Ars: Ten years ago you kind of made big bets on Starship and Starlink, and most people probably expected one or both of them to fail.
Musk: Including me.
Ars: Yeah. These were huge bets.
Musk: I was interviewed in the early days of Starlink, and they were asking me what’s the goal of Starlink? I said goal number one: don’t go bankrupt, as every other [low-Earth orbit] communications constellation has gone bankrupt, and we don’t want to join them in the cemetery. So any outcome that does not result in death would be a good outcome.
Ars: Starlink has become really successful. It helped me during a hurricane.
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