Rocket Lab's culture prizes speed and technical problem-solving over waiting. When a valve supplier quoted nine months, engineers built one themselves. The company is run by engineers who make decisions based on technical analysis, not bureaucracy.
I think in a lot of respects, the cultures between SpaceX and Rocket Lab are similar but different. You know, the one thing that we really drive home here is hustle. And that means different things to different people. But in the Rocket Lab context, it means like, you know, when there's an issue, you don't just sort of stop and accept there's an issue. You just find, a million different ways around that issue. And I think a lot of people get to a problem and they just sort of go, well, we can't get this valve. So they just, okay, it's gonna be 9 months till we get this valve. So we'll just have to wait 9 months for the valve. And maybe it's a boldness or an arrogance or just also just a sheer willingness to survive. We just would never accept that and we would just, go and make a valve and just make it work. So I think that's part of it. I think we are an engineering company first and everything else is second. And so all kind of decisions are kind of an engineering-based approach, methodical kind of approach. And if you look right throughout our leadership right up through our corporate structure, everybody's deeply technical. I mean, Adam Spicer, our CFO, you can have as deeply technical conversation about a rocket engine as you want with him. So I think having that right across the business is important.
