Armadillo Aerospace was founded two years before SpaceX by John Carmack, the guy who founded ID Software and practically started the FPS genre with games like Quake, Wolfenstein, Doom and so on. His rocket company was doing pretty good, winning competitions, raising funds and shit. I was very disappointed when he discontinued.

Today I learned that his wife put restrictions on how much of his money he could put into it, calling it "John's Crazy Rocket Money". He eventually had to discontinue...

Source : https://youtu.be/udlMSe5-zP8?t=8139