Gwynne Shotwell
- Gwynne Shotwell is SpaceX's president and COO, and manages the operations of the commercial space exploration company founded by Elon Musk.
- It's grown from a futuristic idea of enabling people to live on other planets to a company with over 10,000 employees and a valuation of $74 billion.
- In May 2020, the company sent astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time as part of a contract with NASA.
- Shotwell was the 11th employee of SpaceX, and joined the company in 2002. Before that, she was at Microcosm, Inc. as space systems director.
- Since 2019, SpaceX has launched over 1,700 satellites for its Starlink high-speed internet service, which has over 100,000 customers.
