Kelsey Hightower

And maybe it's slightly different than that.

So I'm watching these people work, and they show me how spacecraft has evolved over the last 20 or 30 years.

I'm like, wow, you all seem to have an actual purpose.

For the first time, I've seen people using technology not to just make more apps, not to add numbers in a database, but to actually have humanity do something.

And so they were not all about Kubernetes and Docker and Python and Go.

They were like, we're just trying to get a person to Mars and back again.

I remember part of the interview process, their interview questions are, if you had to deflect a meteor, how would you do it?

But it has to hit one state.

So now you're in the leadership position, what would you do?

And you're just explaining the answer.

You're like, you know, I would kind of bring a bunch of experts and then, you know, you got to think about the ability to evacuate people and you have to explain yourself.

And the core part of my answer was, you would have to explain yourself almost 24 hour live stream.

Here's the trajectory, giving everyone the countdown, explain every decision you're making.

I chose transparency.

I chose truth.

I chose like, look, we have to deflect it.

There's no way to make it zero.

So we've chosen this state and this is the evacuation plan.

And we estimate that this number of people won't make it.

We're just being honest with you.