• President & COO of SpaceX
  • Main job is to get new customers and handle the bureaucracy and make things to faster

History

  • was not a space nerd as a child
  • loved cars when she was a child
  • didn’t know what engineering was when she was a teen
  • parents were an Artist & physician
  • Mom forced her to attend the Society of Women Engineers conference and got inspired by the mechanical engineer who spoke and dressed well
  • previously worked at Microcosm, Chrysler before joining SpaceX

Philosophy

  • you should make your obsolete your products before your competitor does it for you
  • you should improve yesterday’s task by being more faster, efficient and cost-effective if not you’re probably doing it wrong