Turning down Boeing to design airplanes at Scaled Composites
From Why Pure Software Is Uninvestable: The SpaceX & YC Way to Build Hardware on Deeptech Decoded, with Jamie Gull.
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But I actually for the conversation, I just want to get to know you as a human being first before going into all the achievements that you witnessed, you built as a part of the team. then towards the end, we are gonna have two founders today who are gonna have a conversation with you. They are also building their own startup and I've been in conversation with them for like... not almost a year,
Excellent.
If that is fine with you, then I will continue in this flow. I don't have a definitive script, but I have questions in my head and I will take the conversation wherever it goes. But awesome. And actually, once you graduated, then you kind of joined a very small team and took full responsibility on end to end. Not a, me get into this training program or let me get into this big, big machine, one of those big aerospace companies and then see things inside and then find something other. That's most of the times that the thinking, but then I think the urge was already clear back then when you picked. you made that move. What was the most exciting part there? What made you say, my gosh, yes, let's go.
Yeah, it was it was very clear to me where I wanted to be. I did that internship at Boeing was they offered a job for me to come back after I fidget finished my my master's degree and I declined. And some folks thought I was crazy. but I after being there for three months, I was terrified that I was gonna be bored out of my mind. It was incredibly slow. Like they had me
Mm.
change a a number on a drawing and it took l weeks to change one number.
What exactly was the assignment, engagement you had?
it was a three month internship working on some small parts of the F twenty two, which was super cool. It's like one it's an incredible fighter jet that's the you know
Mm.
most advanced in the world and or at least was at that time. And that was amazing. But my assignment was, you know, I came in and did some data analysis, like code work, cleaned up a a system there and it was it was just kind of clear that like They they have some very amazing engineers there in the top end, but I think on average it was just like not it wasn't fast paced, people weren't ambitious. it was kind of just like punching the clock. And
