Peter Beck

And they're almost so beautiful, they're artistic.

And that's the way it should be.

And whether it's a piece of code, a piece of software, a boardroom, table, whatever it is, it needs to be beautiful.

And I think where a lot of space companies have gone wrong is they try and see how crappy they can build stuff and get away with it.

Whereas we're the opposite of that.

The number one thing that must be always true first in space is it has to work.

Everything else is kind of behind that is it has to be second.

So making sure that everything is beautiful is something that everybody is really focused on.

And it's a self-fulfilling prophecy as well because you attract people that want to build beautiful things that work.

And people who want to take shortcuts and not present the best work that they can do don't survive.

They either realize that it's not the environment for them or their peers around them don't accept their work.

So, you know, it's self-fulfilling.

And if you look at the launch companies over the last, call it five or 10 years, it's not a good bet.

Generally, they all fail, right?

And I'm always asked, well, why did Rocket Lab succeed and all these others failed?

And it comes down to really two things.

It comes down to building beautiful things and it comes down to hustle.

And when I say hustle, I mean, you know, when you're greeted with a barrier, you have two options, right?

Is you can either just throw your arms up and go, well, I don't know what to do and this seems impenetrable and can't solve it.

Or, you know, you try and climb it and if you can't climb it, you try and go around it.