> The company is over ten years old; I don't think it's quite a startup anymore. The age of a company has nothing to do with it being a startup. There's a good

> The company is over ten years old; I don't think it's quite a startup anymore. The age of a company has nothing to do with it being a startup. There's a good description of 'startup' in PG's essay here: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html Startups are businesses that are designed to grow quickly. Rocket Lab is. Just because it's been 10 years doesn't mean it's not a startup. Also, both SpaceX and Tesla are startups. Tesla recently pivoted from being a car company to an energy company, and is only about 1% or so of their way along to their goals. SpaceX has not even begun with their goals of colonizing Mars yet. These are all startups because they are designed to grow quickly and are nowhere near their goals yet.