CTO

asgardwalls

A startup CTO.

deadwake05

I've worked all sorts of jobs, from manufacturing, medical laboratories, and now IT, and I have never seen new employees trained by management, it's always been employees who actually do the job, including myself from time to time. At one of the medical labs I worked at, they had a training department that got paid literally a dollar more than the people they were training but they were definitely not management. My current manager spends 90% of his time in meetings, acting as a middle man between his employees and the c-suite, I've always thought it was a waste of time and money. I've had my CTO approach me about something, I'll tell him what I think, he says okay I'll talk to <managers name> about it, then 2 weeks later my manager puts it on my project board, like I literally could of done it right then and there when we first talked about it, what a waste.

Who_Knew710

\[CTO\] $Wik Shot Dev Moontok Listing - DEX PAID - SolTrending#1 - RaidTrending#1 https://preview.redd.it/y96ftlga9lvc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=020fd0762dffc4e675a41e18b1e12fb219d0b132

Who_Knew710

\[CTO\] $Wik Shot Dev Moontok Listing - DEX PAID - SolTrending#1 - RaidTrending#1 https://preview.redd.it/0x5xwvn48lvc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a42f980ccb5d9bc63faa7c23dc2dc8b9dd4edb4

BuzzzyBeee

Meanwhile the CTO of meta has been posting a lot on X lately…

dbm5

Gelsinger was never CEO during intel's heyday. He was technical/engineering, rising as high as CTO.

Bright-Set631

Check out $HOPE, we starting a CTO and moves up from 2k MC to 40K MC in a dayish

BarRepresentative653

Lol what company is this, with that dumb of a CTO. I need some PUTS

fasurf

My dumb CTO bought multiple model 3s hoping to make a fleet of taxis. This was back when the 3 just came out. Same tactic to pump price. I think ER is going to be awful.

kalakesri

Meta CTO is a bitch arguing with John Carmack publicly defending all his shitty decisions when all of them flopped. It is time for another crash (my puts are flatlining )

Stantron

I worked for an AI startup. Our AI was 100% a team in India manually doing stuff. Our CTO was so dodgy on how things worked... But after seeing enough errors that made no sense (or were contradictory) and talking to our Indian engineering team it became clear what was going on.

liverpoolFCnut

I strongly feel the rest of his inner circle should have also paid the price. I don't understand why the DA thought it was necessary to cut a deal with everyone involved and let them all go scott-free! They were all just as guilty as SBF. His CTO, for example, created the system that automated money to move from FTX to Alameda.

Crafty_Enthusiasm_99

Snowflake is volume based and there's a ton to optimize based on efficient queries and perhaps even a dbt or ETL layer. OP's company should've fired the CTO or Head of data instead

seihz02

It's crazy you say that. I assumed that would happen when Snowflake was knocking on our door, telling us synapse was more expensive. Hire me as your CTO. :)

ImpossibleJoke7456

We use it at my job. Took a year to migrate all our clients from Azure to Snowflake but they’re 12X more expensive so we’re moving back to Azure. (and we replaced our CTO because of it.)

Slut_Spoiler

CEO, coo, CTO all dumped their shares. Don't baghold bro. 2 days is better than most IPOs get in this market.

Able_Web2873

Reddit, $RDDT, insiders have been selling stock after the IPO. CEO Steve Huffman sold shares worth $16 million, CTO Christopher Slowe sold $6 million, and COO Jennifer Wong sold $16 million.

potsmokinghippi

CEO Steve Huffman sold over 1M shares worth $32M, CTO Chis Slowe sold $6M, COO Jen Wong sold $16M No position

Mbz451

I meant c-suite positions like what you held in your other company. Boeing's issues with mcas should've warranted a full c-suite purge, especially their CTO/CIO, whom outsourced critical software engineering to india.

randompersonx

I agree. I was the CTO/Founder of a medium size tech company 20 years ago, and got to see the company and many of our key customers go through its ups and downs… Boeing’s problem is not just one guy (CEO)… it’s a culture problem that has infected a large number of employees. Some percentage of the employees are just incapable of doing better and shouldn’t have been hired. Some percentage can do better but feel like it’s pointless when their coworkers either can’t or won’t do better. Even if the employees did do better, the engineering of many things was done poorly for many years, and now the company is stuck with the “technical debt” of those decisions. IMHO, the solution is to merge Boeing and spirit, sort through to figure out who can do better, and who can’t. Fire the bad apples, hire better people. Get the 737 Max in as good of shape as they can… and immediately hit the drawing board to actually build a new plane that isn’t just a rehash of a many decade old 737… build something that should last decades into the future. If Boeing doesn’t do this, airbus will end up with their a220 killing Boeing in a decade or two.

ub3rm3nsch

Reddit doesn't make money because the CEO and CTO each get paid 6 times the salary of the CEO of Goldman Sachs despite Reddit having a a fraction the revenue of Goldman Sachs The CEO snd CTO compensation packages will be overseen now by shareholders who can reject comp packages via proxy voting. I don't get how this is confusing to this sub.

ChillWatcher98

Yeah but in that same vain what has Sam Altman published as a first author? He's the CEO the more technical " paper writing " roles are reserved for CTO's or Chief scientist. So far his resume is Co-founding deep mind which has had some of the biggest breakthroughs in AI in the last decade, and Inflection AI which makes PI 2 ( a really good product I was negative about prior ). Apart from him being abusive at google I don't see other red flags

nerdy-nate

CTO showing off their tech

apurimac777

I'll say it here because it's the only place in 2024 you can say it But OpenAI's CTO is fine AF.

uncleBu

Surely if the CTO of a company wanted to sell puts it would fall under insider trading restrictions unless there was a SEC filing with a waiting period for said sell. It’s not like they can’t manipulate the stock.

