Sentences with phrase «someone of musk»

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.

A close examination of Musk's life — as well as the lives of other significant serial breakthrough innovators — reveals some key strategies he uses, and you can use, to become a breakthrough innovator yourself.

The focus of Musk's new presentation, which updates a 2016 talk he gave at the International Astronautical Congress, was the «Big F — ing Rocket,» or BFR.

The combination of Musk's renown, stories comparing Tesla's acceleration to a Ferrari's, and intrigue over the new technology sent preorders above 5,000 by the end of the year.

Perhaps the single biggest hallmark of Musk's routine?

Of course, they are eco-friendly — an aerial image of Musk's main home shows massive solar panels on one side of the property.

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.

Needless to say, I wasn't a big fan of Musk's quasi-lunch break.

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.

One of Musk's earliest entrepreneurial achievements, PayPal, would be a lifetime dream to most entrepreneurs.

As published in Vanity Fair, a question came from an audience member who asked about «the biggest mistake» of Musk's life.

With the shock value of the fears of Musk and others abating, Arruda thinks dialogue about so - called «bad AI» will start to have a little more subtlety in 2016.

Toni Sacconaghi of Sanford C. Bernstein, who rates the company the equivalent of a hold, bore the brunt of Musk's sharpest words after asking about capital requirements.

The centerpiece of Musk's roughly 42 - minute talk was the «Big F — ing Rocket,» or BFR.

For all of Musk's talk of master plans and Mars trips, it doesn't hide the fact that his companies hit quite a few rough spots this year.

Five hundred bucks is a silly amount to pay for a joke flamethrower that doesn't even throw flames very far, but a perfectly reasonable amount to pay for what feels like a piece of Musk's dream.

His big announcements did little to address the concerns of critics (and some Wall Street analysts), who find many of Musk's proposals too vague.

So if you want to learn faster, heed the advice of Musk and be strategic.

In the context of Musk's new compensation deal, the conference call with analysts to discuss the results should be surreal.

The entirety of Musk's September talk on SpaceX's plans to get the Mars colonization ball rolling in the next decade (transcribed by an energetic Redditor) was recently published online.

Part of Musk's worry stems from social destabilization and job loss.

While the concept of the semantic tree may only be familiar to those with a computer science background (here's a pretty good basic explainer from Quora, if you're interested), the gist of Musk's advice should be clear to anyone: don't wade into the weeds of a subject before you have a conceptual framework — the main ideas and debates at the heart of the discipline — mastered.

Reports of Musk's presentation to the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, say he claimed the rocket would be able to take people from Los Angeles to New York in 25 minutes, and from New York to Paris in half an hour.

While someone of Musk's stature and wealth has the luxury of not having to worry about the ill effects of would - be copycats on his business, the garden - variety entrepreneur struggling to bring a brilliant idea to market isn't so lucky.

Richard Branson — himself something of a Musk fanboy — blogged that he was «very impressed» by the decision, adding, «I hope many other entrepreneurs follow [Musk's] spirit of ingenuity and initiative.»

The 23 - story - tall jumbo rocket carried a Tesla Inc Roadster from the assembly line of Musks electric car company as a mock payload

That's a vision that plays to the strengths of Musk — a disrupter by nature, an upstart, and an energy outsider — and he has been betting on it for a while.

One of Musk's side projects, The Boring Company, is exploring more efficient ways of digging tunnels beneath Los Angeles, and the entrepreneur recently said he's now looking to build the hyperloop himself.

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

As the brainchild of Musk, who first announced the idea in 2012, it's a concept straight out of science fiction and has been deemed the «fifth mode of transportation.»

Some Model 3 customers are cancelling their pre-orders in protest of Musk's supposed friendliness to Trump.

By Thursday afternoon, the Facebook pages for several of Musk's brands were no longer online.

Tesla's partnership with SolarCity is part of Musk's grand scheme of things, nicknamed «Master Plan, Part Deux.»

You almost can't blame him; as Liam notes in a follow - up, Tesla calls typically are useless celebrations of Musk's genius.

The trailer featured the Falcon Heavy from its construction at SpaceX to its historic launch last Feb. 6 at Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center, as well as images of Musk's Tesla Roadster and Starman.

Model 3 deliveries have fallen short of Musk's lofty goals since the company started building it in July.

The supercomputer deems most of Musk's ventures to be calculated risks, which are technically cautious and a vital part of company growth.

Now, no one believes that,» Ben Kallo, an analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co. with a buy rating on Tesla shares, said of Musk on Bloomberg Television.

«If I were a shareholder, I wouldn't find that funny,» said one communications expert of Musk's prank tweet about a bankruptcy for Tesla.

During the course of Musk's Twitter session this weekend, the serial entrepreneur confirmed that 4,000 Boring Co. flamethrowers have already been sold.

The Tesla and Facebook CEOs have had an escalating feud, which took a new twist on Friday when both of Musk's companies took down their Facebook pages.

But that's the magic of Musk.

The owner of 12 Tesla shares wrote this would minimize conflicts and brought up the acquisition of SolarCity Corp., a deal that was criticized in part because of Musk's links to the money - losing panel installer.

They had come to hear a recruiting rep share the gospel of Musk, who, a number of them told me afterward, is a «visionary» and an «innovator.»

Howard McCurdy, a space policy expert at American University, said of Musk: «If he's not in the lead, he's well positioned for the finish.»

Of course, the vision of Musk is much bigger than creating a launch business.

To these people, salvation lies at the feet of Musk.

Critics claim that, in merely seeking to accommodate those cars, it perpetuates, rather than challenges, the system of car dependence responsible for Los Angeles» congested roads — an apparent manifestation of Musk's own self - interest.

I rarely agree with Jim Cramer, but we are both in support of Musk's comments during Tesla's earnings call yesterday.

Tesla has fallen far short of Musk's promises to ramp up Model 3 production, which the company has said is key to turning a profit.