Selling WHAT to Elon Musk?

14 Aug 2023 · 0 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube video titled "Selling WHAT to Elon Musk?" (uploaded 2023-08-14). The excerpt is a first-person anecdote by a single speaker recounting starting projects too early — specifically a failed asteroid-mining startup that suffered financing problems and two launch failures. The speaker describes a conversation with Elon Musk about selling liquid oxygen recovered from carbonaceous chondrites and reflects that Musk told them they were "too early." The content is a storytelling/talk segment about timing, startup risk, and space venture lessons.

There's a whole conversation on when's the right time to start stuff. So I've started a lot of stuff too early. I can talk about my failed asteroid mining company, which I still love, and I still want to go back and do it. What happened there? It was too early. We missed the financing. We had 2 launch failures as we were going for it. I had that conversation with Elon saying, listen, if I bring back liquid oxygen from carbonaceous chondrites and park it in Earth orbit, will you buy it? He goes, of course I'll buy it. And he said, but you're too early. And he was right.