BSchafer

PLTR has smoked the Nasdaq though (ytd- 41% vs 7%, 1 y- 200% vs 40%). NQ is great for hedging purposes but if you’re trying to capture alpha with it you’re dumb as hell. If you’re knowledgable/intelligent it’s much easier to capture alpha through outperforming companies than trying to time the tops and bottoms of an index through NQ. The latter relies more on luck/randomness than skill (which is only advantageous if you’re dumber than the avg investor). Every large company/government is looking for secure software suites that allow them to run their private databases through LLM’s while outputting insightful results in an organized/elegant manner. PLTR is really the only software company that has repeatedly proven its ability to provide extremely impactful results in real world situations. Their security systems have proven their ability to keep valuable data secure during war where nation states like Russia have been using vest amounts of resources to breakthrough PLTR’s systems with no luck. This is a huge selling point for every CEO/CTO who wants to dive into Ai/LLM but is worried about a data breach. PLTR’s significant advantage and head-start in secure Ai data management/analysis has led to them capturing many lucrative contracts. If you’re unable to understand why PLTR has massively outperformed the Nasdaq and is well positioned for huge growth opportunities, you should probably stick to rolling the dice on Nasdaq futures.

crazy-ITAguy

Puts in vale Sa (Brazilian’s mining company) the government is trying to interfere, and the CTO went out because of it

kikijoko

Looks like president/CEO sold about 69,000 shares, and the CTO sold about 30,000 shares. Do what you want with this. This was reported last week. Im hesitant to jump in, especially with the IV.

kikijoko

Looks like president/CEO sold about 69,000 shares, and the CTO sold about 30,000 shares. Do what you want with this. This was reported last week. Im hesitant to jump in, especially with the IV.

jus-another-juan

I've enjoyed the gains in crypto. I was also CTO for a two fintech startups. I fully understand bitcoin and still think it will end very very badly for the crypto bros. Bitcoin can continue for as long as governments allows it to. Let's see how long that is. Conspiracy: the US debt cycle is out of control. Arguably a worldwide issue. Wouldn't it be crazy if bitcoin market cap suddenly made lots and lots of dollars dissappear into thin air. Almost like a coordinated reset? Didn't we lose track of trillions of dollars of debt during 9/11? Government gets very clumsy around these times..

minatauro1

Looks like president/CEO sold about 69,000 shares, and the CTO sold about 30,000 shares. Do what you want with this. This was reported last week. Im hesitant to jump in, especially with the IV.

NecessaryAd7426

Probably, since just yesterday they hired a notable AI exec and AMD CTO teased heavy AI usage to improve performance just like Nvidia did. They have a Media conference 1 hour and half before opening of the stock market, so buckle up. 🚀

MoonubHunter

I agree; and will add : the impact on the enterprise business will be vast. Google’s AI offense has to be selling AI tools to enteprise. Each of these public fuck ups with their AI tools makes it harder for any procurement manager or CTO to tell their bosses they have chosen Google to power their AI strategy. Honestly. A sales rep at Google needs to be 100 per cent better to close a deal this week than was needed a week ago. No one will risk their reputation on Google when Microsoft is a proven enterprise partner and now thought leader in AI; with Google looking like a bunch of arrogant clowns.

saysjuan

Nothing has changed with their business model except the CEO starting throwing the word AI Round everywhere. It will have no effect on their revenue. No fortune 500 CIO/CTO said wow Dell is now AI ready we should drop suppliers and move to Dell. It’s short term hype as most Fortune 500’s would rather go to Azure/AWS for AL/ML functionality with an OPEX model vs invest in CAPEX dollars or long lease terms to setup specialized infrastructure in their own data center. Maybe 2-3 years from now if the cloud providers run into capacity bottlenecks but not something we’ll see in the short term. If anything it’s the same investment dollars shifted from one IT Project to another.

_Thraxa

Well for starter’s he’s lying. The previous board, especially the members who departed, had little if any actual technical AI experience (except the former CTO). They were effective altruist weirdos that had a bad dose of main character syndrome.

rblackcloud09

Briefly reached $0.85 today at the end of the original flag formation, but didn't stick. LONDON, Feb. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arqit Quantum Inc. (ARQQ) , a leader in quantum-safe encryption was honored to receive two Glomo awards at Mobile World Congress on February 28, 2024. The company took home the top honour in the CTO Choice: Outstanding Mobile Technology Award category, which was voted on by CTO’s across the industry, including those from the world’s major mobile phone companies, along with the award for Best Mobile Security Solution.

BourbonRick01

I think it was the CTO, not the CEO that sold shares last week. And it was .006% of his holdings. CTO Timothy Stonehocker sold 6,615 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, February 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $3.56, for a total value of $23,549.40. Following the sale, the chief technology officer now owns 983,561 shares in the company, valued at $3,501,477.16.

rotarychainsaw

Oh and their new CTO is a very interesting hire. Smart dude. I think there's big potential here but maybe a few years off.

320th-Century

All the advice Blackwells has offered to Disney sucks ass. Except for the CTO one.

kingliness

I doubt this "Stephen Altemus, Tim Crain (CTO of $LUNR), and Kam Ghaffarian, own somewhere between **45 - 70%** of the company" according to many resources, e.g., [https://www.wallstreetzen.com/stocks/us/nasdaq/lunr/ownership](https://www.wallstreetzen.com/stocks/us/nasdaq/lunr/ownership) **Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ: LUNR) is owned by 3.59% institutional shareholders, 24.07% Intuitive Machines insiders, and 72.34% retail investors. Kingstown 1740 Fund LP is the largest individual Intuitive Machines shareholder, owning 4.05M shares representing 4.41% of the company. Kingstown 1740 Fund LP's Intuitive Machines shares are currently valued at $38.84M.** 72.34% retail investors

