ELON CLIPS(@ElonClipsX):Elon Musk: I didn't build SpaceX and Tesla because I thought they were easy ways to make money. “Anyone who starts a car company thinking it's the easy way to make money is a fool. There are only two car companies that have not gone bankrupt in the history of the United States, and that's Ford and Tesla. And Tesla came within inches of going bankrupt multiple times, as did SpaceX. Who starts a rocket company thinking it's going to be successful? For both of those companies, I thought I had less than a 10% chance of success, and I thought it was overwhelmingly likely that I would lose the money that I made from PayPal.” Interview with The Babylon Bee, December 2021

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Elon Musk: I didn't build SpaceX and Tesla because I thought they were easy ways to make money. “Anyone who starts a car company thinking it's the easy way to make money is a fool. There are only two car companies that have not gone bankrupt in the history of the United States, and that's Ford and Tesla. And Tesla came within inches of going bankrupt multiple times, as did SpaceX. Who starts a rocket company thinking it's going to be successful? For both of those companies, I thought I had less than a 10% chance of success, and I thought it was overwhelmingly likely that I would lose the money that I made from PayPal.” Interview with The Babylon Bee, December 2021