Elon Musk2002年創業初期麵試SpaceX VP Hans Koenigsmann趣事等

1. Hans Koenigsmann是德裔，在德國取得PhD並工作過一段時間。2002年SpaceX初創時期，加入公司。由此，可見美國尖端製造業的人才來源。

對製造業感興趣的孩子，是否可以考慮德國留學。

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. 下麵摘錄2段，關於elon musk對他麵試和德國口音的英語趣事，源於2013年1月15日NASA口述曆史。整個記錄生動真實，值得細讀，了解成功創業公司的成長過程。

曆史人物和事件如何記錄，這也是一個參考。

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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.完整記錄：

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

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

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