AlleyKatPr0

I would not wish to comment on Cramer, as that (I feel) would conflate the following comments I wish to make on Adobe. Adobe have a subscription model, and so long as the subscription model is more cost effective to companies and CTO's budget, then they will be a strong stock performer. Their key products have been attached to a subscription system to such and effective level, they no longer have to sell individual licences for their products, and, thanks to digital distribution models, have a licence to print money. At a lower level, Adobe is not the only option for pixel-based 2-2.5D image manipulation and not the only option for Vector-based 2-2.5D image manipulation and creation, plus, publishing. So, we go to tertiary education levels and ask the simple question 'Is there a preponderance of focus for universities, colleges and to **only** teach/train/educate Adobe products'? And if there is, I think there are some companies out there who offer (almost) the exact same product for sell money, such as 'Affinity' who offer the 3 key product 'types' AND they offer these products at NO SUBSCRIPTION. If I were a company such as 'Affinity' and, if I were an investor of Adobe...I would like to know whether educators and trainers have been 'persuaded' to push Adobe products, over other products? It should surely be more important to train and educate people in the skills of image creation and manipulation, rather than just tell people something contracted and reductive like 'just learn photoshop'. The term 'photo-shopped' is also used across news networks and is even used to describe the psychological impact on the young with models in advertising being 'photo-shopped', and therefore CAN contribute in a negative emotional way. Again, not trying to debate the issue, just making a point about the companies' key product being the name of a verb, if you see my point. IN MY HUMBLE OPINION; \-There is NO REASON for Adobe to charge the amount they do for the products they offer. They are vastly overpriced, for what they offer. \-There is NO REASON for Adobe to bundle their products into one subscription model. \-There is NO REASON for news corporations to attribute image manipulation software into a verb which is also the name of a product, as it is (in essence) free advertising. \-There is NO REASON for Universities and Colleges (educational or vocational) to push Adobe products over other company offerings. \-There is NO REASON for Adobe to not only combine their products into ONE bundle, but, create a series of application overlap(s) wherein features which have NO NEED to NOT be included in one package (Post processing and LUT tables being an easy example). They have therefore made their products DELIBERATELY 'gimped' unless you purchase/subscribe to another product. Another way to understand this point will be they will put 99% of a product into one product, but the 1% that is *essential* to your workflow, exists in *another product*, that is (surprise-surprise) bundled into a higher subscription model. \-There is NO REASON why certain image manipulation patents they hold ([https://patents.justia.com/assignee/adobe-inc](https://patents.justia.com/assignee/adobe-inc)) can try and PUSH for FAR TOO MUCH CONTROL over the digital image manipulation and IT ASSET SYSTEMS to be held and guarded so strongly. They have created a system to bombard people into this system from education, which has followed them into employment, and, even night/evening classes too. May I finish my harsh words with the following: ANY NEGATIVE DOWNGRADING OF ADOBE STOCK IS LONG OVERDUE. Any 'fall of Adobe' will be followed by 'Autodesk', because the two companies are just as guilty of the same failings, and, again: THIS IS DELIBERATE. \-Nickle'n'diming people for the last 30 years, with an 'undeserved' company value. \-An industry guilty of capitulation. \-An education system party to letting corporations control learning, for unclear reasons, without question by governments and industry regulators & unions. These all need breaking up, and, to offer a simple analogy: You want to buy a cup of coffee, and, the restaurant has somehow convinced everyone that not only are they the only ones who should be allowed to sell a particular recipe of food, but that you have to pay for everything on the menu, when you just want a cup of coffee, and, you have to pay for it on a subscription model...for a minimum period of time, so, you end up paying for food that you have to eat, whether you ordered it or not. This is madness, and it needs to end.

optionFlow

do you know what NVDA blackout periods are? and who is cashing out? they blackout for CEO/CFO/CTO etc. people in charge. the other employees who make bonuses as stock options do not have the same information as the top Csuite folks. they can cash out.

Archimedes3141

I mean that’s what basically already happened though. They flipped from a CFO style leadership with cash flowing all into buybacks to a CTO style leader who utilizes all cash for opex and a multi-nation level changing capex plan. What more of a radical reckoning do you want then that.

DetroitRedWings79

I think their reputation for being cheap is actually what’s helping here. Think about it. Pretend your the CTO of a large Fortune 500 company. You just bought a metric fuckload of NVIDIA H100s which certainly weren’t cheap and now you need to physically set them up in your data center. Being that you just spent an ungodly amount on the chips, you don’t really care what the server rack looks like. You just want the cheapest one. Enter SMCI.

ryanjusttalking

* The CEO, Michael Mo, purchased 75,000 shares in April 2023. * The former CTO sold 100,000 shares in June 2023. * The CEO purchased an additional 428,571 in September 2023. * Terry Keith Cochran, COO/President, sold shares in January 2024\* https://preview.redd.it/qoh6sgvyt5jc1.png?width=3214&format=png&auto=webp&s=559f3c656569b92de5df1539c2f3235e82842641 Also note, Michael Mo was granted 730,000 shares (that he could not buy or sell, or receive dividends from, and leaves his possession if he leaves the company) in Jan 2024, and have x100 voting power to prevent hostile takeover risk. &#x200B; I can't give you any explanation for the other transactions listed here. Not that the COO/President has been consistently buying and selling shares for several years: [https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/insideractivitytrader/cochran-terry-keith-1150596](https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/insideractivitytrader/cochran-terry-keith-1150596) &#x200B; I haven't researched the other transactions listed.

rotarychainsaw

I'm loading up right now. They just hired some new CTO that is supposedly really smart. I didn't know that when I started buying but I see it as good news.

re4ctor

Uh you don’t let your CTO and chief architect go unless there’s some shit behind it

Diamondhands4dagainz

* Karp (PLTR CEO & co-foundersold 975000 shares on 07/02 * Cohen (PLTR President & co-founder) sold 329980 shares on 07/02 * Glazer (PLTR CFO) sold 360000 shares on 08/02 * Taylor (PLTR CRO & CLO) sold 150000 shares on 08/02 * Shyam (PLTR CTO) sold 537288 shares on 08/02 But please, tell me how this is bullish for PLTR 

seekhiddenvalue

The addition of the new CTO is huge as well. His background is strong, former CTO at CSCO prior to taking CEO position of a smaller NaaS company. She's building a tech savvy team to transform Lumen.

