Elon Dreams and Bitter Lessons – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

SpaceX’s triumph is downstream of a dream and getting the cost structure necessary to make it happen; Elon Musk is trying the same approach for Tesla self-driving cars

Elon Dreams and Bitter Lessons – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Skip to content Elon Dreams and Bitter Lessons Tuesday, October 15, 2024 Listen to Podcast Watch on YouTube Listen to this post : Log in to listen In the days after SpaceX’s awe-inspiring Starship launch-and-catch — watch the first eight minutes of this video if you haven’t yet — there was another older video floating around on X , this time of Richard Bowles, a former executive at Arianespace, the European rocket company. The event was the Singapore Satellite Industry Forum , and the year was 2013: This morning, Sp

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