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Tom Mueller, a former SpaceX engineer, explains why Elon Musk never allowed negativity to take root inside the company As a founding propulsion engineer, Mueller described how Musk shaped SpaceX’s early culture around intense technical focus and constant urgency. Teams were expected to stay aligned, move quickly, and prioritize...

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Before Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos had space programs, there was this guy who was building rockets in his backyard. Saratoga, 1980s. Robert Truax was a rocket engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in both military rocketry and the early private spaceflight movement. He played a significant role in U.S. Navy missile programs and after retiring from the Navy, he founded his own company, Truax Engineering. By doing things differently and avoiding what he called ‘government waste,’ he believed space travel had become too expensive and bureaucratic under government control, and that simpler, reusable rockets could be built more efficiently by individuals or private companies. He remained a vocal advocate for commercial spaceflight throughout the 1980s and 1990s, years before companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin made such ideas mainstream. In the 1980s, he launched Project Private Enterprise, an ambitious attempt to send a human into space using a privately developed rocket. The centerpiece of this effort was the X-3 Volksrocket, a low-cost, reusable vehicle designed to democratize space access. Although his private rockets never reached orbit, Robert Truax is remembered as a visionary and a determined ‘garage engineer’ who challenged the status quo of space exploration. His efforts helped lay the philosophical foundation for today’s commercial space industry, paving the way for innovators like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, whose companies have turned private spaceflight into a reality. Truax remains an important, if often overlooked, figure in the history of rocketry. RIP Robert Truax (September 3, 1917 – September 17, 2010). source footage 🎥: MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour | NBC | Video West

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This is WILD! The most important story coming out of the SpaceX IPO this morning is not the $1.77 trillion valuation but it is about Juan Hernandez (Save this). Juan is a welder who got a phone call from a friend about a job at a company he had never heard of. He said yes anyway, showed up, worked there for ten years, rose from the factory floor to supervisor, and held on to 6,500 shares the entire time. When CBS asked him this morning how much he stands to make at opening, he said approximately $880,000. Tom Mueller, Musk's very first SpaceX employee, tells a version of the same story. He met Musk through an amateur rocket club, was convinced to do something exciting, and says it was one of the best decisions he ever made. In those early days, he says, the team simply believed they were going to change the world and then went ahead and did it. Juan and Tom are not alone. SpaceX has approximately 13,000 employees who hold equity and analysts estimate today's IPO will create somewhere between 600 and 1,000 instant millionaires across the workforce from engineers and software developers to machinists, welders, and operations staff. The engineers and executives at the top of the stack are looking at life changing numbers of a different order entirely. Senior vice presidents and long tenured rocket engineers with large equity grants are expected to walk away with $10 million to $50 million or more depending on their vesting history. Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX's President and COO who has been building this company alongside Musk for over two decades, is expected to become a billionaire on her equity stake alone. All of that wealth from Juan's $880,000 to Musk's trillion came from the same source. A group of people who believed that if nobody built a truly reusable rocket, humanity would never leave Earth, and decided that was an unacceptable outcome. Thank you, Elon Musk for building a company where a welder who didn't know your name in 2016 is worth nearly a million dollars this morning.

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Elon Musk: Whoever you are, SpaceX wants to be able to take you to the moon, to Mars, and beyond. (Full Elon Musk remarks at the SpaceX Nasdaq debut.) “It is certainly hard to believe that a little company that started in a warehouse in El Segundo is now going public with the largest IPO ever. If people had told me this was going to happen, I was like, man, you must be smoking some really good crack because I think this company is going to fail. I gave SpaceX less than a 10% chance of succeeding at all, to be clear. In fact I told people we're probably going to fail, but we should give it a try because if we don't, if there's not a new company that enters space, we will never be a truly space faring civilization. While the other aerospace companies build good rockets and everything, they were simply not pursuing the technology that's necessary to make life multiplanetary, to make Star Trek and the exciting science fiction futures that we've read about real. And that's what SpaceX is all about, is to take the fiction out of science fiction and create an exciting, inspiring future for everyone. We want to be able to take anyone who wants to go to the moon, to Mars or in the solar system and maybe beyond the solar system at some point. We want to be able to take you there, not just a few astronauts. I mean you literally you, whoever you are watching this, SpaceX wants to be able to take you to the moon, take you to Mars and ultimately beyond. I'm confident at this point that with the incredible team that we have here at SpaceX that we will do that for you. I always think about this. There are always problems on Earth. There are always things that we wish to be better, that we want to solve here on Earth, and we should solve them. But there also have to be things that get you excited about the future. A future that makes you glad to wake up in the morning because you can't wait to see what happens next. And that's the future that SpaceX wants to bring to you.” SpaceX Rings the Nasdaq Stock Market Opening Bell, June 12, 2026

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I met the absolutely brilliant Robert Truax, at Princeton’s Space Studies Institute first symposium on space colonization and he tolerated a stalling long hair geek with questions that would not stop. Robert was a rocket engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in both military rocketry and the early private spaceflight movement. He played a significant role in U.S. Navy missile programs and after retiring from the Navy, he founded his own company, Truax Engineering. He remained a vocal advocate for commercial spaceflight throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Sometimes he was the lone voice of private rocketry. By doing things differently and avoiding what he called 'government waste,' he believed space travel had become too expensive and bureaucratic under government control, and that simpler, reusable rockets could be built more efficiently by individuals or private companies. In the 1980s, he launched Project Private Enterprise, an ambitious attempt to send a human into space using a privately developed rocket. The centerpiece of this effort was the X-3 Volksrocket, a low-cost, reusable vehicle designed to democratize space access. Although his private rockets never reached orbit, Robert Truax is remembered as a visionary and a determined 'garage engineer' who challenged the status quo of space exploration. His efforts helped lay the philosophical foundation for today's commercial space industry, paving the way for innovators like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, whose companies have turned private spaceflight into a reality. Truax remains an important-if often overlooked-figure in the history of rocketry. Let’s remember him. I want to visit the Traux space colony some day. I’ll make some food and we will hang out.

