A new biography of Elon Musk authored by Ashlee Vance has just come out and it's summarized in a May 24th Bloomberg article called "Go Fever: The Irrational, Inhuman, Interstellar Odyssey of Elon Musk."
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So SpaceX was born. He didn't know much about space, but he was *optimistic*. He looked for young overachiever-engineers "with a high tolerance for risk." They must have been inspired by his big goals, because some of those employees work 100 hours per week.
Enormous amounts of work, stress, courage, money and time have been invested into SpaceX and it very nearly failed more than once. It was risky.
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