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> "That sounds like one of the least interesting things I could do with $44bn."

You could fund The Manhattan Project ($21Bn).

And the Panama Canal ($13Bn).

And the Concorde project ($2.5Bn).

And the Hoover Dam ($0.8Bn).

And an Eiffel Tower, a Statue of Liberty, and a statue of Christ the Redeemer. ($100s of M)

Buy yourself a B52 Stealth Bomber (~$2Bn).

And a Hindenburg ($100M), and a Titanic ($400M).

And still have a couple of billion left over.



Except you couldn’t really do most of that without government support and approval


Rather missing the point that any of those are more interesting than "a thousand Twitter clones". But even on that point, Musk managed to do a lot with SpaceX and Tesla supercharger network which need various government support and approvals.




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