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The speaker attributes some of SpaceX's rapid progress to Elon Musk's intense work habits and his close, hands-on pressure on workers to accelerate individual components.
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“Partly that's because just Elon is crazy and never sleeps.”
“Like if you look at the examples of things from SpaceX,”
“he is breathing down every worker's neck being like, what's this part?”
“How fast is this part going?”
“Can we do this part faster?”Play from 59:28Report a misattribution
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