George Whitesides: “And yes, we grew it from, you know, maybe a couple dozen…”

“You know, we set out to hire good people and good people had done it elsewhere, but mixing, you know, air, airplane and space cultures, which are two totally different things in many respects because it's a rocket plane. And yes, we grew it from, you know, maybe a couple dozen people up to, you know, when I stepped back, it was, you know, over 8900 people. Can you talk a little bit about culture? I mean, it's, you know, it's such an audacious goal to build a spaceship and a business to support space tourism and space flight.” (07:28–07:38)

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