Digital pharmacy startup Alto has hired Kevin Burns, the former CEO of e-cigarette company Juul, as president and COO, Axios reports . Burns stepped down from Juul in September amid concerns over the way the company marketed its products to young people. San Francisco-based Alto, founded in 2015, raised $250 million from the SoftBank Vision Fund in January....
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Musk’s Long Road to Mars: How Poor Planning Dogged the Development of SpaceX Rocket

Early last year, Elon Musk stood on a stage near the coast of Southern Texas with a 400-foot-tall stainless steel rocket made by his company, SpaceX, jutting up into the night sky behind him. That rocket was supposed to be the first of a powerful new class of space vehicles, known as Starship, that SpaceX was preparing to blast into orbit, part of an ambitious plan to eventually reach Mars. But...
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