This passion for computational science coupled with a desire to understand the “truth of the universe” will be at the origin of the creation in 2002 of the company SpaceX whose ultimate objective is the conquest of Mars. At first, it will be “content” with developing launchers, Falcon rockets, and space probes. If it aroused some sneers at its beginnings, the company will succeed in imposing itself, becoming a privileged service provider for NASA. Today, it is she who notably transports astronauts for their missions aboard the International Space Station.
Space X’s valuation was estimated last year at $100 billion. This is still ten times less than the value that the market attributes to Tesla, the true flagship of Elon Musk’s economic empire. Eighteen years following the arrival of the businessman within its capital, the ex-start-up generated in 2021 a turnover of nearly 54 billion dollars. To honor the confidence of its investors, the automaker will have to ramp up further in order to be able to meet demand. A challenge of which its main shareholder is well aware, he who has always assured that he wants, thanks to his electric motor vehicles, to free humanity from its dependence on fossil energy sources. Founded in 2016, The Boring Company aims to create a network of tunnels to free cities from their traffic, while Neuralink, created a year earlier, to develop a brain implant, primarily intended to treat paraplegics.
