Sentences with phrase «of musk in»

Here's a sampling of Musk in action:

Tesla was founded by friends of Musk in 2003, just one year after Musk started SpaceX.

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Please get of [sic] all large meetings, unless you're certain they are providing value to the whole audience, in which case keep them very short,» Musk wrote.

While it received approval to dig a two - mile test tunnel beneath the headquarters of Musk's space travel company, SpaceX, in Hawthorne, California, the Boring Company will have to convince a number of local governments that its tunnels will be useful in order to conduct enough research and development to make an operational tunnel network a reality.

If Mr. Musk were somehow to increase the value of Tesla to $ 650 billion — a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible and would make Tesla one of the five largest companies in the United States, based on current valuations — his stock award could be worth as much as $ 55 billion (assuming the company does not issue any more shares over the next decade, which is unrealistic).

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The goal is to reach 5,000 per week no later than June 30, but in order to achieve that and allow for a margin of error, Musk is setting the new goal of 6,000 per week by that date.

In 2016, entrepreneur Elon Musk launched the Boring Company with the goal of one day constructing a large urban network of tunnels.

But the elder Rosenthal is more than just a figurehead: He remains an active participant in all facets of Raleigh's business and is a close observer of the technologies and trends that could shape the organization's future, name - checking everything from Instagram to Elon Musk's proposed Hyperloop high - speed transportation system.

When asked how long the construction of a building using the bricks would take, Musk replied that «two people could build the outer walls of a small house in a day or so.»

Entrepreneur Associate Editor Hayden Field even went so far as to try Musk's routine of scheduling his day in five - minute blocks to see whether it would help her stay on - task throughout the day, and you can read about her experiences here.

I double - majored in theater in college, so I was planning to take on this challenge through some method acting — but since Musk has been sleeping on the Tesla factory floor and skipping showers as of late, I decided to spare my co-workers.

Today, a handful of Chinese companies and cities are feverishly courting Tesla for a joint venture, Fortune has learned, and Musk has said his company could begin building cars in China before the end of 2018.

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

Square shares a lot of qualities with Elon Musk's auto company, even though they are in much different industries, Mizuho Securities said.

Musk made the offer in response to a comment made on social media by Mike Cannon - Brookes, the co-founder of Australian software maker Atlassian (team), who said he would be willing to line up funding and political support if Tesla could supply batteries that would solve South Australia's problems.

Last year, Musk bought a home in Los Angeles — his fifth in the fancy neighborhood of Bel Air — for $ 24.25 million.

Downey received a tour of the SpaceX headquarters from Musk in 2007 and picked up on some of what he has described as «accessible eccentricities.»

Musk put his last $ 35 million into Tesla and maintained his stake in the company, despite his lack of cash.

Elon Musk - led SpaceX Corp is raising $ 507 million in a new round of funding, valuing the company at around $ 26 billion, according to a filing seen by Reuters.

In addition, Musk teased the use of the space vehicles as part of a high - speed transportation system around Earth.

In May, Musk said Tesla would more clearly define its plans for China production by the end of this year; a spokesman declined to give further details.

He claimed in his statement that Tesla didn't sterilize Musk's car, «bring with it what may be the largest load of earthly bacteria to ever enter space.»

Musk now owns five mansions in the lavish southern - California neighborhood, worth a total of more than $ 70 million.

In an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for hiIn an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for hiin the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for him.

As Ashlee Vance notes in the biography he wrote about Musk, he can perform complex physics calculations in his head in real time, and he can rapidly absorb vast amounts of information with almost perfect recall.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk previously tweeted that the company would be profitable, and cash - flow positive, in the second half of 2018.

It sounds like something you might read on a cat poster, but another uniting feature of Musk, Tesla, Jobs, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and other innovators is an intense faith in their own ability to overcome obstacles.

As such, he estimates it would take at least 25 years to develop the technology to build and land a ship of the size that Musk is proposing, which would place a manned trip to Mars sometime in the 2040s.

That «I think I can do it» is key — Musk's gut level faith in his ability to achieve any goal, and overcome any obstacle, is one of the most important aspects of his character that has made him a larger - than - life innovator.

Vance's biography of Musk touches on this phase of his career in an interview with Rocket Science Games co-founder Peter Barrett, who explained that Musk went above and beyond his job description.

Each milestone grants Musk a large chunk of Tesla stock, but otherwise he is paid nothing (well, not quite: Tesla actually pays him minimum wage, in accordance with California law).

The company also benefited from a critical mass of charging stations; from its direct - sales model, in a country where buyers feel fleeced by dealerships; and from CEO Elon Musk's celebrity among the technorati.

Along with Y Combinator founder Sam Altman, Musk co-founded OpenAI, a non-profit with $ 1 billion in pledged backing that has the goal of ensuring artificial intelligence is used for good.

Its implementation comes on the heels of a March vow from CEO Elon Musk, in which he said Tesla could build and begin operating the system within 100 days from the signature of a contract — or else it would be free.

That's in stark contrast to some tech leaders, most notably Elon Musk, who have warned about the dangers of the technology.

The Mars analogy is a thinly veiled jab at Elon Musk, who in addition to being obsessed with the prospect of colonizing Mars is also one of the tech world's biggest A.I. fearmongers.

When SpaceX built a yogurt stand in its headquarters, Musk instructed her, «Go to Pinkberry and find me the employee of the month.»

The company produced 2,020 Model 3 vehicles in a week at the end of the quarter, prompting Musk to admit that his reliance on automation had caused production bottlenecks.

There were 20 deals worth nearly $ 1 billion in the space industry in the first quarter, according to investment firm Space Angels — though $ 500 million of that was a single deal: A big investment from Fidelity Investments in Elon Musk's SpaceX to develop its constellation of 4,425 broadband satellites.

Elon Musk is leaving the board of OpenAI, a nonprofit organization he cofounded in 2015, as Tesla continues to focus on artificial intelligence.

Fresh off the launch of Falcon Heavy — which can lift nearly three times as much as the next largest rockets in operation — Musk is touting BFR as on track to begin testing «short trips» by the «first half of next year.»

Talk about the tech titan Elon Musk seems to have set off a flurry of bullish activity in SolarCity options.

«Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world's factories every day,» wrote Musk in a 2014 blog post.

In his autobiography «Finding My Virginity,» he recalls telling Musk, «If you don't have your own ventures one day, you're welcome to come and run one of mine — just brush up on your people skills.»

In 2006, Elon Musk enacted his own version of pointing to the stands, publishing a seemingly impossible 10 - year plan:

In a series of tweets on December 1, Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who founded SpaceX, said he planned to launch a Tesla electric car to Mars orbit in 201In a series of tweets on December 1, Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who founded SpaceX, said he planned to launch a Tesla electric car to Mars orbit in 201in 2018.

Wood believes Tesla, with a current market value of around $ 56 billion, should be in the same league as the big four tech stocks due to Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and SpaceX.

Of course, Apple would also get Musk — a worthy heir to Steve Jobs» «think different» legacy and ideally suited to be Apple's futurist, chief technologist and CEO - in - waiting.

Musk notched a milestone in space on Tuesday by successfully launching the most powerful commercial rocket in the world with a Tesla Roadster sports car on board to demonstrate the kind of payload it can handle.