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one reason that spacex has been so successful is because he isn’t getting in the way. he hired Gwynne Shotwell as the president and chief operating officer (COO

one reason that spacex has been so successful is because he isn’t getting in the way. he hired Gwynne Shotwell as the president and chief operating officer (COO). She runs a tight ship. She doesn’t waste her weekdays posting on social media or getting bad press lol.

option 2y ago
I agree that Gwynne should be getting more praise than she gets now. But Elon is phenomenally good at getting from 0 to something that works. And colonizing Mars has many, many various needs beyond Starship that have never been done before.
- lurking_swe 2y ago
  my opinion is that Elon is fantastic at very early stage startups, like what SpaceX was years ago. I don’t think Elon is as helpful after a companies become more mature. That’s why I worded my comment the way I did. :)
  - asadotzler 2y ago
    SpaceX is not at the early stages because LEO transport is not the destination, Mars colonization is. In that light, we're not even at fully reusable rockets yet and then there's making them cheap and reliable and then there's the actual transport of large amounts of stuff and people to Mars. That's what SpaceX is about, not lofting up com sats and astronauts. So, no, they are not mature yet except on one tech they need to get to Mars and that's being operationalized efficiently by Shotwell just fine. The rest of SpaceX's much harder work, still in its infancy.
numpad0 2y ago
I'm suspecting with popcorn in hand that this must have been a massive contributing factor for successful Tesla Shanghai spinup. He'd have zero control over anything.
electriclove 2y ago
No knock on Gwynne.. but they are executing HIS vision using HIS money with a company that HE started
- lurking_swe 2y ago
  agreed. he deserves a lot of credit for starting SpaceX and helping it be successful early on. I’m just explaining (IMO) he’s not going to be very helpful getting them from “current day” to “land on mars”. I don’t want Elon to get too involved with day to day operations of SpaceX. It’s going VERY well without his micromanaging at the moment.

option 2y ago

I agree that Gwynne should be getting more praise than she gets now. But Elon is phenomenally good at getting from 0 to something that works. And colonizing Mars has many, many various needs beyond Starship that have never been done before.

lurking_swe 2y ago
my opinion is that Elon is fantastic at very early stage startups, like what SpaceX was years ago. I don’t think Elon is as helpful after a companies become more mature. That’s why I worded my comment the way I did. :)
- asadotzler 2y ago
  SpaceX is not at the early stages because LEO transport is not the destination, Mars colonization is. In that light, we're not even at fully reusable rockets yet and then there's making them cheap and reliable and then there's the actual transport of large amounts of stuff and people to Mars. That's what SpaceX is about, not lofting up com sats and astronauts. So, no, they are not mature yet except on one tech they need to get to Mars and that's being operationalized efficiently by Shotwell just fine. The rest of SpaceX's much harder work, still in its infancy.

numpad0 2y ago

I'm suspecting with popcorn in hand that this must have been a massive contributing factor for successful Tesla Shanghai spinup. He'd have zero control over anything.

electriclove 2y ago

No knock on Gwynne.. but they are executing HIS vision using HIS money with a company that HE started

lurking_swe 2y ago
agreed. he deserves a lot of credit for starting SpaceX and helping it be successful early on. I’m just explaining (IMO) he’s not going to be very helpful getting them from “current day” to “land on mars”. I don’t want Elon to get too involved with day to day operations of SpaceX. It’s going VERY well without his micromanaging at the moment.