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How Henry Singleton Worked
- ▶ 11:54 David Senra SpaceX lately. 3 times in the scene
How to Make Ads That Sell: Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins
- ▶ 11:04 David Senra I have been reading a lot about SpaceX lately. 3 times in the scene
How Bob Dylan Studied His Way to Greatness
- ▶ 8:12 David Senra I have been reading a lot about SpaceX lately. 4 times in the scene
How Claude Shannon Invented The Future
- ▶ 8:14 David Senra I have been reading a lot about SpaceX lately. 4 times in the scene
How Raymond Plank Made a Fortune in Big Oil's Scraps
- ▶ 6:33 David Senra SpaceX lately. 3 times in the scene
How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 9:09 David Senra SpaceX lately. 3 times in the scene
The Merchant Bankers
- ▶ 7:43 David Senra I have been reading a lot about SpaceX lately. 4 times in the scene
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 7:43 David Senra I have been reading a lot about SpaceX lately. 4 times in the scene
The Practical Genius of Honda
- ▶ 7:00 David Senra I have been reading a lot about SpaceX lately. 3 times in the scene
Phil Knight: Founder of Nike
- ▶ 27:38 David Senra I think you've been noticing that I'm making a lot of episodes on Elon and SpaceX and something that comes up in all these different sources that I'm reading.
How Arnold Schwarzenegger Won
- ▶ 5:32 David Senra And the reason this came to mind is because I've been reading a lot about SpaceX. 3 times in the scene
The Relentless Missionary Creating AGI: Demis Hassabis
- ▶ 35:21 David Senra Demis had visited Elon at SpaceX. 3 times in the scene
How Elon Thinks
- ▶ 7:25 David Senra A few weeks ago, I just did this episode called how SpaceX works.
- ▶ 8:44 David Senra I have been reading a lot about SpaceX lately. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:37 David Senra First principles thinking built SpaceX.
- ▶ 13:04 David Senra At SpaceX, we often consider what's possible within the absurd. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:05 David Senra He says, one reason SpaceX could move so quickly is that I made both the engineering decisions and the spending decisions together in one brain.
- ▶ 29:01 David Senra Every decision we made in early SpaceX designs had been with simplicity in mind.
- ▶ 32:08 David Senra At SpaceX, I would tell the team, we're on a deletion rampage.
- ▶ 34:52 David Senra In early SpaceX, I told the team,
- ▶ 39:12 David Senra Goes back to after he sold X.com, which turned into PayPal and makes the most important decision of his life, which is to start SpaceX.
- ▶ 45:59 David Senra And you know, in present day, SpaceX is one of the most valuable private companies on the planet.
- ▶ 49:56 David Senra And then he has two sentences here that I think is related about to the work that he did at SpaceX for sure, and also Tesla, but specifically SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
How SpaceX Works
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra A few years ago, I started working on a book called space X foundation, a historical account of space X's first decade told through firsthand sources, firsthand sources, like Elon's company updates, launch dispatches, internal memos. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 David Senra This was really good timing for NASA to become SpaceX's biggest customer. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:49 David Senra What SpaceX has done more than anything is minimize the cost of getting things to space. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:05 David Senra So SpaceX became its own supplier. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:56 David Senra One of the main themes in the history of SpaceX is constantly attacking and questioning your costs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:54 David Senra SpaceX bet the opposite. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:43 David Senra So he's going to describe the standard answer, and I love how he talks about SpaceX literally inverted this. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:13 David Senra In a 2021 Starbase interview, Elon explained the goal with each Starship prototype. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:31 David Senra This is where SpaceX's hardware rich approach becomes essential. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:37 David Senra SpaceX didn't just hire good engineers. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:20 David Senra Start with Gwynne Shotwell, currently the president of SpaceX and part of the core founding team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:25 David Senra Each SpaceX site has a single dominating objective to simplify prioritization. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:38 David Senra It emerged because SpaceX was already there, launching so frequently and cheaply that a 9000 satellite constellation became feasible. 3 times in the scene