Just listened to this, thought it was pretty solid content. Always love hearing Shotwell's perspective on things, as I really respect what she's done with SpaceX, and she seems to have less of a...
Just listened to this, thought it was pretty solid content. Always love hearing Shotwell's perspective on things, as I really respect what she's done with SpaceX, and she seems to have less of a tendency towards overly optimistic timelines than Musk.
Shotwell is in some ways the reality to Musk's hype. Her position and importance is frankly extremely understated by the male-dominated spaceflight news cycle & industry which gives a lot of...
Shotwell is in some ways the reality to Musk's hype. Her position and importance is frankly extremely understated by the male-dominated spaceflight news cycle & industry which gives a lot of attention to Elon and his ambitious insane timelines, in my opinion. It's also part of the reason why I think Tesla is managed significantly less well than SpaceX: there's never been a Gwynne at Tesla. Some always assigned the Tesla-equivalent of Shotwell as von Holzhausen, but he ever only existed at Tesla in an advisory design capacity.
100% agree regarding Tesla. Musk clearly needs someone like Shotwell to keep him in check and handle business. I think it'd be great for Tesla if they were to hire someone like her to do that for...
100% agree regarding Tesla. Musk clearly needs someone like Shotwell to keep him in check and handle business. I think it'd be great for Tesla if they were to hire someone like her to do that for Tesla.
Just listened to this, thought it was pretty solid content. Always love hearing Shotwell's perspective on things, as I really respect what she's done with SpaceX, and she seems to have less of a tendency towards overly optimistic timelines than Musk.
Shotwell is in some ways the reality to Musk's hype. Her position and importance is frankly extremely understated by the male-dominated spaceflight news cycle & industry which gives a lot of attention to Elon and his
ambitiousinsane timelines, in my opinion. It's also part of the reason why I think Tesla is managed significantly less well than SpaceX: there's never been a Gwynne at Tesla. Some always assigned the Tesla-equivalent of Shotwell as von Holzhausen, but he ever only existed at Tesla in an advisory design capacity.100% agree regarding Tesla. Musk clearly needs someone like Shotwell to keep him in check and handle business. I think it'd be great for Tesla if they were to hire someone like her to do that for Tesla.
Good interview, as usual. She touches on a lot of non-Starship info as well.