Here’s how Elon Musk started SpaceX
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Summary
When Elon Musk started SpaceX, the first thing he did was get all the different rocket scientists together at his house and would meet once a month to talk about solving this one problem: how could we get a plant to Mars, planted and thriving on the planet Mars?
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When Elon Musk started SpaceX, you know what the first thing he did? He got all the different
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rocket scientists together at his house and would meet once a month to talk about solving this one
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problem. How could we get a plant to Mars, planted and thriving on the planet Mars? A lot of people
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don't realize that it started because he was curious about space and he figured the fastest
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way for him to learn is to get around other people that were in different disciplines in that with a
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core focus, which is get a plant on Mars and thriving, and then have these conversations
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and listen to people that are just as capable, just as accomplished, and see how they argued
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with each other to figure out what was what Elon often calls first principles.
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As long as you're not breaking the laws of physics, let's get to the root of the potential