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With the roadster.

He also started SpaceX with Falcon 1, not Falcon 9, and certainly not Starship.

[sicp-enjoyer]

That's a good point. The principle of proving a simple possible version makes sense. Just pointing out that those "small" steps Tesla took are already a lot bigger than most software projects.

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Mostly because those projects are badly mismanaged from before they even write the first line of code :P