Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

June 3, 2022

Duration

39m

Channel

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

"Aim high. We have always achieved what we wanted to, never in the the timeline. We fail on timeline, but that feels like the right fail to make as oppose to not achieving what you are trying to achieve technically." In this View From The Top, Christopher Stromeyer, MBA '22, sits down with Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX, to discuss balancing ambitious goals, putting people on Mars in a decade, leading collaboratively, and why she likes making decisions with data. "You face adversity and I think the only way to get through it is to understand the situation to the greatest extent you can and then be honest with yourself. Pick a path and do it and don't be afraid to say you made a mistake if you make a mistake," says Shotwell. #gsbvftt #gsbpodcast

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Stanford Graduate School of Business, Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX explores Shotwell on SpaceX: risk, failures, reusability, and scaling Starship production Gwynne Shotwell explains why she left a stable aerospace career to join SpaceX, describing it as a personal risk taken in pursuit of faster innovation and meaningful progress in space.

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