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What's interesting about Musk is that he doesn't at all seem to be doing any of this for the money. It doesn't seem like it's greed that motivates him, the way
by mevile 10y ago
What's interesting about Musk is that he doesn't at all seem to be doing any of this for the money. It doesn't seem like it's greed that motivates him, the way you might think of other top CEOs. He's all about vision. He's an idealist with competence and resources and for better or for worse, he will probably have an impact on all of our lives. I would hope for the better, but idealism and egocentrism can create a toxic mix. So far I love everything his companies have done. I love watching the spacex videos. But we should judge him and his companies based on their accomplishments and their actions and not on the PR and media spectacles that surround him.
- dogma1138 10y agoTo be fair I doubt any top CEO does it for the money, greed is a very poor motivator.
- dyarosla 10y agoReplace any top CEO with any top founder CEO and you may be more correct- however I doubt that all CEOs, founders of their own vision or not, do not do what they do for the money. Greed perhaps is not a great motivator, but money alone is.
- maruhan2 10y agoGreed may be the wrong word to use. Certainly many successful CEOs view money as the metric for success, and those people obviously are in it for the money (success).
- lgieron 10y agoWhat about the financial CEOs who, after the US government rescued their firms with bailout, prompty paid themselves multimillion dollar bonuses with the bailout money? I think people change during the course of their life. While greed will not probably motivate you enough to rise to the top (you need other drivers such as ambition), if you've already made it to the top (and there's nowhere else to go, you're already #1 by your own metrics), you can slowly morph into a greedy bastard.
- nibs 10y agoI personally would pay to do what Musk gets to do.
- salmon30salmon 10y agoTo be entirely fair, it is very easy to not be motivated by money when you have enough to last a lifetime. Sure, there are certainly many CEOs who use money as a measure of success, but its not like Mr. Musk is living in project housing and eating microwave pizza every night. This is not to detract at all from what Mr. Musk is doing, its admirable and the world could use more people like him. However, it is important to maintain a perspective that grants that there could be a million Elon's, if only they had the resources to behave as he does.