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		nostrademons on Aug 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash Gwynne Shotwell created a company that built a reusable rocket. Elon gave his name and a pile of money to it.

spaceman_2020 on Aug 12, 2022 [–]

Plenty of people with money in the world. Yet only Elon was willing to finance Shotwell.

And last I checked, the company’s name was SpaceX, not “Elon Musk’s Rocket Company”

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