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Good leadership
by honeybadger1 3y ago
Good leadership
- carabiner 3y agoIt's crazy that he almost became CEO of Apple when Jobs died.
- LeonM 3y agoSpaceX's CEO is Gwynne Shotwell, and she did not almost become CEO of Apple.
- e4325f 3y agoMusk is CEO. Shotwell is COO.
- LeonM 3y agoYou're right, I made a mistake there. Day-to-day leadership is performed by Gwynne. Musk is founder, majority shareholder, CTO and CEO. According to Musk himself, he spends the majority of his time at SpaceX as engineer, letting Gwynne lead the company.
- e4325f 3y agoYour response looks like it came from ChatGPT.
- danpalmer 3y agoNot sure why you're getting downvoted. SpaceX's leadership from Gwynne Shotwell has been truly excellent. I've also heard that many other leaders have had to be quite influential in order to steer the company in a productive direction while receiving constant dictats from a major shareholder. I've heard the Starlink group is perhaps a bit of a difficult area where that shareholder has too much influence and that it lacks leadership, but other than that the company sounds well run.
- rkangel 3y agoIt's also good leadership of an industry by SpaceX. Other companies are following in their trail.
- honeybadger1 3y agoIndeed, the industry was a stalled car if anything. You have what I call "professional professionals" that were running the show and saying things while doing nothing.
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- me_me_me 3y agofunny, that's exactly perception of spaceX i have from interviews and leaks. Where spaceX has a team set up to deal with musk's bs idea to cordon others from his 'aura' when he shows up.
- inemesitaffia 3y agoThat originated from Tumblr about Tesla. i.e csb
- honeybadger1 3y agoI know 3 employees at SpaceX and he is seen as a hero in their eyes regardless what of news media gets paid to post about him.
- me_me_me 3y ago> news media gets paid to post about him huh? All media is eating out of his palm, painting him as genius inventor that will save the earth.
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- mihaaly 3y agoWhy to emphasize on leadership alone?
- bell-cot 3y agoLooking at the past half-ish century of space launch, good leadership* seems to be the by-far scarcest resource. It's also possible that honeybadger1 only wanted to make a brief comment. Vs. writing an essay about the myriad causal factors and millions of people who played at least some small role in SpaceX's success. *Using a "good" != "profit maximizing" convention.
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- 7e 3y agoThe progress is driven by the willingness of SpaceX to constantly run at a loss, and take in more cash to incinerate on the regular. This allows it to run bleeding edge but money-losing programs that that other companies considered but rejected. This was also Tesla's model. SpaceX has had 34, THIRTY FOUR, funding rounds. Usually 3-4 per year. They cannot operate except this way. Most investors and boards would balk at this mode of operation. It's not good leadership, though. It's easy to spend money that others aren't willing to spend to achieve results that that other companies aren't willing to pay the price for. Progress while being capital efficient is true leadership.
- bradgessler 3y agoWait what? It’s not good leadership because they’re burning lots of cash? How are those two related? That’s only makes sense in a world where SpaceX stockholders have mandated SpaceX operate at a profit. I don’t think that’s what’s happening—investors know they’re putting money into a highly risky R&D project that could take years to pay off, if ever. So far they’ve gotten Falcon, Starlink, and Starship out of the deal. I’d say it takes pretty good leadership to achieve those results. Meanwhile NASA’s Artemus is expected to cost $93b and so far they’ve only had one launch.