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

You got it done or you are no longer employed.

And like that kind of accountability and that everyone else is serving you getting your part through the process really created ownership.

And the people there worked 10, 12 hours a day and didn't think about it.

It wasn't like we were required.

It's just like, you're looking around at 7 o'clock at night and nobody's left yet.

I'm not going to leave yet.

I need to still finish the thing I'm working on.

And so long hours, but really committed to the mission.

And Elon was really good about keeping the mission as a forefront focus for what we were doing and just kind of energized everyone to get it done.

Oh, my God.

So Gwen was to Elon what Henry was to Nick at Broadcom.

Nick was the aggressive, make it happen, drive people to the very last ounce of juice they had.

And Henry was pick up the mess that gets created, help people figure out really what they're trying to do, make sure everyone's safe as they go forward.

I'd say Gwen is exactly the same thing for Elon.

Elon is just very driven, very focused, very motivated, very...

hard to work for never worked harder in my life than when i worked for him and gwen was as driven as elon but in a nicer way that helped the company keep moving forward and not just burn everyone out as they went uh but brilliant brilliant knew where to focus what to do kept things going when elon would go up and focus on tesla the boring company and that kind of activity and she was like the glue that held it all together

Yes, it depends how strong it is and replicatable.

I'd say for the time that I was at SpaceX, they were able to sustain the culture as it grew up.

So they hired...

promoted, trained to keep that accountability culture in place and that outcomes culture in place while we're going there.

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