Launching rockets three times a day, who is the one who has the biggest impact on Musk?

Recently, the National Academy of Engineering announced the list of new academicians, and Tesla founder Musk was listed.

Two and a half years later, Musk gave a blockbuster speech. At the same time, the latest progress of SpaceX's starship was announced:

1. It is planned to launch 50 more rockets this year, and in the future, it will reach the rhythm of "three shots a day". 2. If the environmental assessment of nasa is passed before the end of the month, the starship will test fly as soon as next month. 3. By 2023, Japanese billionaire Maezawa Tomosaku will take a starship to travel around the moon.

Musk's ultimate goal is to get humans to Mars. He even confidently said that one day, we could turn Mars into an Earth-like planet.

In fact, in addition to these remarks made publicly by Musk, many of the behaviors of Musk and Tesla Motors are puzzling.

For example, Musk did not set up a public relations department for Tesla, and even did not run normal media ads;

Musk is also good at using various news of building car factories to win people's attention; at the same time, he is keen to add some high-tech configurations to the car to make Tesla look different.

However, if you look closely, you will find that these practices are not original to Musk, but intentionally or unintentionally imitate an early figure in the auto industry, who is william Durant, the founder of General Motors.

It can be said that many of William Durant's practices in the process of founding General Motors are the same as Musk's behavior, except that he did these things more than a hundred years before Musk.

In China, when it comes to Durant, he may not be as well-known as Ford or Edison, but his impact on the auto industry can be described as earth-shaking.

After 1900, Durant founded the Buick and Chevrolet brands and established General Motors, the largest american automaker of the 20th century. He spanned both the auto and the horse-drawn carriage era, and the major American car brands were almost all related to him: Cadillac was once in his pocket, Chrysler used to work for him, and he even single-handedly reshaped the American carriage industry, and single-handedly reshaped the American automobile industry.

Looking back to today, what Tesla founder Musk has done, in fact, has a lot of Durant's shadow. And Durant can be said to be one of the people who have the greatest influence on Musk.

Whether it is a seemingly absurd approach or a wild idea, it may have long been recorded in the long river of history.