All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Sep 15, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 12 segments
(0:00) SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell joins The Besties! (1:45) Gwynne's SpaceX story, selling rockets, and working for Elon (6:45) Running modern day SpaceX: AI, Starlink, Rockets, and X (13:43) Direct…
Um, how do you manage now the culture of these two different businesses now that have to sort of sit under this roof and ideally work together and complement each other?
Um, and SpaceXers have kind of marched in and, and helped out where there were significant gaps in that arena.
Um, and, uh, uh, we have a bunch of folks that were just really excited about it, and I think we all recognize Elon set the stage beautifully, as he does, um, that, you know, if you're not using AI, if you're not leading AI, you're, you could p- you know, you run the risk, significant risk of being irrelevant, and there was no way that SpaceX was gonna be irrelevant, right? It's too important to the company, and the work we're doing is too important.
Do you expect that the, the future generations of rockets will be increasingly more and more informed, built, designed-
And how do you manage the team? Y- you know, 'cause you have like these incredible, I mean, literally rocket scientists.
They've trained their whole lives in a way, and now you have to help them on board to a tool chain and be comfortable with sort of what that means.
Like, I don't know if you saw, for example, that all these mathematicians got really upset when, uh, I think it was OpenAI, uh, solved this very famous equation and-
Um, how do you manage now the culture of these two different businesses now that have to sort of sit under this roof and ideally work together and complement each other?
Um, and SpaceXers have kind of marched in and, and helped out where there were significant gaps in that arena.
Um, and, uh, uh, we have a bunch of folks that were just really excited about it, and I think we all recognize Elon set the stage beautifully, as he does, um, that, you know, if you're not using AI, if you're not leading AI, you're, you could p- you know, you run the risk, significant risk of being irrelevant, and there was no way that SpaceX was gonna be irrelevant, right? It's too important to the company, and the work we're doing is too important.
Do you expect that the, the future generations of rockets will be increasingly more and more informed, built, designed-
And how do you manage the team? Y- you know, 'cause you have like these incredible, I mean, literally rocket scientists.
They've trained their whole lives in a way, and now you have to help them on board to a tool chain and be comfortable with sort of what that means.
Like, I don't know if you saw, for example, that all these mathematicians got really upset when, uh, I think it was OpenAI, uh, solved this very famous equation and-
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