Ken Venner

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352 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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Sourcery · Fmr SpaceX CIO Ken Venner on Elon, Gwynne, & SpaceX Playbook · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

I'm not really a true just run the system about continuously improving the system.

And the CFO at SpaceX was an ex-Broadcomer that I knew.

He invited me up one day.

to just do a tour of the factory.

I wasn't looking for a job, but he invited me up.

I did this tour of the factory, which is in Hawthorne, downtown LA-ish.

And here they are building big metal objects.

It's supposedly cheaper than anyone else in the world in downtown LA.

And I'm like, well, this is crazy, but I have manufacturing in my blood.

My entire career has been in manufacturing.

I'm like, oh, this is a pretty interesting place.

I have no idea who they are.

I don't know what they do for a living, because SpaceX wasn't a name back in those days.

and they're an hour at least away from where I live.

So he offered me a job, and I'm like, I don't know, I don't want to drive an hour up to this place.

But it was such an interesting story that Elon was going to save humanity from itself by colonizing another planet, because we're going to screw this one up, and we need to keep humankind going.

And it was another scaling opportunity.

So I thought about it, talked to my wife, and in the end decided to bite the bullet, take it.

It was a great move.

Chief information officer working for Elon and Gwen, yep.

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