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Musk is chief engineer - he makes engineering decisions at SpaceX and has a reputation for mostly making good ones

• martin8412 3y ago
  It's a title he has given himself. You can give yourself whatever title you want when you own the company. Doesn't mean anything at all.
  • panick21_ 3y ago
    Ok so who was the chief engineer on the falcon 1? Look you are just doing what everybody does who dislikes Musk. The reality is we have overwhelming evidence from many sources who have actual knowlage on the topic. Of course that does matter because a friend friends uncle has a sister at SpaceX who said something about how Musk was bad or whatever.
    • martin8412 3y ago
      It's a title. It means fuck all. If you start a company, you can name yourself whatever. I'm the director of a company. In the concrete case, Musk has NO credentials for being a chief engineer. He's a bachelor of arts in physics. Ironically a bachelor of science in economics. His main talent is extracting subsidies from the US government.
      • kidme5 3y ago
        Musk offered the Chief Engineer title to Michael D. Griffin who is discussed elsewhere in this hackernews post. That was mentioned in Liftoff. Griffin basically felt he could pull more strings in Washington.
      • panick21_ 3y ago
        Credentials don't matter in the real world. The question is who does the job. And we have plenty of evidence that Musk does that job, weather you like it or not. > His main talent is extracting subsidies from the US government. That's just flat out inaccurate nonsense.