Fmr SpaceX CIO Ken Venner on Elon, Gwynne, & SpaceX Playbook

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"Elon Musk was really good about keeping the mission as a forefront focus for what we were doing, & just energized everyone to get it done." Now Chief Tech & Product Officer, Senra Systems Ken Venner spent 11 years at Broadcom, joining at 1,000 people and $400 million in revenue and leaving at 10,000 employees and $8.6 billion, across 52 acquisitions. Then he became CIO of SpaceX, where Elon hired him to build the digital nervous system for a 21st century rocket company. The result was Warp Drive, the custom operating system that helped scale SpaceX from about 1 booster a year and 1,000 employees to 40 boosters and 9,000 employees. He recently joined Senra Systems as Chief Technology and…