Frankfurter_i81U812

Are way overpriced, and they (at least in New York) have a DOOOOOO DOOOOOO sales team. I straight up spoon-fed them a huge lead that's a personal friend (I have a friend who recently left SNOW with his vested shares) and they fucken fumbled a global chemical supplier and didn't get the account. But it's cool, sales girl just bought a puppy and needed a day off with her new dog so she canceled the meeting with the leads CTO.

doerpy

Friendly reminder that Elon claims to be CTO and lead designer at SpaceX while he did not design anything and the main person responsible for the design of the spaceX engines was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom\_Mueller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mueller) (Now founder of [https://www.impulsespace.com/](https://www.impulsespace.com/))

roguetrader05

The promise of enterprise AI is being pitched to every CTO/CIO on the planet. It just doesn't seem that MSFT, IBM or Google are very good at creating a concrete business case for spending millions for an AI play. There are too many other tools in the bag and they (MSFT, IBM, Google) are too concerned about growing the sales of "classic" cloud offering. PLTR is hyper focused on discovering real business issues which can be solved with AI. The AIP bootcamps are working and now Coles is a take away from MSFT.

BoolGodd

I was upset with My mom because she makes My stepdad do quite literally everything and because I’m on a voluntary CTO (community treatment order), they can call the police anytime they want if they’re spooked or they got into an argument w Me. One of My Doctors saved My life and called a cab before police got there (I’ve been beaten up pretty bad by police before and She worried that it could be risky to be escorted by police)

Ashamed-Second-5299

They won’t. They are slowest for a working LLM right now. I work in their tech stack cuz our company uses aws, fucken awful. We all keep telling CTO to switch to azure

foo-bar-nlogn-100

I delivered to production early today so i can watch AMD. Is it insider info when i know the CTO ordered 1B in MI100X cards? Actual number was 867M.

m98789

MSFT Rationale: - While NVDA is the infra leader, MSFT is the application leader. - The “killer app” of the GenAI era is “ChatGPT applied to enterprise productivity software”, which is exactly what Microsoft is doing with Copilot. - What’s on the horizon: GPT-5 drops, now Copilot has near-AGI capabilities. Combine best in class AI with best in class enterprise productivity software. - Every enterprise needs an AI strategy to report to their board, the easiest win for a CTO/CIO is to get a copilot subscription from Microsoft and now supercharge their org with AI productivity. - This thesis can be measured on Microsoft’s next earnings when we can look for uptick on Microsoft 365 copilot subscription addition revenue.

NotYourMothersDildo

That’s pretty fucking funny. Coincidentally I was the CTO and a large adult site network. Not as large as mindgeek of course but pretty big. We also ran on PHP. Lol

gnocchicotti

Elon knows the difference all too well. In his mind he's a great CEO (CTO now lol) and everything at Twitter is going great.

