Elon Musk announced this week he would move the headquarters of his companies X and SpaceX from California to Texas, the culmination of a longstanding face-off between the volatile executive and the state where his companies began.
Just one year ago, Musk declared he would not move X headquarters out of San Francisco – despite his assertions the city was in a “doom spiral”. At the time, he wrote: “You only know who your real friends are when the chips are down. San Francisco, beautiful San Francisco, though others forsake you, we will always be your friend.”
