Hyperloop
A project to make intracity travel more enjoyable, efficient, and healthy
Hyperloop
Cargo part needs to be less than one operator per 80000 lbs, needs to take less people than trucking
Get there faster… without the speeding ticket
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We have the power to adapt to change, and we have the power to give form to our future
-Bjarke Ingels
from TED Talk
Ordinary, useful things can also be beautiful.
-The Modern World
Vicky • Barry Diller: Instinct Over Algorithms
Design the system, not just a single product or piece inside of the system
... See moreOnce I thought that [writing this book] would be impossible. It was a skyscraper, massive and complete and unbearably far off. It taunted me from the horizon. But do we ever look at such buildings and assume they sprung up overnight? No. We’ve seen the traffic congestion that attends them. The skeleton of beams and girders. The swarm of builders
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from acknowledgements in Morning Star
Deletion requires courage that addition doesn’t
-Shane Parrish
from Brain Food #648
Hyperloop math
500 miles
1 stretch, 2 stations
10 year capex loan
100 people/flight x 6 flights/day both ways x 6 days/week >> 4000 people weekly >> 200000 people annually x 25% of market avg over 10 years >> 50000 people annually
$100 /seat one way >> $5M revenue annually
60-80% operating margin >> $3-4M annual op profit
60-80% op profit set aside for
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