What
Designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
Disrupting
Government-led space transportation model, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
What
Designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
Disrupting
Government-led space transportation model, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.
Headquarters: Hawthorne, Calif.
CEO: Elon Musk
Year Founded: 2002
Number of Employees: 3,000
Funding: N/A
Key Investors: Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Valor Equity Partners (minority investors)
"When legacy firms fail to innovate, start-ups jump into the market and thrive at the establishment’s expense. That’s disruption."