Hoopla over Elon Musk's Hyperloop Ahlborn's team, which includes cofounders Paul Coleman and Andrew Quintero who have worked with NASA and The Aerospace Corporation, reached out to SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell and were given the green light to use their platform to further the Hyperloop concept. We've also reached out to SpaceX about the project being on JumpStartFund and will update this post if we hear back. The first step is to generate community interest through a voting and commenting trial that will determine the level of interest and potential feasibility of eventually crowdfunding the idea. All of this is part of the platform's multistep process for taking ideas from concept to in-progress project. JumpStartFund "I have no idea if Elon plans to be involved personally," Ahlborn said, but he noted that depending on the interest people pour into the JumpStart campaign, Musk could at some point get involved. The most likely portion for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO to weigh in on would be the "work in progress" stage that follows the voting phase. There, anyone with a JumpStartFund account can contribute to discussions on everything from design and manufacturing to company naming and marketing. "It's going to be a very open process," Ahlborn said. Your guide