I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.
If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.
It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.
I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.