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Mavrookas: Auto/aerospace workers failing at shipbuilding signals bad design
“If somebody can't come out of somebody who's building a car for Ford or General Motors or an airplane at Boeing or a rocket ship for SpaceX, And we can't get them highly effective building ships quickly. That's our fault. That means our design isn't simple eno…”
Schimpf: SpaceX received one-third of Boeing's Starliner funding
“I think SpaceX had a third the amount of money that Boeing was given to make Starliner work.”
Horowitz: Replacing human work with AI requires building entirely new companies
“Because like in order to actually, if you're really gonna replace actual work and people, you need to start a new company basically. I mean, it's very, very hard to go in and re-engineer the way, you know, Good luck re-engineering the way Boeing works, given i…”
Chen: Automakers will shift to Boeing-style B2B fleet sales
“Well, one of the big changes, especially if we're going to switch to fleet ownership, is the car manufacturers will start being a lot more like Boeing and Airbus than they will be like Ford and BMW today.”
Horowitz: Boeing's main failure was appointing an accountant as CEO
“I think like in the Boeing case, I think the big problem was the CEO was an accountant.”
Sinofsky: Microsoft could not formally prove to Boeing that Excel actually worked
“I couldn't go to people at Boeing or people at the Navy or wherever in Wall Street and prove that Excel worked.”
Chen: Autonomous car brands will matter as little as airplane manufacturers
“The make and model of the car will become the least important, and in fact, you don't care about the decision in the same way that most of us don't care about whether we're riding in Boeing or Airbus or Embraer airplane.”
Sankar: Boeing has not had an engineer as CEO since 2004
“When was the last Boeing CEO to be an engineer? I think it was 2004.”
Colford: Pentagon officials favor legacy defense contractors like Raytheon over startups
“You know, if you live in Washington and you work in defense, your vision for private sector engagement with the defense, with defense is Raytheon, Boeing, you know, it's not some of these smaller cyber companies out here.”
Srinivasan: Heavy physical industries like aviation remain infeasible for full-stack startups
“I would say that what I think of as probably infeasible right now is like nuclear power plant, right? Like energy and transportation, like aviation, like at the level, like a Boeing or something like that. Very large physical businesses are still not, I think,…”