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Re:Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flig... by mandeepj on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:22PM (#36884397)
> They were paid 2x more than what NASA paid SpaceX.

It's worth a case study - why didn't they try to pay Gwynne Shotwell 10x more + CEO role + (M\B)illions worth of stocks? Even if they did, why didn't she accept? She would certainly have turned their fortunes around.

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Re:Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flig... by jackmott42 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:35PM (#36884584)
Hasn't Gwen's main role at SpaceX been sales? Is she also the main force behind spaceX executing at engineering?
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Re:Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flig... by throwawaymaths on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @06:12PM (#36885907)
Operating officer, iirc. So not necessarily engineering but herding cats, still impressive.
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Re:Boeing has now lost $1.1B on Starliner, with no crew flig... by elteto on Thursday July 27, 2023 @12:01AM (#36888752)
She takes care of everything except the Mars program. Falcon is well established at this point and very few engineering iterations remain. It’s a “done” product and the cash cow of the company. Elon runs the Mars program out of Boca Chica but the day to day operations, (ie the boring stuff), including Falcon, is all Gwynne.
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