The Engineer

Joining the Thrillionaires 317 of the financing for Christopher Columbus voyage came from private investors, while the other par ...

Joining the Thrillionaires 318 One of the advisers to Planetary Resources is the film director James Cameron. When Elon founded ...

Joining the Thrillionaires 319 can today hear the same reasoning regarding a manned mission to Mars. “Since 1989, when a study e ...

Joining the Thrillionaires 320 Projectabout an expedition to Mars. His idea was to build ten spaceships in space in a similar wa ...

Joining the Thrillionaires 321 When people have begun living on Mars, SpaceX will build a large cruiser that will travel between ...

Joining the Thrillionaires 322 from Earth, will create a powerful incentive for developing technology that will enable us to tra ...

Idea Overload Now this is not the end. It is only the end of the beginning. “I think that it is possible to solve any of the pro ...

Idea Overload 324 in the shower.”^32 Elon has found some ideas when he took a shower, some ideas late at night when he couldn’t ...

Idea Overload 325 planes by ten percent,” Elon said. “That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff superso ...

Idea Overload 326 of infrastructure in the US. “If it can actually make a difference, I would gladly contribute funds and ideas. ...

Idea Overload 327 The Hyperloop could go from city center to city center [San Francisco to Los Angeles] in not much more than a ...

Idea Overload 328 money and time on purchasing new land.^401 The optimal environment inside of the tube would have been vacuum, ...

Idea Overload 329 to San Francisco. The same trip with a car would have taken 5 hours and 30 minutes, 2 hours and 40 minutes wit ...

Idea Overload 330 fossil fuels. Both the electric aircraft and the Hyperloop are so innovative that no one is trying to design s ...

Idea Overload 331 means that you figure out what are the fundamental truths, and can you build up a conclusion from that? Reason ...

Idea Overload 332 with ideas.”^354 To nurture creativity in their company, Google came up with the “20 percent time,” where empl ...

Idea Overload 333 total of all Tesla cars ever produced since 2006 [to 2012], from the initial announcement of the electric Road ...

Idea Overload 334 training them in our graduate schools,” Elon said. “One of the toughest things I’ve found is to recruit top-no ...

End of the Beginning The French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte met with his advisers who recommended him a new general to lead a new ...

End of the Beginning 336 incredible. I just show up at the board meetings to hear the good news. It’s really great.”^351 The thi ...