Blake Scholl

And then I would be a step level better.

beyond in the next thing I did.

When I started Boom, one of the things I told myself was, I don't get to do that that way anymore.

I'm here on day one.

I have to be up here.

If I have to step away from the job to learn, I'm never going to get there.

By definition, it was mission failure.

I have to figure out how to learn on the job.

And I'm still learning how to learn on the job.

But I think that if you look at an administration that goes for eight years, boy, that's on the job learning and what's got to be one of the most difficult environments to do it.

I mean, it's David and Goliath, but Goliath is like asleep.

So I think it's a little bit different for SpaceX

in that they went into space launch commodity market with a big entrenched player and it was a head-to-head competition with an entrenched player that was very powerful.

And we made a different decision.

We went to go do something that nobody was doing.

And at some point, will we see a competitive response?

Probably.

But I think the thing I tell the team every day is Boom will not die of murder.

We're much more likely to die of suicide, meaning we just fail to execute.

We don't get out of our own way.