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Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It's 2005 and SpaceX is about to find itself exiled to a tropical island, but this is no vacation. It's in a race against time to get the Falcon 1 rocket into orbit before Musk's millions runs out. But as the failures mount, Musk stares ruin in the face.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to business wars at free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.0	It's May 2005, and in El Segundo, California, Gwynne Shotwell strides through SpaceX's open-plan
0:23.5	headquarters, where the large rolled up map of the world in her hand.
0:28.4	Shotwell is the 41-year-old business development chief of SpaceX, and Elon Musk's just given
0:33.8	her a high priority mission.
0:37.0	She marches towards a group of engineers who are prepping the giant machine that welds
0:41.4	fuel tanks for the company's Falcon 1 rocket.
0:45.6	One of the group, a tall, square-jawed man, looks up as Shotwell approaches.
0:51.3	He's Hans Kuhnigsman, the German launch engineer of the Falcon 1 rocket.
0:56.7	Shotwell waves him over.
0:58.6	Hans, I need you in the conference room.
1:01.8	Gennad, wait.
1:03.0	No.
1:04.0	Elon wants an answer within the hour.
1:07.1	Kuhnigsman nods and walks with Shotwell towards the conference room.
1:11.5	What's going on, Gwynne?
1:13.3	Vandenberg.
1:14.3	Kuhnigsman's size.
1:16.7	Vandenberg is a US Air Force base on the California coast.
1:20.7	It's where the Falcon 1's first test flights are supposed to happen.
1:24.9	The base is dragging its feet.
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