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Re:Space Companies at Y Combinator by llcrabtree on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:37PM (#29114537)
Hands up for scrappy, quick iterative engineering at SpaceX. It's truly unparalleled.
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Re:Space Companies at Y Combinator by avmich on Thursday November 04, 2021 @10:26PM (#29114809)
As an example, Masten Space was created after SpaceX, but the ideas "build a little, test a little" predates both of these companies.

SpaceX has built on top of lots of existing ideas - commerce instead of government services, simplicity instead of performance, vertical integration instead of spreading orders, testing philosophy, re-use...

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Re:Space Companies at Y Combinator by kuu on Friday November 05, 2021 @03:01AM (#29116195)
> SpaceX has built on top of lots of existing ideas

Everything is built on top of lots existing ideas, nothing is created in vacuum.

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Re:Space Companies at Y Combinator by nindalf on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:46AM (#29117163)
avmich mentioned it because otherwise there would be a pedant asking “why are you implying that SpaceX invented these ideas?”
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Re:Space Companies at Y Combinator by kiba on Friday November 05, 2021 @03:25AM (#29116321)
I don't think anybody iterates as fast as SpaceX.
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