{"id":202971,"date":"2025-01-02T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T15:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/how-spacex-became-the-worlds-most-valuable-private-company"},"modified":"2025-01-02T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T15:13:56","slug":"how-spacex-became-the-worlds-most-valuable-private-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/how-spacex-became-the-worlds-most-valuable-private-company","title":{"rendered":"How SpaceX Became the World\u2019s Most Valuable Private Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ct01niIbbRQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How Elon Musk turned failure into $350 billion. Use code NEWSTHINK at <a href=\"http:\/\/nordpass.com\/newsthink\">http:\/\/nordpass.com\/newsthink<\/a> to get a FREE 3-month NordPass Business trial. No credit card required.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend Walter Isaacson\u2019s biography of Elon Musk: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elon-Musk-Walt?tag=lifeboatfound-20\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elon-Musk-Walt?tag=lifeboatfound-20<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Chapters.<br \/> 00:00 SpaceX: The Most Valuable Private Company.<br \/> 0:35 Elon Musk\u2019s Mars Obsession Begins.<br \/> 3:25 Building SpaceX from the Ground Up.<br \/> 4:34 Tragedy and Perseverance.<br \/> 5:18 Building Rockets the SpaceX Way.<br \/> 8:53 Falcon 1 Flight 1<br \/> 10:35 Falcon 1 Flight 2<br \/> 11:17 Falcon 1 Flight 3<br \/> 13:04 Success at Lasts: Falcon 1 Flight 4<br \/> 14:01 The Next Chapter.<br \/> 15:33 Starship: The Ultimate Goal.<br \/> 16:11 The Role of Starlink.<br \/> 16:43 Today\u2019s Sponsor: NordPass.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Newsthink on X <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Newsthink\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Newsthink<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cindypom\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/cindypom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Grab your Newsthink merch here: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsthink.creator-spring.com.\">https:\/\/newsthink.creator-spring.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/how-spacex-became-the-worlds-most-valuable-private-company\">Continue reading \u201cHow SpaceX Became the World\u2019s Most Valuable Private Company\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Elon Musk turned failure into $350 billion. Use code NEWSTHINK at http:\/\/nordpass.com\/newsthink to get a FREE 3-month NordPass Business trial. No credit card required. I highly recommend Walter Isaacson\u2019s biography of Elon Musk: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Elon-Musk-Walt?tag=lifeboatfound-20\u2026 Chapters. 00:00 SpaceX: The Most Valuable Private Company. 0:35 Elon Musk\u2019s Mars Obsession Begins. 3:25 Building SpaceX from the Ground [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2019,418,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-elon-musk","category-internet","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}