Tag: people
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SpaceX’s plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes | Gwynne Shotwell
What’s up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk’s pioneering aerospace company and is now its president. In conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, she discusses SpaceX’s race to put people into orbit and the organization’s next big project, the BFR (ask her what it stands for). The new giant…
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Yelp Reviews of Tesla’s Residential Solar Business Are Not Pretty
Amid the hype and misinformation swirling around Tesla's electric vehicle drama, it's easy to forget that Tesla is also the owner of SolarCity, once the largest residential solar installer in the world. Elon Musk acquired/rescued his cousins' troubled firm, SolarCity, about two years ago for $2.6 billion in stock and the assumption of approximately $3 billion in…