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NYT tech investigations, ex-WSJ, co-author of Happy At Any Cost, author of The Lost Bank.
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SpaceX’s unlikely journey from far-out idea to $2 trillion juggernaut

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By Ryan Mac Verified, Kenneth Chang Verified, Kirsten Grind Verified
| The Japan Times Verified
About 25 years ago, Adeo Ressi, a former college roommate of Elon Musk’s, begged the tech entrepreneur not to start a rocket company. Musk had just reaped millions of dollars from the sale of PayPal, which he helped create, to eBay. He and Ressi were looking at ways to send terrestrial plant life to Mars. They had a $50 million budget, but soon found it was not enough to cover the cost of a rocket. So Musk told his friend that he was going to build his own.
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Elon Musk laid out 602 goals. We counted how many he hit

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By Kirsten Grind Verified, Jack Ewing Verified, Lily Boyce Verified
| The Seattle Times Verified
Elon Musk has laid out hundreds of goals over the years for what he plans to achieve at his businesses. Musk, 54, has said his rocket company, SpaceX, will build a colony of humans on Mars. He has said that Tesla, his electric carmaker, will incorporate fully autonomous driving abilities into all of its cars. And he has promised to show that humanoid robots made by Tesla are dexterous enough to thread a needle. None of these have happened.
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A improvável jornada da SpaceX: de uma ideia fora da caixa a um gigante que vale biliões de dólares

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By Ryan Mac Verified, Kenneth Chang Verified, Kirsten Grind Verified
| Expresso Verified
Musk reconheceu quão improváveis eram as conquistas da SpaceX. Na sede da empresa, a Starbase, no Texas, no dia da OPV, o empresário de 54 anos disse que tinha dado à SpaceX menos de 10% de probabilidade de sucesso. "Disse isto às pessoas: 'Provavelmente vai falhar. Mas devemos tentar'", afirmou. Os sonhos espaciais de Musk eram inicialmente modestos e centravam-se no envio de algumas sementes para Marte numa pequena estufa, através de um projeto que tinha iniciado com Ressi, o Life to Mars.
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