The Ledger
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Biden administration delayed Starliner rescue to deny Elon Musk a political win
“The Biden administration clearly turned that down because they didn't want to give SpaceX a political, an Elon, a political win against Boeing in the midst of the, you know, campaign was campaigning for Trump.”
Goldstein: Competitor weaponized the government by framing Archer engineer as a spy
“If, in America, I didn't think it was possible for a competitor to weaponize the government to come after you. And we saw that. It was unbelievable. It was you know, one of my engineers was set up to look like he was like a Chinese spy, and it was totally fake…”
Goldstein: Boeing sued Archer immediately after its public listing announcement
“So when you have an industry that's so heavily consolidated, they don't want new entrants. And so Boeing sued us instantly.”
Luckey: Anduril beat Boeing, Northrop, and Lockheed for USAF contract
“So we were competing against Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and in the end, Andrel beat all of them.”
Luckey: Anduril beat Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop for fighter contract
“We were competing against Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and in the end, Andrew beat all of them, which was really really gratifying to, you know, go from starting this company to going toe to toe with the guys who are legends of the fighter commun…”
Asparouhov: NASA paid SpaceX half of Boeing's price for identical workload
“The entire structure of the contract is kind of insane in that they literally just, you know, gave SpaceX the same workload, but said the price for you doing it is going to be half of Boeing.”
Oetting: Bonus depreciation tax incentives fail to help venture-backed startups
“Bonus depreciation is awesome. If you're Boeing, It's awesome if you're a real estate developer. And that's great, but it doesn't do anything for a startup because they're a C Corp. So it doesn't pass through their investors. They have plenty of net operating …”
NASA intended to select Boeing as sole Commercial Crew contractor before backtracking
“NASA's predisposition was to do a single contractor for it. The plan was for it to be Boeing. They were marching down that plan. They were weeks away from announcing. They backtracked in the final moments and they're deciding, okay, actually we should have a s…”