I know what you mean, and I agree that innovation can and does happen without a profit motive. In the context of the paragraph, I was talking more about the cul

I know what you mean, and I agree that innovation can and does happen without a profit motive. In the context of the paragraph, I was talking more about the cultural and decision-making environment within SpaceX and Blue; they're a lot closer to (and in many ways even freer than) the "wild west" days of old NASA, as opposed to the NASA of today, where hiring/firing/structuring/contracting are all under endless heaps of red tape that make it extremely difficult to get anything useful done. (For context, I work for a NASA contractor, initially on site at JSC within the ISS program and now remotely for the Artemis program.)