11-30-2021, 10:59 PM
Speedy wrote:
As the world’s richest private citizen, he should be able to keep things moving without going bankrupt.
It's not in a bank account... it's in the stocks of SpaceX and Tesla. He can't write a check against them...
He is correct that if there is a down-turn such that capital is not forthcoming from "the usual sources", then they're in big trouble... Starship may end up the single most ambitious engineering project of the 21st century.