a16z's Katherine Boyle: Musk's real legacy is the thousands of companies SpaceX alumni are building
XFreeze · x · 2026-10-31
a16z partner Katherine Boyle argues Elon Musk's biggest legacy may not be rockets but the hundreds or thousands of companies founded by people trained at SpaceX. Alumni of the "school of Elon Musk" learned manufacturing at the highest level and are now building companies in defense, drones, hypersonics, and entirely new industries SpaceX itself doesn't touch — an spillover effect she expects to unfold over the next 25 years.
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