SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup economy

Post by rlt » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 5:23 AM UTC

nebula8804 wrote: post #117

throwawaymaths wrote: post #96

Anecdotal, but: Startup I worked at hired a bunch of SpaceX and other musk company employees as middle management, during the hyper growth phase and every single one of them was simply awful. Some were just abusive managers, many were just not that effective. The worst one was a manager that would swoop down with heroics, take credit for other people's work, not support reports on ideas you had, played the blame game…

Man These Elon companies are really the biggest split personality companies I have seen. I have heard stories like what you describe from some people but then you have people like Astronaut Garrett Reisman, Chip Designer Jim Keller, and AI Research Andrej Karpathy all give amazing praise to Elon and his companies. And when the cars are torn down we see top tier engineering execution and innovation while at the same t…

Post by adastra22 » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 5:26 AM UTC

r3trohack3r wrote: post #71

echelon wrote: post #3

I wish it was more like this at existing companies. Why everyone isn't leaving Adobe, Meta, and Google to found their own AI / generative media startups astounds me. If you work in our incredibly lucrative field, you may be able to afford a few quarters of leaning into risk. Startups are like a brush fire. Old incumbents have so much legacy code and cruft that nimble upstarts killing them is healthy . The "SpaceX dia…

Ex-Netflixer here. I've come to appreciate that equity for your time !== equity for your money. Take cash in excess of your burn rate in-hand over equity any day. Then take that excess cash and buy equity. Compared to taking a $250k base and $250k equity offer from a startup, it's substantially better to take a $500k cash in-hand offer from FAANG and use your extra $250k to cut angel checks. Some early-stage startups…

Post by Miraste » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 5:39 AM UTC

bavila wrote: post #51

adgjlsfhk1 wrote: post #47

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Corporate lawsuits against individuals generally don't need grounds. The pain is the point.

What's groundless is this mentality. Please read Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (a rule that is also well-adopted in state courts as well). As fun as it is to hate on big tech, one should still be mindful of the fact that their attorneys aren't stupid enough to file patently frivolous lawsuits that put their own law licenses on the line.

Post by jjulius » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 5:44 AM UTC

nebula8804 wrote: post #126

jjulius wrote: post #119

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Hot take: The people you mentioned are hired to bring big-name cred to the organization. None of them stuck around (correct me if I'm wrong, I've only done a cursory glance just now), they all left. Eg, they're the "top tier engineering" part of the companies, and other employees (and I've dealt with these employees at Tesla in a past life, so I can attest to their terrible attitude) are the "mediocre build quality".

Astronaut Garrett Reisman worked for 7 years there and is on record stating that is all the stress he could handle.[1]: Jim Keller has a history of joining a company to start a project and then leaving once it is complete. He did this multiple times in his career and was with Tesla until they completed the self driving computer. He has also left behind a team of stellar well known people. I am not too sure about Andr…

Post by morsch » Sun, Apr 02, 2023, 6:00 AM UTC

kortilla wrote: post #76

jiggawatts wrote: post #54

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Thanks marketing people that decided to double down despite the clear distaste of the general public at their relentless tracking.

Is this the clear distaste of the general public or an overreaction with bad regulation by a government authority? It’s been how many years now and GDPR has done very little to improve anything despite the cookie prompts on websites everywhere? At this point they are as useful as TOS (not) with the annoyance of seeing one every website.