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Its not just hand off. They are both involved all the time. Musk doesnt just hand of projects. He continues to work on iterations and so on. And Shotwell is in

• mlindner 4y ago
  I was going off of what Shotwell herself said. https://interactive.satellitetoday.com/via/may-2021/a-conversation-with-gwynne-shotwell-2020-satellite-executive-of-the-year/ https://interactive.satellitetoday.com/via/may-2021/a-conver... Perhaps my interpretation is incorrect, but what I wrote above is what I read out of this (and other interviews). > Shotwell: The way Elon and I share the load, he focuses on development. He's still very highly engaged in the day-to-day operations, but his focus is on development. He was the lead on Starlink, and I started shifting my focus to Starlink around late spring, early summer of last year. [Interview done in early 2021.] Elon’s focus in that time was moving to Starship, that is his primary focus at SpaceX. It doesn't mean he's not thinking about the company on a day-to-day basis, but his emphasis is to get the Starship program to orbit. > The thing about Starship is, we know how to design rockets and fly rockets. What we have failed to do to date is to design and fly a rocket that is easily producible and fully reusable. It's still hard to produce a Falcon 9. It's a lot of work and it's very expensive. The focus for Starship is to make it highly producible, highly reliable, and 100 percent operationally reusable, both for the first and second stage. That's hard.
  • panick21_ 4y ago
    And my point was: > He's still very highly engaged in the day-to-day operations, but his focus is on development.