CommunismDoesntWork

Here's a list of sources that all confirm Elon is an engineer, and the chief engineer at SpaceX: # Statements by SpaceX Employees **Tom Mueller** Tom Mueller is one of SpaceX's earliest employees. He served as the Propulsion CTO from 2002 to 2019. He's regarded as one of the foremost spacecraft propulsion experts in the world and owns many patents for propulsion technologies. >Space.com: During your time working with Elon Musk at SpaceX, what were some important lessons you learned from each other? > >**Mueller:** Elon was the best mentor I've ever had. Just how to have drive and be an entrepreneur and influence my team and really make things happen. He's a super smart guy and he learns from talking to people. He's so sharp, he just picks it up. When we first started he didn't know a lot about propulsion. He knew quite a bit about structures and helped the structures guys a lot. Over the twenty years that we worked together, *now he's practically running propulsion there because he's come up to speed* and he understands how to do rocket engines, which are really one of the most complex parts of the vehicle. *He's always been excellent at architecting the whole mission, but now he's a lot better at the very small details of the combustion process.* Stuff I learned over a decade-and-a-half at TRW he's picked up too. [Source](https://www.space.com/tom-mueller-impulse-space-mira-spacecraft) &#x200B; >Not true, I am an advisor now. Elon and the Propulsion department are leading development of the SpaceX engines, particularly Raptor. I offer my 2 cents to help from time to time" [Source](https://twitter.com/lrocket/status/1099411086711746560?s=20) &#x200B; >We’ll have, you know, a group of people sitting in a room, making a key decision. And everybody in that room will say, you know, basically, “We need to turn left,” and Elon will say “No, we’re gonna turn right.” You know, to put it in a metaphor. And that’s how he thinks. He’s like, “You guys are taking the easy way out; we need to take the hard way.” > >And, uh, I’ve seen that hurt us before, I’ve seen that fail, but I’ve also seen— where nobody thought it would work— it was the right decision. It was the harder way to do it, but in the end, it was the right thing. [Source](https://streamable.com/4o1k6d) &#x200B; **Kevin Watson:** Kevin Watson developed the avionics for Falcon 9 and Dragon. He previously managed the Advanced Computer Systems and Technologies Group within the Autonomous Systems Division at NASA's Jet Propulsion laboratory. &#x200B; >Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction. > >He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy. > >He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years. Source (Ashlee Vance's Biography). &#x200B; **Garrett Reisman** Garrett Reisman ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Reisman)) is an engineer and former NASA astronaut. He joined SpaceX as a senior engineer working on astronaut safety and mission assurance. &#x200B; >“I first met Elon for my job interview,” Reisman told the USA TODAY Network's Florida Today. “All he wanted to talk about were technical things. We talked a lot about different main propulsion system design architectures. > >“At the end of my interview, I said, ‘Hey, are you sure you want to hire me? You’ve already got an astronaut, so are you sure you need two around here?’ ” Reisman asked. “He looked at me and said, ‘I’m not hiring you because you’re an astronaut. I’m hiring you because you’re a good engineer.’ ” > >“He’s obviously skilled at all those different functions, but certainly what really drives him and where his passion really is, is his role as CTO,” or chief technology officer, Reisman said. “Basically his role as chief designer and chief engineer. That’s the part of the job that really plays to his strengths." ([Source](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/26/spacex-how-elon-musk-took-idea-cusp-history/5257977002/)) &#x200B; >What's really remarkable to me is the breadth of his knowledge. I mean I've met a lot of super super smart people but they're usually super super smart on one thing and he's able to have conversations with our top engineers about the software, and the most arcane aspects of that and then he'll turn to our manufacturing engineers and have discussions about some really esoteric welding process for some crazy alloy and he'll just go back and forth and his ability to do that across the different technologies that go into rockets cars and everything else he does. ([Source](https://youtu.be/GNG6ZzDh9C8?t=390)) &#x200B; **Josh Boehm** Josh Boehm is the former Head of Software Quality Assurance at SpaceX. >Elon is both the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX, so of course he does more than just ‘some very technical work’. He is integrally involved in the actual design and engineering of the rocket, and at least touches every other aspect of the business (but I would say the former takes up much more of his mental real estate). Elon is an engineer at heart, and that’s where and how he works best. ([Source](https://www.quora.com/Does-Elon-Musk-do-some-very-technical-work-code-design-etc-at-SpaceX/answer/Josh-Boehm?ch=10&share=8dc8bc2e&srid=Xuwj)) # Statements by External Observers **Robert Zubrin** Robert Zubrin ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin)) is an aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of human exploration of Mars. >When I met Elon it was apparent to me that although he had a scientific mind and he understood scientific principles, he did not know anything about rockets. Nothing. That was in 2001. By 2007 he knew everything about rockets - he really knew everything, in detail. You have to put some serious study in to know as much about rockets as he knows now. This doesn't come just from hanging out with people. ([Source](https://www.wired.co.uk/article/whats-driving-elon-musk)) **John Carmack** John Carmack ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack)) is a programmer, video game developer and engineer. He's the founder of Armadillo Aerospace and current CTO of Oculus VR. >Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at spacex and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so. ([Source](https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1038832124747571200?s=19)) &#x200B; **Eric Berger** Eric Berger is a space journalist and [Ars Technica's senior space editor](https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/). >True. Elon is the chief engineer in name and reality. ([Source](https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1265080905854574592?s=20)) &#x200B; **Christian Davenport** Christian Davenport is [the Washington Post's defense and space reporter](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/christian-davenport/) and the author of "Space Barons". The following quotes are excerpts from his book. >He dispatched one of his lieutenants, Liam Sarsfield, then a high-ranking NASA official in the office of the chief engineer, to California to see whether the company was for real or just another failure in waiting. > >Most of all, he was impressed with Musk, who was surprisingly fluent in rocket engineering and understood the science of propulsion and engine design. Musk was intense, preternaturally focused, and extremely determined. “This was not the kind of guy who was going to accept failure,” Sarsfield remembered thinking. &#x200B; # Statements by Elon Himself >Yes. The design of Starship and the Super Heavy rocket booster I changed to a special alloy of stainless steel. I was contemplating this for a while. And this is somewhat counterintuitive. It took me quite a bit of effort to convince the team to go in this direction. ([Source](https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a25953663/elon-musk-spacex-bfr-stainless-steel/)) &#x200B; >Interviewer: You probably don't remember this. A very long time ago, many, many, years, you took me on a tour of SpaceX. And the most impressive thing was that you knew every detail of the rocket and every piece of engineering that went into it. And I don't think many people get that about you. > >Elon: Yeah. I think a lot of people think I'm kind of a business person or something, which is fine. Business is fine. But really it's like at SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is Chief Operating Officer. She manages legal, finance, sales, and general business activity. And then my time is almost entirely with the engineering team, working on improving the Falcon 9 and our Dragon spacecraft and developing the Mars Colonial architecture. At Tesla, it's working on the Model 3 and, yeah, so I'm in the design studio, take up a half a day a week, dealing with aesthetics and look-and-feel things. And then most of the rest of the week is just going through engineering of the car itself as well as engineering of the factory. Because the biggest epiphany I've had this year is that what really matters is the machine that builds the machine, the factory. And that is at least two orders of magnitude harder than the vehicle itself. ([Source](https://www.ycombinator.com/future/elon/))

