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The talent that was originally driving SpaceX is gone. And I don’t mean Elon’s brain. I mean the real engineers designing the rockets.

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The talent has mostly gone because the US is fiercely politically divided, and musk changing teams from democrats to republican pretty much meant his whole staff were forced to jump ship because he no longer aligned with their values.

Do you have any evidence of this? I don’t think there have been a lot of high profile departures in the past few years.

Every single xAI exec left...

Same with most top Tesla execs since he changed political sides.

That's pretty high turnover for a company with RSU's tying people in seats

We're talking about SpaceX, not Tesla or xAI, which only very recently joined SpaceX.

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