Beck: One of the things I'm always frustrated with is how long everything takes. Ask anybody who works around me: There's a great urgency in everything. I don't walk upstairs, I run upstairs. As we've grown as a company, it's always a sprint.recognize a window of opportunity opening, and when is it worth the risk to jump through it?I would classify my job as taking an enormous risk and then mitigating that risk to the nth degree.
Sometimes, you can take big risks. Sometimes, you need to be very safe and methodical about how to back out of situations. Control the things you can control and acknowledge the things you can't control. Getting your first rocket to orbit is the easiest part. On rocket No. 1, you've got all your engineers and technicians poring over one rocket for a large period of time. Now, there's one rocket that rolls out of that production line every 18 days. That's just immensely more difficult.
At that time, that was an absurd amount of money for a rocket startup. A rocket startup was absurd [in general], it was only SpaceX then. A rocket startup from someone living in New Zealand was even more absurd.. That really shaped us about being ruthlessly efficient and absolutely laser-focused on execution. The hardest thing [we did] is actually the thing that shaped the company into the most successful form it could be.The most terrifying thing I've ever done is the staff Christmas party.
MakeIt That New Zealander looks Russian to me…😂😂
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MakeIt I built a rocket in 6th grade with mentos and coke
MakeIt Sometimes the best of minds are overlooked because they don’t have a degree. I’m glad he was able to shift his goals and now I’m sure they feel stupid!
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