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I was the sales lady. But then when you have sales, you need, you know, to manage your customers and you need a finance function.
when we were getting our largest contract at the time, it was the cargo resupply contract. We call it CRS. And this was 2008. Elon was super busy with Tesla, quite busy at SpaceX as well. There was a lot going on and he needed a partner at the time. And I think he was trying to pick when on this side or maybe one of the other guys who had kind of taken on gobbled up more technical scope. And he asked me to do it on our way to our final negotiations for this one point six billion dollar contract
It took us a while to do it, but we did what we said we were going to do.
If the other launch providers were great, then a new entrant can't make headway, right? Because they were so entrenched. So we should have never made it. But it turns out, you know, customer service wasn't great. Rockets were incredibly expensive. And so there was that piece, right? And then the other piece was 9-11. At that time, the military was desperately looking for someone who could come in and do rapid launch.
We sold a rocket about 12 months later. Without a rocket. There wasn't a rocket.