage mechanism I mean essentially it's the means of storing energy chemically but there a way that if you want to do that they're way better materials than hydrogen like I'd go with methane or propane way before hydrogen in fact the way that they make the hydrogen is by taking methane and chopping the carbon atom wolf so like well that seems like a waste yeah well they'll do electrolysis which is even worse so it's a really energy intensive it's either like either taking either still mining hydrocarbons on a large scale or you're applying massive amounts electricity to separate h2o and then sometimes we'll say over the hydrogen is the most common elements in the universe yes but not on earth which is the important consideration you know it's it's yeah it's one of those things that sort of this always sounds like it's like it's well she's like it's the future and it always will be like the Hindenburg issue yeah I mean in in the case the Hindenburg my sending is that the main issue was the paint on the outer surface as opposed to hydron itself but but hydrogen does combust extremely well I hydrogen has a has a there's a good argument argument for hydrogen as a fuel in the alpha stage of a rocket say saturn v in the second of those stages had hydrogen and particularly for the up stage of a rocket where you're not volumetrically constrained or other you your mass constrained rather than volumetrically constrained hydrogen is good if you care about mass and terrible if you care about volume and and it's also horrible from a handling standpoint this is a really tiny molecule and it goes all over the place you look at Apple after Steve Jobs and Microsoft after Bill Gates struggle to keep up the momentum I wonder if you thought about the future of your companies Tesla and SpaceX and I know you've talked about giving away a lot of your money but then I know you've had some other thoughts about that and you looked at Ford and wondering if you want to give I mean what's where were you out on that succession issue now well I I don't know if like I'm not sure about the whole sort of family dynasty from a well standpoint thing I mean that seems to you often work out worse than if if the kid wasn't given a huge sum of money I mean listen unless they've actually demonstrated a high ability to be a good steward of capital then it you know it's not gonna work out I think to give them a huge sum of money now that said I mean I'm wavering a little bit on that because if you look at the example of Ford and GM like GM went bankrupt Ford did not and Ford had the Ford family as a stabilizing influence so that there could be some merit to having a family stabilizing influence but maybe not necessarily complete control we're gonna end with two questions on the Hyperloop which is clearly a arouse a lot of emotion in Los Angeles and one is from UCLA Anderson I know that gene block is here who runs UCLA and but they want to know how do you envision the Hyperloop as an open source project to be run in traditional Enterprise fashion which would make profits that make sense but and I think it's be quite difficult for force me to execute the Hyperloop and the thing that will really matter is how good is that company at executing as opposed to the basic sort of ideas of the system so what I don't think it company has to worry too much about the creating value if they're really good at execution and like really the best example of open source is Linux and there's lots of companies that are quite valuable even though Linux is open source - that is from somebody else who wants to know when will the hyper ooh Hyperloop potentially be ready and can we get to Australia huh that would be I would not recommend it for we're going to Australia because Australia is really far so that were queer that we're something like the Hyperloop would work best is for distances that are maybe five about 500 miles but probably not more than a thousand and that's because if you're compared to say an alternative being supersonic air transport in order to go really fast with the plane you have to climb pretty pretty high because the atmosphere just looks like molasses when you're very fast so you in for distances certainly under five hundred miles you spend all your time just ascending and descending and you don't really get an opportunity to spend time at cruise so something like the Hyperloop can complete really well in that arena because you instantly but will break almost instantly enter a low-pressure environment and so the tube contains a low-pressure environment that's you know like the cruising altitude of well it's like very high altitude atmosphere basically and and so you don't have to spend any time ascending or descending so there's no way for it well extremely difficult for a plane to be faster than high for distances under five miles because that S&T same thing however once you get to long distances then the cost of the tube starts to become a big factor and and and so then I'd say it's probably the right movies to go to super star transpose because then you're spending a large percentage of your time at cruise and and you could probably get there fast to within a supersonic aircraft interest so no kangaroos in the Hyperloop and I know you have an insane schedule I know that you have to go from here back to your office tonight yeah I just wound up being at my best this has been it's like working noise last night so we are deeply grateful you came and gave us some time thank you so much thank you you

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Keywords: Elon Musk, Tesla Motors (Organization), SpaceX (Business Operation), PayPal (Organization), Los Angeles (City/Town/Village)

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Length: 46min 41sec (2801 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 04 2013

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"refering to the Merlin 9, does SpaceX have a working prototype?" Cringe

[u/keelar]

I was surprised to see how long this has been up for. I usually search around on Youtube for new talks with Elon every few days. No idea how this one got past me. Thanks for sharing!

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I try to listen to every time Elon speaks. Hoping something rubs off.