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That's complete nonsense. There is a lot of evidence that Musk makes all the important decisions (like switching Starship to steel) while Shotwell seems to handle mostly day-to-day business. Moreover, Shotwell has, as far as I know, not actually founded any successful companies, while Musk has.

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Musk is chief engineer - he makes engineering decisions at SpaceX and has a reputation for mostly making good ones

It's a title he has given himself. You can give yourself whatever title you want when you own the company. Doesn't mean anything at all.

Ok so who was the chief engineer on the falcon 1?

Look you are just doing what everybody does who dislikes Musk.

The reality is we have overwhelming evidence from many sources who have actual knowlage on the topic.

Of course that does matter because a friend friends uncle has a sister at SpaceX who said something about how Musk was bad or whatever.

It's a title. It means fuck all. If you start a company, you can name yourself whatever. I'm the director of a company.

In the concrete case, Musk has NO credentials for being a chief engineer. He's a bachelor of arts in physics. Ironically a bachelor of science in economics. His main talent is extracting subsidies from the US government.

Musk offered the Chief Engineer title to Michael D. Griffin who is discussed elsewhere in this hackernews post. That was mentioned in Liftoff. Griffin basically felt he could pull more strings in Washington.

Credentials don't matter in the real world. The question is who does the job. And we have plenty of evidence that Musk does that job, weather you like it or not.

> His main talent is extracting subsidies from the US government.

That's just flat out inaccurate nonsense.

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