Comment by Aurornis
14 days ago
> The writing style sounds more like a tech bro describing some weekend conquest, and is wholly unappealing to most of the space industry (or at least the ones with decision making authority). Your CMGs were “locked in,” several times you “nailed it,” and so on.
This is on the company blog. It ends with a call to action to either subscribe to their mailing list or explore their careers page.
It has the right tone for the goal. Tone policing isn’t helpful. The authors are even here answering questions which is very nice of them.
> Tone policing isn’t helpful.
Yes it is, these are YC alums. A significant portion of that program is learning how to pitch to investors. Are you saying that YC wastes this effort? The goal of this post might be to recruit engineers to hire, but it is public facing and part of their image that anyone might read, including future customers. It doesn’t help to recruit good engineers but be unable to sell because the industry expects strict professionalism.