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Jorgenson: Tesla and SpaceX are becoming the biggest companies on Earth
“To do both of these, like, generation-defining, singular companies that were on nobody's radar, that are now, I think, on the way to being the biggest companies on Earth.”
Jorgenson: Musk solved a months-long Starship bottleneck in an overnight surge
“They'd spent months trying to, like, weld a dome for Starship that fit over the, this, like stainless steel cone that was gonna go over the top of the rocket, and they hadn't gotten it done for months, and he just showed up at the site, was like, we're gonna h…”
Jorgenson: Musk escalates status updates to hourly 24/7 emails during bottlenecks
“The status updates escalate with how serious the bottleneck is. So weekly cadence for, you know, maybe a normal bottleneck. It'll go to daily, like a daily, 24 hour sync on whatever the bottleneck is to run the algorithm on it. For one week, one guy, I don't k…”
Jorgenson: Musk stacked Starship months early to generate public momentum
“He famously stacked Starship, like, months before it was even close to launch, and it wasn't because it needed to be done, it wasn't because it was a bottleneck, but he said now people started sharing photos of this absolutely behemoth rocket, and it started t…”
Jorgenson: SpaceX and Tesla alumni will tackle bigger problems than past founders
“You know, that, that SpaceX mafia or the Tesla mafia are going to be like a really incredible set of companies are going to tackle much bigger problems than we've seen startups tackle in the past.”
Jorgenson: Founders Fund will reap a massive windfall from the SpaceX IPO
“SpaceX is one of Founders Fund's biggest positions over multiple funds, and they're gonna have an unbelievable windfall with this IPO.”
Jorgenson: Raw materials are 30% of an iPhone's cost, 1% for rockets
“For reference, like your iPhone, like the raw materials of your iPhone is like 30% or a car is like 30%. So that's like a good ratio for a complex manufactured product. But aerospace, when he looked into rockets, the rocket as a whole, he did an X was like a t…”
Jorgenson: Musk asks job candidates about mistakes made solving problems
“He also says in hiring, he's asking for people like, what problem did you solve and what mistakes did you make along the way to solving it? What walls did you have to bounce off?”
Jorgenson: Musk fired his scheduler to maintain dynamic calendar control
“And Elon Musk, I don't know if this is still true, but at some point he fired his schedule or not because you know, they weren't great, but because he's like, I want control over my time to pick the priority at all times.”
Jorgenson: Tesla won Daimler by electrifying a Smart car in 30 hours
“He got the Daimler deal in part because at Tesla, the Tesla the executives from Daimler were coming to visit Tesla. And he's like, we have a slideshow. We have a presentation like that is insufficient evidence. So In, like, 30 hours, you grabbed engineers, and…”
Jorgenson: SpaceX originally started as a philanthropic Mars greenhouse mission
“People don't realize SpaceX was not originally a company. It was a philanthropic mission. He had Almost two hundred million dollars from their sale of PayPal. And his first plan was to just shoot a rocket to Mars. Have a little greenhouse on the surface of Mar…”
Jorgenson: 90% of Tesla repairs can be performed in customer driveways
“Could we do this repair without a lift? Could we do this repair without a huge toolkit? And it turns out that 90% of the repairs could be done by a technician with just like a portable toolkit at the customer's home.”