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Billionaire Rick Caruso can’t believe what Elon Musk has created with SpaceX. He’s toured the facility and “It’s beyond exceptional” He says Elon Musk has put together a company that’s “best in class” and is so important to our country “I just left touring SpaceX down in El Segundo, and I know we all see the SpaceX rockets flying from time to time, and some of us use Starlink at our homes or whatnot. I gotta tell you, the technology that's going on down there, the only thing I can say describe it, because I don't have the subject matter expertise to describe what's going on inside those buildings, inside of SpaceX, is beyond exceptional. It's exceptionalism. And what really hit me as I was walking through it is how proud I am that we have an American company that is dominating the leadership in space. What they're doing in terms of their satellites, in terms of their technology, of the payloads they're bringing, how they are looking forward in doing data centers in space to reduce the impact on energy and heat, it's amazing to watch. There's about 20,000 people that work for SpaceX. About 8,000 are here in Southern California, down in El Segundo. And it also hits me that this is not a company that we want to lose in the state of California, or anywhere near losing people in the vicinity of Los Angeles. Elon has put together a company that is best in class. There is no close second to what Elon Musk and his team are doing down there — and to own that leadership position in the world is something really important for our country. So congratulations to Elon. I really appreciated the tour of going through and seeing what was happening. And congratulations to everybody that's working down there that are putting together the future for the United States and the world and how we communicate, how we move forward” Elon Musk’s SpaceX was only founded in 2002 and they are years ahead of all competitors. They are 10 years ahead of competitors with reusable rockets and are completing more launches than the rest of the world combined There is quite literally not even a remotely close second competitor

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Marc Andreessen went on Chris Williamson's podcast and broke down exactly how Elon Musk runs multiple companies at once No other CEO on Earth does this: 1. Every week, Musk shows up at each of his companies, identifies the single biggest problem that company is having that week, and fixes it. Then he does that for 52 weeks in a row. At the end of the year, each company has solved its 52 biggest problems. Meanwhile, most large companies are still having the planning meeting for the pre-planning meeting for the board presentation with the compliance review and the legal review attached. 2. This is not a new operating method. It is actually how the great industrialists of the late 1800s and early 1900s ran their companies. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Watson, who built IBM. Total devotion from the leader to fully and deeply understand what the company does, be in the trenches, talk directly to the people doing the work, and be the lead problem solver in the organization. Andreessen says he is not aware of another current CEO who operates this way. 3. The framework Musk uses is the bottleneck. In any manufacturing chain, there is always one thing holding everything up. Sometimes it is raw materials at the start. Sometimes it is warehousing at the end. Sometimes it is in the middle. The job is to find it and remove it. Musk has universalized this concept across every company he runs. In any given week, there is one main bottleneck. He micromanages the solution to that one thing and delegates almost everything else. 4. Musk delegates almost everything. Andreessen is clear about this. He is not involved in most of what his companies are doing. He is involved in the one thing that is the biggest problem right now. Once that is fixed, he moves to the next biggest problem. Everything else by definition, is running better than the bottleneck, so it does not need him. 5. When Musk identifies the bottleneck, he goes directly to the engineer who actually understands it. not the VP of engineering, not the director, not the manager. The individual contributor who has the actual technical knowledge. He sits in the room with that person and fixes the problem alongside them. He does not ask for a report to be reviewed in three weeks. he shows up at the keyboard or on the manufacturing line and works through it overnight if necessary. 6. This is why technical people who work for Musk say it was the best experience of their lives. Andreessen's framing: if you are stuck on a problem you cannot solve, Elon Musk is going to show up in his Gulfstream, sit with you in front of the keyboard, and help you figure it out. For an engineer who genuinely cares about the work, that is an almost incomprehensible level of support from the CEO of the company. 7. Business school teaches the opposite of this: management as a generic skill applicable to any industry. Soup company or a rocket company, the management principles are the same. process, balance sheet, meeting schedules, compliance, executive motivation, interpersonal conflict resolution. Andreessen says those skills are useful in many contexts. They just give you nothing; you need to do what Musk does. And Musk pushes as far as he can away from all of that so he can spend all of his time doing the things only he can do.

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Elon Musk says acquiring Twitter and electing Trump were the same bet... In two years, Musk had spent $44 billion buying Twitter and millions backing one candidate. Critics called it pure ego. Or politics. Or the end of his reputation. He spent another billion ignoring them. Musk had a different framing. "Those actions were good for civilization." Twitter. The election. America's runway. He named the framework: **the civilization hedge**. Musk, whose mission was extending consciousness off Earth, viewed Earth as the precondition. A SpaceX that built Mars colonies and a Tesla that scaled Optimus to billions of units required America to stay coherent for at least the next thirty years — a runway that depended on which laws got written, which agencies got built, and which speech got allowed. "America needs to be strong enough to last long enough to extend life to other planets." A platform with the speech he wanted. An administration with the policies he needed. A civilization with the runway to leave Earth. After Musk made the bets, his goal was unchanged — extending consciousness still required Earth functional. Musk, on the bet underneath both moves: "And to get AI and robotics to the point where we can ensure that the future is good." What's the bet you're making that nobody around you understands? P.S. I made a full playbook breaking down the timeless decision-making mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. So if you want to stop overthinking, control chaos, and navigate any decision with the clarity... Comment "models" and follow GeniusThinking so I can DM you a copy. If you're new here, follow GeniusThinking for content the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. — Elon Musk ( Elon Musk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( Dwarkesh Patel ) podcast

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