18 years ago, no one was asking for contact information around this handsome guy, but 18 years later, he created a company with a maximum of $2.65 trillion - SpaceX! I watched Musk's SpaceX speech again, and what touched me the most was not the predictions that came true later, but that he looked too ordinary at the time. Wearing a suit and with thick hair, someone in the audience asked about space elevators, solar energy, rocket fuel, and Russian manned spaceflight. He stood there answering each question seriously. The speech ended without any rush. But during the speech, you will find that this young man in his thirties has already thought many things out of proportion. Space elevator? Materials are not mature, don't think about it in this century. Space solar energy? I can't calculate the economic account, I won't do it. Where's the rocket? It is necessary to reduce costs, increase launch frequency, and shorten turnaround time. The goal of Falcon 9 is even to complete launch preparation in 60 minutes, approaching 10 launches per day or even once per hour in the future. At that critical moment, Falcon 9 had not flown a single time, and SpaceX had just crawled back from the brink of death. Musk's mind is no longer focused on whether the next rocket will succeed, but on how to transform the rocket from an expensive one-time project into a reusable transportation vehicle like an airplane. 17 days after this speech, NASA announced a commercial supply contract for the space station, and SpaceX received $1.6 billion for 12 missions. In 2010, Falcon 9 made its maiden flight into orbit, Dragon entered orbit for the first time and returned in the same year, and Dragon arrived at the International Space Station in 2012. 18 years have passed, and SpaceX's market value surged over $2.1 trillion on its first day of listing this year, then peaked at about $2.655 trillion, and fell back to about $1.84 trillion as of August 14th. Now if I send this video from 2008 to those people sitting in the audience back then, I think many of them will regret it in their hearts