SpaceX IPO Puts Elon Musk's 'Extreme' Ownership to the Test

It's how the company has worked from the start. Brian Manning encountered SpaceX's culture of extreme ownership from day one as an engineer at the rocket maker . After a one-hour onboarding session a decade ago, he got his first assignment: Design a small part by the next day. "The way I looked at it is having very clear responsibility, autonomy, and accountability," says Manning, who aced the task and spent about two years at the company. "Rather than hiring people and telling them how to do it, they give people full ownership to make things happen."