[HN Gopher] SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the start...
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       SpaceX alums are branching out and shaping the startup economy
        
       Author : Teever
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2023-04-01 22:32 UTC (27 minutes ago)
        
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       | spaceguillotine wrote:
       | I hope it doesn't spread the culture of harassment, racism, and
       | sexism. https://www.thecut.com/2021/12/at-elon-musks-spacex-
       | sexual-h...
        
         | jsemrau wrote:
         | From the opening paragraph "Earlier this week, Elon Musk --
         | Grimes's ex-boyfriend, the pancake-haired chief executive of
         | Tesla and SpaceX and also the man who joked about starting a
         | "TITS" University on Twitter -- was named Time's Person of the
         | Year for 2021."
         | 
         | I think it's safe to assume a certain bias.
        
       | echelon wrote:
       | 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 diaspora" should be the norm everywhere opportunity
       | arises.
        
         | elbigbad wrote:
         | My company immediately sues anyone who leave to join a
         | competitor, and even more viciously attacks I would assume if
         | someone were to actually start a competing business.
        
           | tru3_power wrote:
           | On what grounds do they sue them?
        
           | dilyevsky wrote:
           | Just dont tell them
        
         | eldenring wrote:
         | Huh? pretty much every one of the recently successful AI
         | startup employees (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) have had stints at
         | Google Brain.
        
         | mr90210 wrote:
         | Some of those folks are locked in golden handcuffs, some are
         | expats on green cards, and some simply enjoy a less complex
         | life of that comes with being a well-paid employee working for
         | a well-known company.
        
         | lostlogin wrote:
         | > Old incumbents have so much legacy code and cruft that nimble
         | upstarts killing them is healthy.
         | 
         | This is why the company needs patents. They protect everyone.
         | /s
        
         | leesec wrote:
         | What you're describing is extremely common. So many ppl leave
         | FAANG et al after a few years and do a riskier startup
        
       | preommr wrote:
       | Makes sense, not a lot of space companies to begin with, much
       | less with people that have a startup mentality. Feel like the
       | culture at Boeing or NASA is going to be very different from the
       | one needed for a pioneering startup.
       | 
       | And even then it's only a handful of investements, with how much
       | liquidity is/was in the market not surprising that people got a
       | few million for moonshots given how the potential for a whole new
       | industry.
        
       | cyanydeez wrote:
       | Alum a euphemism for "rich people"?
        
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