Mario Gabriele(@mariogabriele):Ex-SpaceX engineer @scottgmorton says one of the biggest keys to SpaceX's success is Elon Musk's willingness to make massive bets on his team. Elon asked his engineers to build the catch tower before Starship had ever even flown, with the goal to catch it on the very first flight. The consensus inside the company was that it was crazy. But on Flight 5, the vehicle was caught. In hindsight, Scott says, making that bet so early was the exact reason they got there so fast.

2026.09.11 15:30

Ex-SpaceX engineer @scottgmorton says one of the biggest keys to SpaceX's success is Elon Musk's willingness to make massive bets on his team. Elon asked his engineers to build the catch tower before Starship had ever even flown, with the goal to catch it on the very first flight. The consensus inside the company was that it was crazy. But on Flight 5, the vehicle was caught. In hindsight, Scott says, making that bet so early was the exact reason they got there so fast.

Mario Gabriele@mariogabriele

2026.09.08 12:31

"Nobody is going to bet their career on vibe-coding a nuclear reactor." @scottgmorton is the founder and CEO of @RevelHQ, building the modern command-and-control software platform for the physical world. The ex-SpaceX engineer realized the broader hardware industry was trapped in the 1980s, relying on fragile legacy tools or spending years trying to build control systems from scratch. So he built Revel to power everything from nuclear reactors to industrial facilities monitoring over 250,000 telemetry channels. (2:04) Why no one will vibe-code a nuclear reactor (5:27) What Revel actually does (15:20) Lessons from nearly a decade at SpaceX (20:22) Why Revel built RevelCode (33:50) What Scott took from Elon – and what he chose to leave behind (43:40) Deploying Revel and the hiring bottleneck (49:36) Revel’s unusually smooth trajectory (51:05) How AI fits into Revel’s platform (54:18) Final meditations