Chris Anderson recently interviewed Elon Musk -- great conversation between two real-life "LabVIEW Champions"* here: http://www.wired.com...on-musk-qa/all/
Brief intro to these two, and how they are connected to LabVIEW:
Elon Musk founded SpaceX and Tesla Motors (both companies use LabVIEW extensively) after selling Paypal.
Chris Anderson showed support in the LabVIEW community championing a lower-cost LabVIEW, spurring an IdEx Idea with 400 supporters for a new version of LabVIEW that would increase market penetration of graphical programming.