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Elon's superlative talent is as a salesperson and as an inspiring leader. Very few engineers would come even close. Elon has probably never done much hands on
by CyberFonic 7y ago
Elon's superlative talent is as a salesperson and as an inspiring leader. Very few engineers would come even close. Elon has probably never done much hands on engineering work himself. Instead he has hundreds of very talented engineers working for him.
- api 7y agoThis is usually the case with executives but not for him, at least from several first and second hand stories I've heard. Musk doesn't do much long hours in front of a CAD program type work but he is definitely very involved in the engineering process and not just in a hiring and sales capacity. He is not just doing the "stone soup" trick. (I have yet to see stone soup actually work. I think its bullshit.) I personally don't find him that charismatic in the salesman sense, at least in his presentations. He may be different in person. I do think he has some marketing talent but I think most of it comes from his legend, and that legend has resulted from a history of shipping very impressive stuff. He does not strike me as having a lot of the type of charisma that would work minus his reputation factor. Keep in mind that he was very rich when he started SpaceX and took over the skeleton of Tesla, so he had the capital to prove himself before having to seriously raise and sell.