The next founding elite: This is Elon Musk’s SpaceX Mafia

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Elon Musk was part of the legendary PayPal Mafia – the circle from which some of the most powerful figures in the tech world emerged. Now a new network with a similar myth is emerging around him: the SpaceX Mafia.