What Elon Musk thinks about innovation

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Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008, and later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X. Posts as @elonmusk, which is where almost everything he says publicly now appears.

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1. 21 Oct 2012

   Our readingBig aerospace firms have an aversion to risk that keeps them using legacy components even when better technology is available.

   Their wordsOne is the incredible aversion to risk within big aerospace firms. Even if better technology is available, they're still using legacy components, often ones that were developed in the 1960s.

   ↗Elon Musk's Mission to Mars (WIRED interview with Chris Anderson)wired.com 3rd of 5 in this piece