In 2008, Tesla had weeks of cash left. In 1998, two students were turned down by every investor. In 2002, a rocket company with no rocket set out to colonize Mars.

Every company that changed the world began the same way — on the edge of failure, with an idea nobody believed in yet.

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We go beyond the headlines: how an industry got disrupted, how a rivalry reshaped a market, how a company on the brink of collapse became the one defining what comes next.

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