Eric Jorgenson
CEO, Scribe Media. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Eric Jorgenson is best known for writing books on prominent tech figures, including The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and The Book of Elon. Beyond his publishing work at Scribe Media, he runs the venture fund Rolling Fun and hosts the Smart Friends podcast.
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1said about them ↓ Everything Eric Jorgenson said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Jorgenson: Tesla and SpaceX are becoming the biggest companies on Earth
“To do both of these, like, generation-defining, singular companies that were on nobody's radar, that are now, I think, on the way to being the biggest companies on Earth.”
Jorgenson: Musk solved a months-long Starship bottleneck in an overnight surge
“They'd spent months trying to, like, weld a dome for Starship that fit over the, this, like stainless steel cone that was gonna go over the top of the rocket, and they hadn't gotten it done for months, and he just showed up at the site, was like, we're gonna h…”
Jorgenson: Musk escalates status updates to hourly 24/7 emails during bottlenecks
“The status updates escalate with how serious the bottleneck is. So weekly cadence for, you know, maybe a normal bottleneck. It'll go to daily, like a daily, 24 hour sync on whatever the bottleneck is to run the algorithm on it. For one week, one guy, I don't k…”
Jorgenson: 99.9% of organizations err on firing employees too slowly
“And what I realized is like erring on the side of firing too quickly is actually so rare. And so we have such like an emotional reaction to it. Oh, it's unfair, but actually 99.9% of organizations on the planet are erring on the side of firing too slowly.”
Jorgenson: No other nine-figure founder would risk total ruin like Musk
“And I can't name any other entrepreneurs that had nine figures of net worth and, you know, being as renowned and publicly sort of evaluated as he was, would take that risk of going back to zero just to fulfill the mission.”
Jorgenson: Musk dictates you must remove enough to add 10% back
“He says, if you're not adding back 10% of what you removed, you're not removing enough.”
Jorgenson: Electric cars at scale would not exist without Elon Musk
“Social networks would have happened without Zuckerberg. Search engines would have happened without Larry and Sergey. Pick your thing. We would have had operating systems without Bill Gates. We would have computers without jobs. It's not clear that we would hav…”
Jorgenson: Companies should reject the trilemma because speed lowers costs
“Reject the trilemma because speed lowers cost, and so if you hold the quality bar and just move faster, you should be able to lower costs.”
Jorgenson: Leaders must prioritize mission-level empathy over individual feelings
“What Elon does, which is so He has a knack for it, but anyone can do it in the proper context is have empathy at the level of the mission, not empathy at the level of the individual.”
Jorgenson: High-growth companies compress a 10-year career into a 3-year tenure
“You know, the rule of thumb in startups is like you, you're a different organization every time you triple in headcount. Or roughly an order of magnitude, right? And so, what he says is like, what looks like a three-year churn is actually a full tour of duty. …”
Jorgenson: Elon Musk's five-step engineering algorithm must be followed in strict order
“The algorithm is five steps, and the order is very important. So the first step is to question every requirement. He says, no matter how many requirements there are, question them, eliminate as many as you can. Every existing requirement must have an individua…”
Jorgenson: Elon Musk is the most leveraged person alive
“The value of a minute of good thinking from Elon is like a million dollars a minute or more. Like that is just a wild, he's the most leveraged person alive.”
Jorgenson: Elon Musk is the most leveraged person alive
“He's like the most leveraged person alive.”
Jorgenson: Hard work alone yields only a 2x to 3x output improvement
“Hard work is, you know, respectable and admired and yes, we should work hard, but hard work can only get you a two or three X improvement in what you're doing. And if you don't learn to improve how you're working or the elegance or improve your leverage, like …”
Jorgenson: Advanced generalists inevitably become unique specialists
“The degree that you specialize, even if you set out to be a generalist, you will end up becoming a specialist. A sufficiently, like, advanced generalist becomes a unique specialist”
Jorgenson: Winning competitive status games yields an epiphany accessible immediately
“If you grind and beat yourself up, and have this brutal internal monologue, and, like, Right, all the way to, like, winning the game, finally achieving all these things that you hope to the whole time, you have the same epiphany that you can have right now, wh…”
Jorgenson: Emotional detachment can be just as effective as high-stress striving
“You can probably be equally effective by just, like by having emotional detachment, rather than having, like, being all in, all consumed, emotionally, like, wringing yourself out every day, feeling massive stress about everything that you're doing”
Jorgenson: Elon Musk expanded the scale of entrepreneurial ambition
“He just totally changed what we think of as reasonable or impactful in entrepreneurship and company building. So not just the playbook has changed, but like the targets that people can shoot at has changed.”
Jorgenson: Do not start a company if you can imagine quitting
“Like if you can imagine quitting what you're doing, don't start. If the fear is stronger than the desire to achieve the mission, then maybe you haven't picked the right mission.”
Jorgenson: Political involvement inevitably creates enemies and reputational attacks
“Since he got involved in politics, I think it's very hard to be involved in politics at all without Making enemies. Like, it's just such a zero-sum thing that there's people just really eager to distort and take down reputations, and there's people that take s…”
Jorgenson: Most CEOs get trapped in minutiae instead of attacking bottlenecks
“And so many CEOs that we know, so many operators are like, well, I've got a board meeting to prepare for. I've got a weekly meeting. I've got a status update. I've got to do this. I've got to do that. And they're sort of caught in the like minutia and maintena…”
Jorgenson: Musk stacked Starship months early to generate public momentum
“He famously stacked Starship, like, months before it was even close to launch, and it wasn't because it needed to be done, it wasn't because it was a bottleneck, but he said now people started sharing photos of this absolutely behemoth rocket, and it started t…”
Jorgenson: Elon Musk demands order-of-magnitude targets over incremental 20% goals
“One of his things is like order of magnitude goals. You know, you're not gonna hear him ever say like, I would like you to increase that by 20%, please. You'd be like, drop that. The cost of that should be one percent of what it is. Or I want you to increase t…”
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