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☆ Tom Mueller worked for Elon Musk at SpaceX for almost 20 years: 'I learned never to tell him no'
  + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
"We watched like maybe one play, because we were so engaged in talking about building a launch vehicle," Mueller told Isaacson. Musk agreed, but Isaacson writes that this meant Musk considered "Mueller an employee, rather than a cofounder, of SpaceX." "You cannot ask for two years of salary in escrow and consider yourself a cofounder" Musk told Isaacson. Elon Musk with a SpaceX rocket in March 2004 in El Segundo, Los Angeles. "I am very proud of what we have achieved at SpaceX," Mueller told the University of Idaho in 2018.
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☆ Two young tech workers share why they relocated to Arkansas from Texas and California
  + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
They stayed in Bentonville, Arkansas, for three days and stopped in Fayetteville — about 330 miles from Dallas — for coffee on the way back. Northwest Arkansas, which consists of Benton, Madison, and Washington counties, has become the country's 100th-largest metro area. Northwest Arkansas' plan to bring in new talentCompanies like Walmart, Tyson Foods, and JB Hunt are headquartered in Northwest Arkansas and have been attracting movers for years. The Northwest Arkansas Council tried luring remote tech talent with $10,000 and a mountain bike. Do you work in tech and recently move to Northwest Arkansas?
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☆ Meta is shutting down the livestreaming platform it had been quietly testing with influencers
  + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Meta is shutting down its experimental livestreaming platform, which was in early stages of testing. Developed in 2020, Meta's New Product Experimentation (NPE) team was testing the tool with creators. Meta is shutting down a platform it was testing with influencers that let them host interactive livestreams, engage with fans, and earn revenue. The product, called Super, went into development in late 2020, and since then, Meta's New Product Experimentation (NPE) team had been testing the tool. Read the pitch deck Meta used to get feedback on the product in 2021, below:Meta has been quietly testing a new livestreaming platform and is ramping up creator outreach.
☆ I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX. Twitter execs need to be ready to work with 2 different people — good Elon and bad Elon.
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Kiera Fields | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
He was impressed by Elon Musk's vision but he would yell and once called Cantrell to work at 3 a.m.Cantrell gives Twitter employees his advice on their new boss. Elon wanted to buy Russian rockets because they were cheaper than US rockets and had been told I was the guy to ask because I'd worked with the Russians. Working with Elon was like working with two different people: the good Elon and the bad Elon, and you never knew which you were going to getThe good Elon is very funny and charming. There are people at Twitter who are going to need to decide whether they are 100% aligned with Musk's mission for it. That's the good Elon.
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