Re:SpaceX Launches 19th Rocket in a Year, a Company Record
by gpm on Monday December 03, 2018 @04:04PM
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Does SpaceX still need Elon - compared to what - for what?
Does SpaceX still need Elon to control ownership of the company as opposed to selling to "average" investors in order to colonize mars? Almost certainly.
Does SpaceX still need Elon as the CEO as opposed to the "average" other CEO they could hire, to profitably launch satellites into space? Almost certainly not.
At least we reach theoretically answerable questions with this sort of construction, but I don't think we have enough information to answer any but the most obvious versions such as those above.
SpaceX's biggest moonshots, if they keep succeeding and Elon keeps leading, are yet to come.
Does SpaceX still need Elon to control ownership of the company as opposed to selling to "average" investors in order to colonize mars? Almost certainly.
Does SpaceX still need Elon as the CEO as opposed to the "average" other CEO they could hire, to profitably launch satellites into space? Almost certainly not.
At least we reach theoretically answerable questions with this sort of construction, but I don't think we have enough information to answer any but the most obvious versions such as those above.
SpaceX's biggest moonshots, if they keep succeeding and Elon keeps leading, are yet to come.