CommunismDoesntWork

Here's a list of sources that all confirm Elon is an engineer, and the chief engineer at SpaceX: # Statements by SpaceX Employees **Tom Mueller** Tom Mueller is one of SpaceX's earliest employees. He served as the Propulsion CTO from 2002 to 2019. He's regarded as one of the foremost spacecraft propulsion experts in the world and owns many patents for propulsion technologies. >Space.com: During your time working with Elon Musk at SpaceX, what were some important lessons you learned from each other? > >**Mueller:** Elon was the best mentor I've ever had. Just how to have drive and be an entrepreneur and influence my team and really make things happen. He's a super smart guy and he learns from talking to people. He's so sharp, he just picks it up. When we first started he didn't know a lot about propulsion. He knew quite a bit about structures and helped the structures guys a lot. Over the twenty years that we worked together, *now he's practically running propulsion there because he's come up to speed* and he understands how to do rocket engines, which are really one of the most complex parts of the vehicle. *He's always been excellent at architecting the whole mission, but now he's a lot better at the very small details of the combustion process.* Stuff I learned over a decade-and-a-half at TRW he's picked up too. [Source](https://www.space.com/tom-mueller-impulse-space-mira-spacecraft) &#x200B; >Not true, I am an advisor now. Elon and the Propulsion department are leading development of the SpaceX engines, particularly Raptor. I offer my 2 cents to help from time to time" [Source](https://twitter.com/lrocket/status/1099411086711746560?s=20) &#x200B; >We’ll have, you know, a group of people sitting in a room, making a key decision. And everybody in that room will say, you know, basically, “We need to turn left,” and Elon will say “No, we’re gonna turn right.” You know, to put it in a metaphor. And that’s how he thinks. He’s like, “You guys are taking the easy way out; we need to take the hard way.” > >And, uh, I’ve seen that hurt us before, I’ve seen that fail, but I’ve also seen— where nobody thought it would work— it was the right decision. It was the harder way to do it, but in the end, it was the right thing. [Source](https://streamable.com/4o1k6d) &#x200B; **Kevin Watson:** Kevin Watson developed the avionics for Falcon 9 and Dragon. He previously managed the Advanced Computer Systems and Technologies Group within the Autonomous Systems Division at NASA's Jet Propulsion laboratory. &#x200B; >Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction. > >He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy. > >He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years. Source (Ashlee Vance's Biography). &#x200B; **Garrett Reisman** Garrett Reisman ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Reisman)) is an engineer and former NASA astronaut. He joined SpaceX as a senior engineer working on astronaut safety and mission assurance. &#x200B; >“I first met Elon for my job interview,” Reisman told the USA TODAY Network's Florida Today. “All he wanted to talk about were technical things. We talked a lot about different main propulsion system design architectures. > >“At the end of my interview, I said, ‘Hey, are you sure you want to hire me? You’ve already got an astronaut, so are you sure you need two around here?’ ” Reisman asked. “He looked at me and said, ‘I’m not hiring you because you’re an astronaut. I’m hiring you because you’re a good engineer.’ ” > >“He’s obviously skilled at all those different functions, but certainly what really drives him and where his passion really is, is his role as CTO,” or chief technology officer, Reisman said. “Basically his role as chief designer and chief engineer. That’s the part of the job that really plays to his strengths." ([Source](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/26/spacex-how-elon-musk-took-idea-cusp-history/5257977002/)) &#x200B; >What's really remarkable to me is the breadth of his knowledge. I mean I've met a lot of super super smart people but they're usually super super smart on one thing and he's able to have conversations with our top engineers about the software, and the most arcane aspects of that and then he'll turn to our manufacturing engineers and have discussions about some really esoteric welding process for some crazy alloy and he'll just go back and forth and his ability to do that across the different technologies that go into rockets cars and everything else he does. ([Source](https://youtu.be/GNG6ZzDh9C8?t=390)) &#x200B; **Josh Boehm** Josh Boehm is the former Head of Software Quality Assurance at SpaceX. >Elon is both the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX, so of course he does more than just ‘some very technical work’. He is integrally involved in the actual design and engineering of the rocket, and at least touches every other aspect of the business (but I would say the former takes up much more of his mental real estate). Elon is an engineer at heart, and that’s where and how he works best. ([Source](https://www.quora.com/Does-Elon-Musk-do-some-very-technical-work-code-design-etc-at-SpaceX/answer/Josh-Boehm?ch=10&share=8dc8bc2e&srid=Xuwj)) # Statements by External Observers **Robert Zubrin** Robert Zubrin ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Zubrin)) is an aerospace engineer and author, best known for his advocacy of human exploration of Mars. >When I met Elon it was apparent to me that although he had a scientific mind and he understood scientific principles, he did not know anything about rockets. Nothing. That was in 2001. By 2007 he knew everything about rockets - he really knew everything, in detail. You have to put some serious study in to know as much about rockets as he knows now. This doesn't come just from hanging out with people. ([Source](https://www.wired.co.uk/article/whats-driving-elon-musk)) **John Carmack** John Carmack ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack)) is a programmer, video game developer and engineer. He's the founder of Armadillo Aerospace and current CTO of Oculus VR. >Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at spacex and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so. ([Source](https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1038832124747571200?s=19)) &#x200B; **Eric Berger** Eric Berger is a space journalist and [Ars Technica's senior space editor](https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/). >True. Elon is the chief engineer in name and reality. ([Source](https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1265080905854574592?s=20)) &#x200B; **Christian Davenport** Christian Davenport is [the Washington Post's defense and space reporter](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/christian-davenport/) and the author of "Space Barons". The following quotes are excerpts from his book. >He dispatched one of his lieutenants, Liam Sarsfield, then a high-ranking NASA official in the office of the chief engineer, to California to see whether the company was for real or just another failure in waiting. > >Most of all, he was impressed with Musk, who was surprisingly fluent in rocket engineering and understood the science of propulsion and engine design. Musk was intense, preternaturally focused, and extremely determined. “This was not the kind of guy who was going to accept failure,” Sarsfield remembered thinking. &#x200B; # Statements by Elon Himself >Yes. The design of Starship and the Super Heavy rocket booster I changed to a special alloy of stainless steel. I was contemplating this for a while. And this is somewhat counterintuitive. It took me quite a bit of effort to convince the team to go in this direction. ([Source](https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a25953663/elon-musk-spacex-bfr-stainless-steel/)) &#x200B; >Interviewer: You probably don't remember this. A very long time ago, many, many, years, you took me on a tour of SpaceX. And the most impressive thing was that you knew every detail of the rocket and every piece of engineering that went into it. And I don't think many people get that about you. > >Elon: Yeah. I think a lot of people think I'm kind of a business person or something, which is fine. Business is fine. But really it's like at SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is Chief Operating Officer. She manages legal, finance, sales, and general business activity. And then my time is almost entirely with the engineering team, working on improving the Falcon 9 and our Dragon spacecraft and developing the Mars Colonial architecture. At Tesla, it's working on the Model 3 and, yeah, so I'm in the design studio, take up a half a day a week, dealing with aesthetics and look-and-feel things. And then most of the rest of the week is just going through engineering of the car itself as well as engineering of the factory. Because the biggest epiphany I've had this year is that what really matters is the machine that builds the machine, the factory. And that is at least two orders of magnitude harder than the vehicle itself. ([Source](https://www.ycombinator.com/future/elon/))

shortyafter

Quoting myself: >**I mean the IPO sure, or if they issue more shares.** Quoting you: >Company issues shares to the market and its top employees (CEO, CTO etc...) Okay. And if OP sells to some chump thinking it's at a good low price right now, but then it drops 50% more, what happened there? Do you have any evidence that Alibaba and/or Chinese companies are doing this sort of thing *more* than other companies? Because this happens in the West as well, take Coinbase for example: [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-02/coinbase-insiders-avoided-1-billion-in-stock-losses-suit-says](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-02/coinbase-insiders-avoided-1-billion-in-stock-losses-suit-says) If you actually have evidence, I'm open to hearing that.

