A former SpaceX CIO (Ken Venner) explains why AI let him run his new team with 6 people instead of 175

Ken Venner spent 11 years scaling Broadcom from $400M to $8.6B, then became CIO of SpaceX, then joined a startup called Senra Systems as CTPO.

At SpaceX, his core platform team was 175 people. At Senra, the equivalent job takes 6.

His explanation isn't "AI replaced people." It's that AI collapsed the coordination overhead that used to require headcount just to keep humans in sync with each other — and once that overhead disappears, the team that's left is smaller by design, not by cut.

If you're in a corporate engineering or platform role and haven't clocked this shift yet: this is worth ten minutes of your attention. It's not a hypothetical.

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