Peter Beck’s Rocket Lab Challenges Elon Musk and SpaceX - Bloomberg
A Kiwi named Peter Beck built Rocket Lab into the second coming of SpaceX. An exclusive excerpt from When the Heavens Went on Sale, by the bestselling author of Elon Musk. Ashlee Vance Elon Musk called in the evening. Or at least my evening. It was November 2018, and I was staying in Auckland, New Zealand, for a couple of weeks. My day had been spent hanging out at the main factory of Rocket Lab, a maker of small rockets, with its founder, Peter Beck. I hadn’t talked to Musk much since the publication of my biography of him three years earlier, mostly because he hadn’t appreciated some of the things I’d written and had thought, at one point, about suing me. I got a message from his assistant saying he wanted to talk. I figured he’d start by addressing the multiyear cold shoulder, but he had other ideas. He knew I was in New Zealand and fixated on that. “Aren’t there just like a lot of sheep over there?” he asked. “That’s what I heard. A lot of sheep. And Kim Dotcom.” For those who don’
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