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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
26 May 2020 Acquired SpaceX
“Elon puts a total of $100 million into SpaceX. I think he said at some point that that was enough for three or four.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 26 May 2020
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- SpaceX
Transcript context
…I know. It's crazy. Elon puts a total of $100 million into SpaceX. I think he said at some point that that was enough for three or four. I'm quoting the [...] here which was great, which is three or four launches. That's cool because he's deep into this. He said they're going to do this Hell or High Water. He's put $100 million in, but he made close to $200 million from PayPal. He's good for it, right? No, he's not because this is 2008, and two things had just happened. This is the summer of 2008. (1) In the summer of 2008, Elon took over as CEO of Tesla. He's pumped almost all of the rest of his money into Tesla.…
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