Elon Musk's friends held an intervention to stop him starting a rocket company, according to a new book.
His college friend made him watch videos of rockets blowing up and warned him he'd lose his money.
"When Musk decided he wanted to start his own rocket company, his friends did what true friends do in such a situation: they staged an intervention," journalist Walter Isaacson wrote in the book, titled "Elon Musk."
"They made me watch a reel of rockets exploding, because they wanted to convince me that I would lose all my money," Musk told Isaacson.
"I wanted to hold out hope that humans could be a space-faring civilization and be out there among the stars," he told Isaacson.
Persons:
Elon, he'd, Musk, Elon Musk's, Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk, Isaacson, He's, Gwynne Shotwell
Organizations:
Service, University of Pennsylvania, PayPal, Mars Society, Lockheed, Boeing, Exploration Technologies, SpaceX, NASA
Locations:
Wall, Silicon, Los Angeles, United States, Russia, Mars