Elon Musk Unlikely to Take SpaceX Public: Biographer
Elon Musk’s claim SpaceX’s fundamental mission is to get humanity to Mars isn’t just rhetoric, Musk biographer Walter Isaacson said Tuesday at an Economic Club of Washington event. “I think he truly believes that mission -- he’s mission driven,” Isaacson…
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said. Once Musk has a mission, he backfills around it, such as using SpaceX to also make money via internet connectivity from low earth orbit, said Isaacson, professor of American History and Values at Tulane University, and formerly CNN chairman and Aspen Institute CEO. “That’s just a way to fund the mission,” he said. Asked about when SpaceX might go public, Isaacson said the SpaceX CEO “hates taking things public. I think he has zero desire to take SpaceX public.”