Puri: Struggling founders must project confidence to prevent fatal panic
Shaan Puri · This Year's Best Twitter Accounts to Follow · Dec 21, 2021 · at 27:00
Sean Puri reflects on Elon Musk's historical posture during Tesla's production bottlenecks and near-bankruptcy period.
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“He's like, you know, it is in the incentive of somebody, of the captain of that ship, To go down with the ship and the whole time be saying, oh, we're so close to our destination. Basically. He was like, they're never going to come out and say, yeah, we don't know. We might not make it because then that will guarantee you don't make it because people will sell the stock. It'll put so much negative pressure on the company. It'll hurt the morale inside the company. And so you can't ever come out and say, I don't know, we might not make it. So you always have to say, make it. Of course we're going to make it. We're thriving. And like, you just hope it actually comes true.”
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