"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.
Persons:
Tom Mueller, Elon Musk, Mueller, Musk, Elon Musk's, Walter Isaacson, here's, Los Angeles Mueller, Isaacson, who'd, Chris Thompson, Musk Mueller, There's, Elon, Paul Harris, It's, Mueller's, Peter Thiel
Organizations:
SpaceX, Service, University of Idaho, TRW, Reaction Research Society, PayPal, Ebay, Super, Exploration Technologies Corporation, Merlin, Pathfinder
Locations:
Idaho, Wall, Silicon, Los Angeles, Canada, Saint Maries, El Segundo , Los Angeles