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Look at a company after about 30 years and basically everybody that was there before, is gone. You keep the same name, the same brand, but all the people are entirely different. And people are, by far, the most important factor in the capabilities of a company. And often times people just aren't really replaceable. But you have to replace them, nonetheless, and so you just end up with something entirely different, even if it has the same name.

An even better example than Boeing is the Apollo program. The degree of competence, efficiency, and speed of that program all under NASA - is completely unlike anything we've ever seen anytime before, or since. JFK gave his 'to the Moon' speech in late 1962, when our grand achievement in space had been nothing beyond on briefly sending a man to orbit just a few months earlier. Less than 7 years later (!!), the first man would set foot on the Moon. The entire Apollo program cost $179 billion over 11 years (inflation adjusted), for a total of $16 billion per year. Their latest annual budget was $25 billion.