Jorgenson: High-growth companies compress a 10-year career into a 3-year tenure
Eric Jorgenson · How Elon Musk Solves Problems | Eric Jorgenson · Jun 17, 2026 · at 59:37
Author Eric Jorgenson and Codie Sanchez discuss whether intense employee turnover at Elon Musk's companies is inherently negative.
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“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. It just, at another company, it would take 10 years to do it, and it would look like a normal, healthy career path, and here, like, we covered that ground in three years because we're just moving more quickly, but I think the assumption that churn is always bad is something that he would reject.”
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