{"id":366664,"date":"2025-08-23T07:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366664\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:25:13","slug":"i-have-never-says-elon-musk-on-resignation-of-kairan-quazi-the-engineer-who-joined-spacex-when-he-was-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/366664\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I have never &#8230;&#8217;, says Elon Musk on resignation of Kairan Quazi, the engineer who joined SpaceX when he was 14 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kairan-Quazi-left-Elon-Musk-Right.jpg\" alt=\"'I have never ...', says Elon Musk on resignation of Kairan Quazi, the engineer who joined SpaceX when he was 14 years\" title=\"Elon Musk on resignation of Kairan Quazi, the engineer who joined SpaceX when he was 14 years\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Elon Musk on resignation of Kairan Quazi, the engineer who joined SpaceX when he was 14 years <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> has responded to the resignation of his teen prodigy Kairan Quazi from his space company SpaceX. \u201cFirst time I\u2019ve ever heard of him,\u201d the tech billionaire wrote on X (formerly Twitter). Kairan Quazi joined <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/spacex\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> in 2023 when was 14. A \u201crare company,\u201d Quazi then said, which didn\u2019t use his age as an \u201carbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability.\u201d His departure from SpaceX marks a shift from aerospace to the fast-paced world of quantitative finance, where he will join Citadel Securities in New York as a developer.In an interview with Business Insider, Kairan Quazi said, \u201cAfter two years at SpaceX, I felt ready to take on new challenges and expand my skill set into a different high-performance environment.\u201d&#8221;Quant finance offers a pretty rare combination: the complexity and intellectual challenge that AI research also provides, but with a much faster pace,&#8221; Kairan Quazi explained to Business Insider. &#8220;At Citadel Securities, I&#8217;ll be able to see measurable impact in days, not months or years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who is Kairan Quazi<\/p>\n<p>As previously stated, Kairan Quazi is a 16-year-old prodigy who became the youngest graduate in the 170-year history of Santa Clara University, completing his degree in computer science and engineering at just 14. Soon after, he joined Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX as a software engineer, working on the Starlink project to improve satellite internet accuracy. <\/p>\n<p>When Kairan Quazi slammed LinkedIn<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Kairan Quazi slammed proffesional networking platform LinkedIn as \u201cprimitive\u201d for considering him too young for the platform. He then shared an Instagram post with a screenshot of a message from LinkedIn informing him his account had been restricted. \u201cWe\u2019re excited by your enthusiasm, energy, and focus. We can\u2019t wait to see what you do in the world,\u201d the message read, adding \u201cBecause you currently do not meet the age eligibility criteria to join, we have restricted your account.\u201d \u201cYou are welcome back on the platform once you turn 16 or older,\u201d the message continued. Criticizing the professional networking platform, the 16-year-old then argued that \u201ctests are not used to measure mastery, but the ability to regurgitate\u201d adding \u201cAge, privilege, and unconscious (sometimes even conscious) biases are used to gatekeep opportunities\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>UPI Transactions Getting Safer: Big Change Explained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk on resignation of Kairan Quazi, the engineer who joined SpaceX when he was 14 years Elon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[126138,295,126136,128396,3859,70,413,1603,16,15,128395],"class_list":{"0":"post-366664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-citadel-securities","9":"tag-elon-musk","10":"tag-kairan-quazi","11":"tag-kairan-quazi-slams-linkedin","12":"tag-linkedin","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-spacex","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-who-is-kairan-quazi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115076892252521057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}