Wall Street Mav
@WallStreetMav · Dec 25, 2024
Are there talented engineers working at Boeing (on SLS) that you can repurpose on more important projects at SpaceX?
I have always thought that our engineering talent is being wasted at ULA and Boeing (SLS).
Or have you already taken their best people?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
The full answer here is complex.
The outcome of any given company is the vector sum of the people within it. Improve the alignment of the individual vectors and their amplitude and the outcome will improve accordingly.
Humans can be thought of as hardware (inherent talent) and software (education & training). Even if someone has a strong brain/hardware, if their training/software is bad, that can be very hard to reverse. As the saying goes, it is hard to teach old dogs new tricks.
That said, talking in terms of specific companies, Boeing is on a much better track with the new CEO. The prior guy had no idea how airplanes or rockets worked. Just zero.
Regarding space, the Artemis architecture is extremely inefficient, as it is a jobs-maximizing program, not a results-maximizing program. Something entirely new is needed.
07:12 PM · December 25, 2024 · 1.4M views
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