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HR for SpaceX Super Intelligence in Memphis and Starbase. Just trying to help get to the Moon and Mars each and every day.

Starbase, TX
Joined November 2017
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We are hiring for our super compute teams in Memphis and need to build a construction army fast. This includes engineers, electricians, maintenance technicians, server technicians, plant operators and other roles unique to data center operations and construction. You must work extremely hard with a maniacal sense of urgency and have a proven track record of exceptional performance in construction or industrial environments. Apply at spacex.com/careers or message me if you are ready to help make life multiplanetary.
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Retirement planning.
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Some of the smartest people I know are the first ones to ask the obvious question out loud.
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Impromptu family dinners are the best
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Really cool graphic projecting out the Starship path with potential timing for ship catch! Thanks as always Aaron for sharing the best analysis and graphics in the biz!
If you’re trying to understand why ~22 hours from launch to catch this is the graphic for you
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Flight 15 of Starship coming this Friday! SpaceX teams have been working hard for years to try to complete a catch of booster and ship. Can’t wait to see what they can do and would never bet against the world’s best engineers!
Starship is preparing for catch Flight 15 is targeting to launch as early as Friday, November 13, pending regulatory approval → spacex.com/launches/starship…
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There’s nothing like having your leader on the front lines. It’s incredible to see the benefits of leaders just asking the troops questions or asking to help fix things.
Armies that win have the general at the front lines. Nobody wants to bleed for the prince in the palace.
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Great interview today with a lot of cool updates! Always fun to hear the easter eggs and updates from both.
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4th Starship documentary “Go for Orbit” is now live! Seeing Jeremy, Shana, Lars, Jake, Mark, and the world’s best engineers solve problems is incredibly cool to see up close, so definitely recommend this one if you’ve ever dreamed of being a rocket scientist!
More than a dozen flight tests and years of development, with countless hours worked by SpaceX engineers and technicians, all come down to this: the first orbital Starship launch carrying advanced Starlink satellites bound for space. Watch “Go For Orbit” and experience the moments behind flying the most ambitious Starship mission yet
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Every day, I meet someone smarter and somehow even more impressive than the day before. More importantly though, they’re good humans that just love this journey called life.
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Exciting times ahead for Starlink Mobile!
Starlink Mobile is building the first fully-integrated US nationwide satellite and terrestrial network that will keep people connected on their phones no matter where they are. Our 5G base stations will leverage @Qualcomm chips to accelerate deployment, starting in 2027 🛰️📱
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Everything in life has ebbs and flows. Storms come and go just like sunshine. Try not to get too high or low as the only certainty is change.
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Election Day is here people. Regardless of who wins or loses, be kind.
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2026 has been like 10 years in 1.
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Loaded the final things out of my Brownsville house today after 3.5 years, and I'm feeling very sentimental. Don't worry, I'm still living at Starbase, just splitting more of my time between Memphis, Starbase, and Atlanta these days. It sounds like a sitcom sometimes, but living out of an Airstream onsite next to the supercompute builds and constantly moving from city to city makes me feel a bit crazy some days. I know how fortunate I am to have this crazy life though and it’s not lost on me. Every day is an incredible whirlwind, and just feeling super humbled and proud to take on new challenges as they come. Thanks for following along with me through the madness. P.S. I do my best to lighten up the rooms I'm in with a few good laughs and ideas. Life is better when you laugh every day, so don't take it all so seriously or get too down wherever you might be on the ride.
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I’ll help translate for all us normal non-genius engineers…power is extremely fing difficult and boy oh boy are certain people really good at it at @SpaceXSI.
He who shapes power, data centers, chips and models into an economically feasible endpoint, disproportionately shapes AI/SI right now. Why? Power is THE binding constraint in AI/SI. Few really have it. Data centers don’t work without power. This is not about promises of power tomorrow. Or forecasted power in 2028. Power TODAY. Chips can’t operate profitably unless installed in a functional data center. If you can install chips, it’s because you’ve solved the power problem. Models aren’t economically viable unless run on cost effective infrastructure which requires a functional data center with low input costs and reliable management. This can’t happen without power. AI/SI ROI doesn’t pencil unless models generate profitable outputs which necessarily needs functional data centers as the critical input. Again, power. Ergo, he who can shape data centers, chips and models together into a tightly coordinated stack is someone who has solved power. Solving power allows you to disproportionately shape AI/SI right now.
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Great article going in depth on all things supercompute in Memphis and Southaven. Exciting times ahead @SpaceXSI!!
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Starlink truly can help to save lives in moments of crisis. It’s astounding to me that more do not utilize this life saving service in their everyday endeavors.
Starlink saves lives
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We’ve been hard at work in Memphis and Southaven with the teams, and the effort is really starting to show as we continue to rapidly scale the best compute in the world!
Macroharder and Minihard both have 220k GB300s with 800 gig nics configured for training. Gun Range will have the same. Spam (used to house Hormel products) will have ~200k GB300s, but configured for inference, so much simpler networking and less than half the fiber. I walked the whole Colossus 2 site around midnight and again this morning. Good progress by the SpaceX team and contractors. Gun Range is tracking to be operational by end of November and Spam in December.
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Halloween is the one day a year you get to be anyone. The real trick is loving who you are the other 364 days a year.
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