The thing that struck me when I visited Starbase was the fact the people at SpaceX are very much the "move fast and break things" types, in a good way rather th

The thing that struck me when I visited Starbase was the fact the people at SpaceX are very much the "move fast and break things" types, in a good way rather than the shitty hustler way. They were working on proving things with the least amount of investment possible and then iterating, the same way we build software. Part of engineering is failure, other space companies seem afraid of failure while SpaceX embraces it, no doubt that emboldens their engineers further to push where others would be happy to settle. The culture seems very pedal to the metal but otherwise good, as in engineers are empowered to do engineering rather than bogged down in minutia. To me that is the recipe for success, attracting the good engineers and then letting them do engineering.