Seyka Mejeur on Just Rocket Science Show: Inside the Space Talent Factory | Hiring the Engineers Behind the Space Boom

Is SpaceX quietly building the entire space economy – one engineer at a time? 

In Episode 23 of The Just Rocket Science Show, host Anu sits down with Seyka Mejeur, CEO of AdAstra – the firm behind many of the executive and deep-technical hires powering today’s hard-tech startups across space, defense, climate, embodied AI, and biotech, from pre-seed through Series C. We get into how SpaceX became the “talent factory” minting the founders and engineers behind the whole industry, why “defense” went from a dealbreaker to a draw for top talent, the hiring mistakes that quietly sink early startups, the new “prefounder” equity scramble ahead of the SpaceX IPO, and how candidates should actually value startup equity. 

Guest: Seyka Mejeur — CEO, AdAstra 

Host: Anu — The Just Rocket Science Show

*Summary credit to Anu @ Just Rocket Science Show