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In the past 15 years, it's been demonstrated that startups can successfully build cars at scale and commercial rocket ships. No company is safe. Boeing is exa
by mywittyname 5y ago
In the past 15 years, it's been demonstrated that startups can successfully build cars at scale and commercial rocket ships.
No company is safe. Boeing is exactly the type of company that won't know they're dying until they are dead.
- echelon 5y ago> No company is safe. Boeing is exactly the type of company that won't know they're dying until they are dead. Yes, but they're in a sufficiently protected region of state space guarded by landscape difficulty, moats, massive contracts and cash flows, the government, you name it. You can't just build a better plane from zero and immediately start taking orders. You have to start with something small, tangential, and then grow into that market. That's still very hard to do in aerospace because the requirement is "don't kill people" yet the problem involves putting people in mortal danger. I don't doubt that it could happen, but I think it's a very tall order.
- Melatonic 5y agoA certain car and spaceship building entrepreneur I could see taking a pretty big chunk of Boeings pie if they wanted to expand or split off in that direction