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Elon Musk's Tunnel-Digging Company Raises $120 Million; Here Come the Tunnels
Elon Musk's Tunnel-Digging Company Raises $120 Million; Here Come the Tunnels-May 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:12:59

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Tunnels, baby. Here come the Elon Musk Tunnels.

The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging venture that , just raised $120 million in venture capital funding, . This is the company’s first outside investment, following its first commercial contract: a to move glorified cars.

The Verge on who invested in this company:

The $120 million was raised by selling Boring Company stock, and according to a spokesperson, buyers are early-stage venture firms 8VC and Craft Ventures, Vy Capital from the United Arab Emirates, Valor Capital, and DFJ — the firm . The new funding more than doubles the amount of money generated by the tunneling startup so far. The company , though 90 percent of that came from Musk himself. (Musk has also, notably, sold merch to fund The Boring Company, .)

The investor logic here, at least , Musk’s long-time friend and investor in all of his companies—which is definitely not a low-key indicator of how this company got $120 million in investment, no sir—is pretty much that tunneling is an old industry dominated by old companies and therefore ripe for #disruption:

“The four-largest tunnel companies in the U.S. were founded in the 1800s,” Jurvetson said. “Like the automotive and aerospace sectors, they haven’t faced a disruptive new entrant in their management’s collective life-time.”

You see, tunnel-diggers have gotten too complacent, down there in their tunnels, avoiding natural light, deprived of Vitamin D, slowly withering away from a lack of sustenance. Someone with a few hundred million dollars in capital ought to go down there and show them a thing or two about digging, because having money makes you an expert in all things.

Or, perhaps, the problem is not that we are slow or bad at digging tunnels with , but that democracies have erected cumbersome and oftentimes grossly inefficient regulatory processes to ensure people’s property isn’t damaged or otherwise have our delicate ecosystem disturbed by a massive tunnel underneath them.

No, it can’t be that. Everyone else is just stupid dinosaurs from the 1800s. That must be it.

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