Chris Williamson
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Yeah.
Yeah.
I think it's difficult now to understand how stupid and insane it seemed when he started Tesla.
And the same thing with the rocket.
There were no space startups.
Space economy was not a thing.
And NASA had been on this slow decline for 50 years.
We were paying Russia to take our astronauts up to the space station.
These were by no means, not just not obvious, but like
very consensus, insane things to do.
I mean, SpaceX, I think most people don't realize, started as like a pure philanthropy project.
He was looking at the NASA website saying, when are we going to go to Mars?
We went to the moon 50 years ago.
Why haven't we been back?
And when are we going to go to Mars?
Surely there's a plan.
And there was no plan.
And he was coming off of his first exit with PayPal.
So he had $200 million or something in the bank.
And he's like, I'll just spend $100 million.