golden_bear_2016

> Does the money actually end up in the hands of the company? Do you seriously not know how this works? Company issues shares to the market and its top employees (CEO, CTO etc...) Those people go to the market and sell to chumps like OP u/GenesisThree who keep the price high by buying and holding these Chinese stocks. Money goes from OP to the company and the C-suite.

eNomineZerum

I worked at a F50 financial in IT. Could never get even $500/year for Pluralsight, but our CTO was able to remodel a corner office he liked and our CEO moved his office twice. We did the math and you could have given all of Engineering a $1000 training budget for less than what just the CTO's office move was. That isn't counting how often those C-types were flying around and traveling, expensing meals, and accepting kick backs that use peons weren't able to. Literally hearing about some new technology we were rolling out because a tech vendor took our C-types to some ballgame in a skybox and wined and dined them...

alter3d

The market algos that exist now are pretty narrow. Mostly they deal with pure numbers -- technical analysis of trading charts, balance sheets, etc. There's been some work into sentiment analysis (e.g. watching Twitter for mentions of the company and trying to guess if they're positive or negative), but it's been pretty crude. LLMs change the game because now they can \*understand\* plain language and correlate data. Imagine an algorithm that can look over a company's "About Us" page, know that the CTO went to a particular school, and then realize that some of his public statements about a technology they're working on are similar to what the CEO of another company is saying... and those two people went to school together. The LLM might be able to piece together the fact that they're actually working on it together and price that into its model before anyone else has realized the connection.

FlyersTime

Salesforce and Slack pause all hiring in technology and product divisions, according to leaked memo Salesforce will pause all hiring in technology and product divisions, including in its chat subsidiary Slack, according to a memo to staff from Ross Harmes, chief of staff to the Slack CTO, seen by Fortune. It's starting the Great Recession

perpetualsailor

Same here bruh. I have worked for many executives that I think fail up in some special way. This one dude completely destroyed a successful product and lost our footing in the market. I think that guy deserves a promo to CTO, said the bosses.

A_for_Anonymous

> My CTO is a girl too she moved up from being a IT support monkey to CTO in a few years. She moved up and down, anon. She sounds like my ex-boss.

fr4nklin_84

My CTO is a girl too she moved up from being a IT support monkey to CTO in a few years. I direct report to her and it’s a living hell. She does know about traditional IT/networking/windows crap but I lead the dev team and she has no idea about project management or software development and everything is a dumpster fire. Her only skill is yelling at external vendors to get what she wants. A guy would have been fired long ago. Having said that my boss 2 jobs ago was a girl and she was fantastic, one of the smartest & hardest working people I’ve ever worked with.

uninspired

O, VICI, STAG, CTO, and then mREITs STWD, ABR, RITM

lamiejiv1

CTO has been a good investment for me. Good dividend

huntingboi89

This is only for high up executives I’m pretty sure. Nothing changes if you’re a hiring manager for Google but if you’re the CTO a hell of a lot changes and you have to identify yourself.

broknbottle

Future company is tomorrow’s CTO issue.. we are not going to get big fat year end bonuses by worrying about some other guys problems. Big year end bonuses is what is gonna get us the new McLaren, Richard Mille Watch and ability to plow p10s while looking like 3 and 4s

LawPsychological7660

They were awarded a $100M contract from the US Air Force. That doesn't get them a ton of runway but the Air Force could be a huge buyer in the future. We do contract work with the USAF through AFWERX. One of the contracting officers told our CTO that they were awarded this contract to purchase a couple of their eVTOLs. Also United Airlines has purchased 100 aircrafts. Those aren't in production yet but should begin shipping some of these out in the coming years. I bought in.

mycomputerisbroken7

Gelsinger was quite the visionary "Gelsinger became the company's CTO in 2001, leading key technology developments, including Wi-Fi, USB, Intel Core and Intel Xeon processors, and 14 chip projects."

RealAceMoney

CTO

_elkimist_

They are cheap AF…no lie, the CTO at my IB bought his clothes from India, I mean cheap ass threads plus never heard of soap or cologne…couldn’t go to his office or be in a after lunch cause you’d have that stank on you for days…no clue why we let so many in…

HearMeRoar80

Apple actually approached masimo back in 2014, under the guise of partnership and potential acquisition. Then poached masimo's CTO and 20+ key employees. The CTO after joining apple, filed a bunch of arguably illegal patents for Apple, which were potentially already owned by masimo. Masimo really got screwed by Apple, and got an axe to grind, they aren't going to let Apple off the hook easy.

theanagnorisone

Dd and check short interest DKNG - CTO sold 90% of stake last week for 8 figures.

Jandur

This again... At executive levels like this these sales are required to be scheduled in advance. There are some loopholes/exceptions but they also require approvals. The CEO selling the same amount at regular intervals is a planned sale. The CTO selling his entire stake when the stock is up 200% YTD is just basic financial literacy. Take profits and diversify. Beyond that these people are still compensated in stock and will receive more stock grants/options as time goes on. It's not like they have no future stake in the company or it's success. Nothing more to see here.

Atriev

Sounds like the CTO is greatly *confident* about *something.*

Climactic9

He’s listed as the CEO as well as the CTO and chief engineer of spacex. I suppose that doesn’t mean much when you own the company and can give yourself whatever title you want. However, many spacex employees have been quoted talking about how involved elon is in the technical side of the company. It seems he does much more than just hiring and firing. Sources: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/s/uLhmjQ6Doo

Tkj_Crow

Actual engineers/rocket scientists and people who work/worked for him disagree. They all say he is an extremely talented engineer who 'basically runs the propulsion department' at SpaceX. There is a reason he is also CTO. You are right though, people overcorrect claiming hes useless because they don't like his politics/personality. He is a bit of an asshat, hes probably not a very nice person and hes got some out there political views. But hes also a genius and as evidence suggests, a great engineer.

throwawaygoawaynz

This new wave of AI hurts Google’s main business (search( which is why they were slow. Kind of analogous to MSFT and the smart phone. But it’s always good to hedge your bets. Anyway the thing for you to understand is that to lead in this space you need lots and lots of capital. It’s basically out of reach for most companies. One thing to watch out for tho is AMD. They’ve come to the party now on a similar platform to Nvidia, and the Microsoft CTO of Azure during their event recently announced they’re integrating AMDs platform into their cloud. I expect the others to do so as well. Everyone is super desperate to get around the bottleneck that is Nvidia right now.

