Advice from the Top 1% of SpaceX Engineer | Sift, Karthik Gollapudi | EO

Sep 26, 2025

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Advice from the Top 1% of SpaceX Engineer | Sift, Karthik Gollapudi Before starting a business, shouldn't we first know what smartess is? In SpaceX, everyone is smarter than you. Surrounded by great people, learn what is smart and start a business.

Karthik Gollapudi was the software leader of the SpaceX Dragon Capsule team and founded Sift, a software tool for more secure and efficient hardware. In this video, feel the first principle of thinking that PayPal Mafia, Starlink, how to attract customers at the beginning, and above all, Elon Musk always emphasizes. That's how we humans made footprints on the moon in the 1960s, and now it's time to terraform Mars!

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00:00 Intro 01:30 From JPL To SpaceX 03:30 Sponsership 04:20 What I learned from SpaceX 08:00 Why A CustomerCentric Company 09:48 The Hidden Truth About Careers 13:25 The First Principle Thinking

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