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Elon Musk's Sh129tr confession: 'It was never about profit but the people'

The most important business lesson of this decade is not how Elon Musk built SpaceX. It is how SpaceX built its people. [AFP]

 “What is in your hand?”  Exodus 4:2

On June 12, 2026, Juan Hernandez went to work the same way he had been doing since 2015, with his hands. He is a welder from Mexico who took a 28-dollar-an-hour job at SpaceX, a company he had never heard of.

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