Elon Musk

“The people who work for Elon and the people who work for Steve, they often report after the fact that they did the best work of their lives. And they often report that, you know, they could have had difficult, you know, Interactions along the way, or they coul…”

“He's polarized the market very deliberately, you know, in the same way that I think a lot of great entrepreneurs do, which is, you know, people that either love him or hate him, they either love the products, hate the products, That's very helpful from a busin…”

“Elon's companies have always been very capital efficient and like build a bad one and then build a good one. And so the boring company bought a commercial tunnel boring machine before they started developing their own. Tesla had the master plan where they buil…”

“Number three is it's gonna be a cult of personality, and it's gonna be a cult of personality not just inside the company, but outside the company. And we're not gonna, you know, we're not gonna spend any money on marketing. We're not gonna put any time at IR. …”

“I think he's a better business person than he is inventor. He's amazing at both, but like, people don't understand, like, he just naturally understands, like, just get the cost down, and that's very hard to compete against.”

“If you interpret Henry Kaiser, Howard Hughes, Elon Musk, they decide that their circle of competence is not rockets or roads or what have you, but is engineering, and that engineering competence can be broadly applied to many potential domains.”

“If I see someone who is pretty successful do a series of crazy things over and over again, and yet they work out every single time, either they have root access, To the simulation. Or their model of reality is better than mine in some key way that I don't unde…”

“One of the anomalous things about Elon's companies is that they're now quite old and quite large, and they haven't, they've got other organizational pathologies, but they haven't had that problem.”