Elon Musk2002年创业初期面试SpaceX VP Hans Koenigsmann趣事等

1. Hans Koenigsmann是德裔，在德国取得PhD并工作过一段时间。2002年SpaceX初创时期，加入公司。由此，可见美国尖端制造业的人才来源。

对制造业感兴趣的孩子，是否可以考虑德国留学。

He has a PhD in aerospace engineering and production from the University of Bremen, earned before joining SpaceX.

He’s served as one of SpaceX’s most respected leaders and a jack-of-all-trades: Overseeing launch readiness, inspecting the quality of rocket engineering and development, analyzing risks, and identifying and resolving issues found before and after launches.

SpaceX has relied upon Koenigsmann’s technical expertise from the very first rocket it developed, the Falcon 1, for which he designed the avionics. For Falcon 1 launches, he served as the chief launch engineer — a position which has the final say to the launch director of whether or not the rocket is good to go.

 

 2. 下面摘录2段，关于elon musk对他面试和德国口音的英语趣事，源于2013年1月15日NASA口述历史。整个记录生动真实，值得细读，了解成功创业公司的成长过程。

历史人物和事件如何记录，这也是一个参考。

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He came by my house for the interview, because we had no office, nothing. We did the interview in my living room mostly, which I thought was really ingenious because it tells you so much more if you go to somebody’s house. You can look at the pictures, the books, everything. SpaceX started right around the same time, and I was the fourth technical employee of SpaceX. Since there were a couple other people that he employed—pilot, driver, cook—I was technically their number seven. I was in there pretty early.

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Hackler: Do you feel like you used your experience from Germany in helping found SpaceX, and set the organizational culture since it was so new?

Koenigsmann: Well I think I have a diverse background, and so yes, it certainly it helped me. I think you’ve got to get used to working here when you’re coming from some other place, but that’s just natural. It’s nothing unusual there. My German accent helps in presentations. Funny as it is, but I’ve used it. When I say, “This will work,” it is more convincing than other accents for some reason.

1.完整记录：

https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/C3PO/KoenigsmannH/KoenigsmannH_1-15-13.htm?

2. 简介：https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-koenigsmann-2a141b5

3. 报道： https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/spacex-vp-hans-koenigsmann-to-retire-elon-musks-fourth-hire.html