Revel's Scott Morton: from coding rockets at SpaceX to building a $1B hardware software platform

Key points

Key takeaways from the The Generalist interview with Revel founder and CEO Scott Morton (September 2026):

Ex-SpaceX engineer building a $1B startup. Scott Morton spent nearly a decade at SpaceX building control software for Falcon 9 and Starship before founding Revel in 2024. The company is a software platform for testing and controlling complex hardware systems.

Coding rockets with Elon. Morton shares his experience building flight-critical software at SpaceX under Elon Musk's direction, and how that experience shaped his approach to founding Revel.

Hardware test and control. Revel provides a unified software platform for hardware test and control — addressing a gap in the toolchain for complex hardware development that Morton experienced firsthand at SpaceX.

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