She might be brilliant, but she's worked other space jobs before. So clearly whatever company Musk has created, has allowed her to actually showcase her brilliance.
CEO sets the vision. Without vision, even perfect execution is pointless.
If you have evidence to support that takeaway I'd love to see it. I don't have evidence one way or the other, though I have seen unconfirmed scuttlebutt that SpaceX is successful _despite_ Musk, in no small part due to actively distracting and babysitting him to prevent him from meddling
Look you are just doing what everybody does who dislikes Musk.
The reality is we have overwhelming evidence from many sources who have actual knowlage on the topic.
Of course that does matter because a friend friends uncle has a sister at SpaceX who said something about how Musk was bad or whatever.
In the concrete case, Musk has NO credentials for being a chief engineer. He's a bachelor of arts in physics. Ironically a bachelor of science in economics. His main talent is extracting subsidies from the US government.
> His main talent is extracting subsidies from the US government.
That's just flat out inaccurate nonsense.
Yes Musk is a-hole. He has totally bungled Twitter, and he has made the entire world hate him. But let's give credit where credit is due. He has started not one but TWO "impossible" companies.
There’s something to be said about the fact that the other companies tied to Musk are constantly in the headlines for NEGATIVE reasons versus SpaceX… yeah. Tells you a lot.
The chairman of the board on behalf of the shareholders sets the vision. The CEO along with the other C-suite executives executes the vision. But in this case, both the chairman, ceo, cto, founder and majority voting shareholder is elon musk. So you are ultimately right.
You can tell the elon-hate has gone insane when they can't bring themselves to give elon any credit for spacex.
Besides, even if gynne shotwell deserves all the credit for spacex's success, elon deserves credit for hiring her in the first place so elon wins again.