PracticallyUncommon

If you’re talking about the dude that is Shyam Sankar. He’s the CTO at Palantir and chairs the board at Ginkgo

the_casual_investor

Not quite. Over the past month, Anderson (CEO) exercised options for 40,000 shares of LSCC at $8.24, then sold immediately at market price, so doesn't indicate anything really. C-Suite actually had net buys of LSCC on 11/17 of about 7,196 shares, after exercising more options. Then on 11/21, Anderson, Douglass (CTO), and Feanny (SVP/GC) collectively sold 8,472 shares. So effectively, the CEO sold approx. 0.73% of his LSCC holdings, CTO sold 0.56% of his holdings, and SVP sold 33.86% of her holdings in LSCC, but her position was small to begin with (only 6000 shares before the sale). &#x200B; Insider sells don't really indicate anything since there are so many possible reasons for selling, and these transactions are tiny. In contrast, there's only one reason to buy stock, and there's been 100k+ shares bought by institutions in the past month, vastly outpacing sales.

NoApartheidOnMars

Netflix has been public for over 20 years. It's not about VC money anymore. Netflix is a company that does give its employees a lot more freedom than they're used to. And 99.9% of the time there are no problems. Every once in a while some dipstick believes that because they don't make you go through 3 levels of approval for every little thing, it's easy to cheat them. And inevitably it ends badly for them. See the case of a [former CTO](https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executive-sentenced-30-months-bribes-and-kickbacks-netflix-vendors)

HospitalNovel2635

Well, I guess Open AI finally realized that having a mentally unstable person on their board wasn't a good look for the company. Looks like Sam Altman is being regarded as the CTO of Crazy Corp [MSFT](https://marketchameleon.com/Overview/MSFT/?lu=true&pap_aid=stormofnegativity&pap_cid=11111111).

littleteaforme

Let’s see: They lost and misreported income related to GenCanna. They’re fighting Larry Lemons for a deal gone bad out west for a few million. Now, another million to the Internet goblins. And what about the freeze dried weed fiasco. How much business and reputation plus financial cost lost there? Let’s be honest. They should step down those in charge. The C suite Floating around the harbor when they should have a CTO and now they blame Susan? Keep dumping money into then investors!!

maverickman12

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insider-sell-upstart-holdings-incs-080343112.html If the CTO is selling shares when the stock is already down >90% from its highs, there’s probably more downside to come, just my two cents.

Reginaferguson

If you've ever done handover on large engineering projects to final owners, especially when those owners are financial institutions you will have seen this before. The board typically has no fucking idea what it takes to run the engineer/technology side, but has a very good understanding of how it makes money. They then proceed to break everything and usually when it reaches a critical point the board is sacked and someone technical is appointed to COO/CTO etc to fix everything and restructure the company back to something functional.

the-red-wheelbarrow

> I cannot believe there are people out there that would rather trust the ethics of some fucking board members rather than the developers who are fully aware of the potential risks. I mentioned four specific researchers above. Two of them are undeniably the largest names in the field (Kurtzweil and Bostrom) and have been writing about this stuff literally for decades. I would trust their ethics more than those of "some fucking board members" and way, *way* more than those of a silicon valley CTO. >ffs people acting like every coder out there is a fucking mad scientist. Doesn't take "every" coder, [just one](https://palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-the-game-you-die-in-real-life/). And if a CEO gets told by his devs that it's too dangerous to proceed, he'll be very easily able replace them with that one I'm a coder. About a decade into my career. We have it drilled into us to have "deliver business value" at our #1 spot, with stuff like testing and bug fixes lower. Not a big deal to have the occasional email fail to get sent to customers, but it'll be a pretty big deal when those dev teams make an intelligence able to have secondary goals that they can't control.

complains_constantly

You realize she's one of the people leaving right? And she was already their CTO, not exactly a diversity hire. Third, she was only interim CEO for 2 days lmao.

Ashamed-Second-5299

She should quit if she had any self respect. CTO gets replaced by a male who has no experience with AI?

Hacking_the_Gibson

No Ilya, no OpenAI. The board fucked up their approach, but Sutskever is obviously more interested in doing this work like Google has been doing this work: methodically and without undue pressure from the profit motive. Clearly the CTO is also on his side.

jadrad

She’s been the CTO of open Ai since 2018, so much more than just a pretty face.

spaceminion

The OpenAI CTO has the main relationship with the Microsoft CTO. They've been working together for several years, even before Microsoft formally put money in the table. Confirmation from a June podcast. Microsoft had zero reason to make a statement one hour after the coup. This was planned.

commitpushdrink

Bruh she was previously CTO? The google top results are all her in a leather jacket. I’ve only met one fit brunette that rocked a leather jacket and she is _nasty_. I married her.

Thr8trthrow

Implying I have no personal experience with the everyday dynamics that occur between a Lead Engineer/CTO in a startup, and the CEOs, investors and "idea guys". Do please tell me more about how those dynamics work, and who brings the vast majority of the value to the table over the years, and who could be replaced interchangeably and often is, shockingly, upon bringing in new money, and new "idea guys", CEOs, and investors. I'm sure it's just that I lack any perspective on this and need the clarity you can provide from your years of experience.

AmberLeafSmoke

Apologies, I was incorrect on the timeline. The founding scientist and founding CTO are two sides of the same coin, can't have one without the other. Without guys like Sam to build interest and take things to market, people like Greg to build the infrastructure around it to actually make it a product, people like Ilya would just be stuck writing research and testing models in a lab somewhere. They're all equally important to the success of the company.

AmberLeafSmoke

He has been acting CEO for the company since it was founded, CEOs run companies. Yes. Greg was the technical Co-founder as he's the founding CTO, who resigned when he found out this happened. Ilya was the founding data scientist.