Elon Musk: “Tesla still has a majority of its engineering in California.”

“But that's one of the reasons why Tesla really being in Silicon Valley and having the pixie dust thing at the Same time meant that there was just a very, very aggressive recruitment. Presumably being an Austin helps then Austin. Yeah, it still helps. Tesla still has a majority of its engineering in California. Getting engineers to move. I call it the significant other problem. Yes. And others have jobs. Yeah, exactly. So for Starbase that was particularly difficult since the odds of finding a non SpaceX job in Brownsville, Texas pretty low.” (1:50:47–1:50:58)

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