Musk and Mars

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Former SpaceX Employee Explains What It's Like To Work For Elon Musk.
Richard Feloni
Jun. 24, 2014, 10:46 AM
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-...#ixzz362Z0sV00

What is it like to work with Elon Musk?
https://www.quora.com/Elon-Musk/What...rid=Ji&share=1


Good stuff. The main take-away is that they're a start-up and as with
any start-up it's an uphill battle to succeed. You've got to make the
best products out there so that any potential customers will pick you
over any other competition.

As far as the work environment descriptions go, they're consistent with
other start-ups I've heard about. Long hours, sometimes even low pay,
with a chance of a big payoff some years down the road. If the start-up
succeeds, then everyone gets "rich". If it fails, you find another job.
It's a cut-throat work environment that's not for everyone.

And this is one reason why it can be very hard for an existing company
to counter an up and coming start-up. One way to easily counter them is
to buy them. But when the company is privately owned, and the owner
doesn't want to sell, fighting them means resorting to other measures.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer