The best Elon Musk quotes from this morning’s Google hangout on entrepreneurship

Elon Musk is the only person who can say he wants to start a company that builds electric rockets and you actually believe him…

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Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson got together this morning on Google Plus for a Google-hosted hangout focused on entrepreneurship. While Branson had some words of advice for the entrepreneurs that tuned in, Musk fielded a few off-topic questions on SpaceX, the hyperloop and his future business dreams.

SpaceX bet all the marbles on its fourth launch

I think maybe for the first 6 months to almost a year (when you start a business), things seem pretty good. Things seem very optimistic and rosy and exciting. Then things start to go wrong, at least in my experience, and you make mistakes. There are counter issues you didn’t expect. That’s been the case actually with every company I’ve been a part of. If you take SpaceX, the first three launches that we conducted failed. It was a very very painful exercise. We were just too stupid to know how to make…

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