‘NIGHTMARE YEAR’: Elon Musk reveals when he reached 'lowest of the low' in business, life.
SpaceX did have an extremely rough roll-out in the early years of the company. However, it has since launched numerous cargo payloads and astronauts to the International Space Station for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , including 19 rocket launches this year alone.
"My marriage had fallen apart, so I'm getting divorced," Musk continued as he recalled his worst year. "The Tesla financing round was falling apart, and we're nowhere near production. And we have the Great Recession.""Good times," he joked. "Extremely brutal to say the least – the lowest of the lows."Elon Musk said in the interview that bankruptcy was"knocking at the door" from 2008 to 2012.
Musk said later in the interview that bankruptcy was "knocking at the door" from 2008 to 2012. He said he invested $40 million of the money he made from the sale of PayPal into his companies, splitting it between Tesla and SpaceX."Fortunately the fourth launch of SpaceX reached orbit," he said. "If that fourth launch had failed, SpaceX would be dead, for sure.
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