John Collison

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6,048 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 5 Feb

John Collison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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So how do you prevent that?

How do you prevent the pixie dust effect where everyone's trying to poach all your people?

others have jobs.

Yeah.

If you go ba but if you go back to these people who've really

been very effective in a technical capacity at Tesla, at SpaceX and and those sorts of places.

What do you think they have in common other than

Like is it just that they're very sharp on the, you know, rocketry or the, you know, the technical foundations?

Or do you think it's something organizational?

It's something about their ability to work with you?

Is it their ability to like be

you know, flexible but not too flexible.

What makes a good sparring partner for you?

Famously you switched the uh Starship design from composites to steel.

Yes.

And you made that decision.

Like that wasn't uh, you know, people were going around they're like, oh, we found something better, Boss.

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