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Some startups working in the space sector are taking advantage of Musk's move to SpaceX's headquarters to compete for talent, as some SpaceX employees are disappointed with Musk's relocation plan.

On the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, asteroid mining company Astroforge Inc. responded to Musk's post announcing the relocation plan, saying that their company is hiring and is headquartered in Seal Beach, California, about 25 miles from SpaceX's current headquarters in Hawthorne, California.

Stanislas Maximin, CEO of French aerospace company Latitude, publicly called out SpaceX employees. He responded to Musk's post:

If SpaceX employees don't share these values ​​and want to join an inclusive and ambitious rocket company, his company is open to them. The company is located in a livable city near Paris. "We take care of everything for you: moving out, visas, full healthcare, your house/apartment, finding a job for your spouse... Some people have already taken this step, join them."

Maximin also sent another message after the above reply, saying that he would personally provide 12 bottles of champagne for every engineer who left SpaceX.

What caused these startups to speak out was a post by Musk on X on Tuesday, July 16, Eastern Time. Because of dissatisfaction with a new California law regarding transgender children in public schools, Musk decided to move the headquarters of X and SpaceX out of California. The bill aims to prevent schools from disclosing their sexual orientation or gender identity to parents without their consent.

Musk compared the new bill to the straw that broke the camel's back, saying that because the law and many other laws enacted before it have hit families and businesses, SpaceX will now move its headquarters from Hawthorne, California to Starbase in Texas.

Previously, Musk changed the registered place of several of his companies because he was dissatisfied with the judge's ruling that his salary plan as Tesla's CEO was invalid. In June this year, he decided to move Tesla's registered place from Delaware to Texas. So far, Musk has decided to move the headquarters of three of his companies to Texas.

Currently, thousands of SpaceX employees build SpaceX's main Falcon 9 rocket, Dragon spacecraft and some StarShield satellites at its headquarters near Los Angeles, California. In the past few years, SpaceX has built a major office facility called Starbase in southern Texas. This base in Boca Chica is the main location for SpaceX to build and launch its large interstellar spacecraft rocket system. According to Musk's plan, X's headquarters will move from San Francisco, California to Austin, the capital of Texas.

It is not clear how the two companies' jobs or facilities in California will be transferred to Texas. X just rented out several floors of its main headquarters building last week, and the media expects that X will still retain some space for employees to use.

According to the media, Musk has long had a love-hate relationship with California, and he is annoyed by the state's excessive intervention. He has also criticized the state for being slow to innovate and delaying construction projects through excessive regulation. But he has been hesitant about whether to completely abandon California because he wants to continue to use Silicon Valley and its technical talent to carry out artificial intelligence and engineering work.

The California Governor's Office responded to Musk's post announcing the relocation plans on Tuesday, noting that despite moving its headquarters to Texas in 2021, Tesla will eventually expand in California, moving the company's global engineering and artificial intelligence (AI) headquarters to California.