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I don't think talented engineers are some fungible asset, if they didn't put 1,000 engineering points into SpaceX, I don't think it's necessarily true that they
by abound 3y ago
I don't think talented engineers are some fungible asset, if they didn't put 1,000 engineering points into SpaceX, I don't think it's necessarily true that they'd have distributed those 1,000 engineering points elsewhere.
Not specific to SpaceX, but there's definitely a 'force multiplier' for having the correct environment (managers, organization, compensation, resources, etc) to build things larger than the sum of their parts.
- cbm-vic-20 3y agoI'm sure "old-tech" space companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin have great engineering talent, but their management and business structure prevents them from taking the kinds of risks that SpaceX has. I give credit to Musk for letting talented people do the kinds of things that would get shut down immediately at the other places.