I suspect he does this so that he can say “oh! I’m so sorry! It must have slipped our collective minds over here at spaceX. I aught to give you even more money!”
“Tell you what: how about i buy your entire company ? That’s right, that’s right; it’s your lucky day, you little dickensian urchin. Your teensy tiny little venture has caught my eye. It would be a great addition to my expanding engineering portfolio.”
Driving the contractor firm to the brink of desperation improves their bargaining power because the guy has to choose to either 1) continue to not be paid or 2) have his employees starve for a bit longer, probably quitting en masse when he can’t pay them.
Then SpaceX can just plop down launchpads by themselves because they have a whatever-you-call-that. A spin-out? A contracting division with expertise in spacepad construction.
A spin-off is the opposite actually, it’s when you let a part of your company leave it (usually when it’s something not 100% relevant to your core business)
I suspect he does this so that he can say “oh! I’m so sorry! It must have slipped our collective minds over here at spaceX. I aught to give you even more money!”
“Tell you what: how about i buy your entire company ? That’s right, that’s right; it’s your lucky day, you little dickensian urchin. Your teensy tiny little venture has caught my eye. It would be a great addition to my expanding engineering portfolio.”
Driving the contractor firm to the brink of desperation improves their bargaining power because the guy has to choose to either 1) continue to not be paid or 2) have his employees starve for a bit longer, probably quitting en masse when he can’t pay them.
Then SpaceX can just plop down launchpads by themselves because they have a whatever-you-call-that. A spin-out? A contracting division with expertise in spacepad construction.
the spacex that keeps doing worse and worse with each rocket launch?
A spin-off is the opposite actually, it’s when you let a part of your company leave it (usually when it’s something not 100% relevant to your core business)