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Inside Bending Spoons: Finding Talent, Leveraging AI & Driving Operational Excellence | Luca Ferrari Sep 13, 2026 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 14:04 David Senra I have been reading a lot about SpaceX lately. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:03:45 David Senra The, the illustration of his point, which he did beautifully, he's like, well, you know, the modern-day Picasso would be the, the picture of the Raptor engine that SpaceX designed, where it's like, you see the first one.
  • ▶ 1:03:45 David Senra The, the illustration of his point, which he did beautifully, he's like, well, you know, the modern-day Picasso would be the, the picture of the Raptor engine that SpaceX designed, where it's like, you see the first one. 2 times in the scene

Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs Sep 9, 2026 · 4 mentions

Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power Sep 6, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 17:41 David Senra I have been reading a lot about SpaceX lately. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:03 David Senra You have, there's a lot of like, SpaceX culture, or ideas that I hear from you. 5 times in the scene

How to Dominate for Decades | Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital Aug 30, 2026 · 6 mentions

Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing Aug 26, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 16:54 David Senra I have been reading a lot about SpaceX lately. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:59 David Senra Elon approved the first, personally approved the first 3000 hires of SpaceX. 2 times in the scene

Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible Aug 23, 2026 · 4 mentions

Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber Aug 16, 2026 · 4 mentions

The Comms Strategist Behind Anduril, Shopify & Cognition | Lulu Cheng Meservey Aug 12, 2026 · 4 mentions

Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them" Aug 9, 2026 · 4 mentions

Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka Aug 2, 2026 · 4 mentions

DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control Jul 26, 2026 · 4 mentions

The Restaurant Genius Behind Carbone, ZZ’s, Torrisi & More | Jeff Zalaznick Jul 19, 2026 · 4 mentions

The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances Jul 12, 2026 · 4 mentions

Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age Jul 5, 2026 · 3 mentions

The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu Jun 28, 2026 · 4 mentions

The Marketing Genius of Steve Stoute Jun 21, 2026 · 4 mentions

Building Pixar, Working With Steve Jobs, and Cultivating Creativity | Ed Catmull Jun 14, 2026 · 4 mentions

The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström Jun 7, 2026 · 4 mentions

Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life May 31, 2026 · 5 mentions

Rick Rubin on Finding Your Life’s Work May 24, 2026 · 4 mentions

Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company Apr 12, 2026 · 7 mentions

Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell Mar 29, 2026 · 4 mentions

How Elon Thinks Mar 24, 2026 · 39 mentions

  • ▶ 2:19 David Senra Yeah, I think it's important to point out the context in which he started like SpaceX and Tesla.
  • ▶ 6:06 unnamed speaker And so when there was like a, a real constraint on Raptor engine productivity at SpaceX, uh, the guy who, the engineer who was in charge of that, a young, really talented engineer, um, brought in the head of production from model three and… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:06 unnamed speaker And so when there was like a, a real constraint on Raptor engine productivity at SpaceX, uh, the guy who, the engineer who was in charge of that, a young, really talented engineer, um, brought in the head of production from model three and…
  • ▶ 6:48 David Senra So we have a friend named Max Olson who's writing a book on SpaceX that is not released yet, but he just did this excellent essay that me and you both love, and we actually print it out. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:20 unnamed speaker Like, to think about, you know, on this third company, Tesla and SpaceX, fourth company, to start with two hundred million dollars and put your entire, like, generational wealth and reputation, maybe even more importantly, on the line is,…
  • ▶ 12:12 David Senra I have been reading a lot about SpaceX lately. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:29 David Senra And there's a maximum for this is like, genius has the fewest moving parts, and you see this with the, there's that meme of like, I think that's the raptor engine design, and there's like three different ones over time, and it's like this…
  • ▶ 31:45 unnamed speaker That's how you see that like raptor meme where things get more and more and more simple.
  • ▶ 34:39 unnamed speaker He grabs, uh, Marc Jancosa, which is one of his, like, super talented early hires from SpaceX.
  • ▶ 45:55 unnamed speaker SpaceX was able to do something.
  • ▶ 54:18 unnamed speaker And that's why Tesla and SpaceX both have the same dynamic where they're doing things that nobody else is doing.
  • ▶ 54:40 David Senra The second part, which is a theme throughout everything, especially, and I think it's most notable in SpaceX, is, like, cost, making cost control and obsession is not something you, like, graft onto the organization after. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:01:28 David Senra I've read countless books on the history of SpaceX. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:07:12 David Senra In early SpaceX, I told the team everything we did was a function of our burn rate.
  • ▶ 1:12:36 David Senra There's a great, those are early days of, uh, of SpaceX history, where he shows up, I think it's like a Christmas party, and he's like, fancy leather shoes or something, and then, like, they're like, 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:22:48 unnamed speaker All these entrepreneurs who are going to come out of these companies, we're already seeing SpaceX founders do incredible things. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:29:09 unnamed speaker There's actually a great story that I think is a really replicatable tactic that's underrated that, um, I think people can really use actually, which is when he was considering starting SpaceX. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:37:44 David Senra The exact same thing is applies to SpaceX though.

Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think Mar 15, 2026 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 9:26 David Senra I have been reading a lot about SpaceX lately. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:13 Marc Andreessen But, you know, everybody knows Tesla and SpaceX, like, you know, these are Elon. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:41:44 Marc Andreessen And then, and then the other part of it is somebody I know once went to work for SpaceX and, and, and they asked what it was like.
  • ▶ 1:45:29 David Senra Um, it's the first six years history of SpaceX. 5 times in the scene

Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase Mar 1, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 6:30 Brian Armstrong You know, it's a little bit like, um, you remember when SpaceX was trying to get that contract with the government? 3 times in the scene

Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify Jan 18, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 49:32 Tobi Lütke And, um, I found actually we're probably net, like, pixel for pixel, the most inspiring picture that, that I think exists, that I've ever come across, um, is the SpaceX Raptor rocket evolution.
  • ▶ 49:32 Tobi Lütke And, um, I found actually we're probably net, like, pixel for pixel, the most inspiring picture that, that I think exists, that I've ever come across, um, is the SpaceX Raptor rocket evolution.

John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats Jan 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:14:07 John Mackey People don't understand what a master strategy, strategist Elon is, and think about the way SpaceX has evolved in a way.
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