John

Can you say what the current Starship bottlenecks are, even at the high level?

I mean, trying to make it not explode, generally.

Isn't that hard?

MARK BLYTHER- Can you maybe talk about the, so, Starlink was slowly in the works for many years.

Yeah.

And so then there was a team you had built in Redmond.

And then at one point you decided this team is just not cutting us.

But again, how did you, like, it went for a few years slowly.

And so why did this, why didn't you act earlier?

And why did you act when you did?

Like, why was that the right moment at which to act?

By this current number, yeah.

It's not exactly going badly, but it's the thing that we need to make go faster to- And so when something's a limiting factor at SpaceX or Tesla, are you talking weekly, daily with the engineer that's working on it?

How does that actually work?

Is it open-ended in how long it goes?

MARK MANDELMANN- That's another thing.

I'm just trying to tease out the differences here, because the outcomes seem quite different.

And so I think it's interesting to note what inputs are different.

And it feels like the corporate world, one, like you were saying, just the CEO doing engineering reviews does not always happen, despite the fact that that is what the company is doing.

But then time is often pretty finely sliced into half-hour meetings or even 15-minute meetings.