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Elon Musk on Running Tesla Motors and SpaceX
- ericd 16y agoThis whole article was light on hard content, but had some great ideas expressed well. For example: Professional managers—MBA CEOs—are not very creative or adaptable, and their skills don't suit a startup. Business is like a multidimensional probabilistic chessboard. The rules aren't set, and the same moves don't always make you win. A lot of people can be really good in a set-piece battle; my biggest differentiating skill is I can invent new pieces. expresses an idea that most can't articulate well, but seems intuitively true.
- jwuphysics 16y agoI agree that this idea seems intuitively true, but I don't think there is a problem articulating it. It's simply that many will find it offensive that a scientist can be better than an MBA student at managing a company. Then again, Musk majored in both physics and business.
- Jayasimhan 16y agoliked his comment on Patents.
- lhnn 16y agoAgreed. I'm glad that he sees foreign companies as competitors... I'm not itching to get in a fight with China or Russia, but they're frenemies. We shouldn't be giving them any more than we have to.
- rch 16y agoWell, I'm on board. I knew the name, but until now I didn't know how impressed I should be. Thanks.
- Joakal 16y agoCommercial from SpaceX on Mars mission: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6EruPdoXY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6EruPdoXY
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- ianl 16y agoThe article just ended, felt like the author got half way done and just stopped.
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- torpor 16y agoAnd that, son, is how you get to Mars. And don't come back.
- mkramlich 16y agothis quote was golden: "Business is like a multidimensional probabilistic chessboard. The rules aren't set, and the same moves don't always make you win. A lot of people can be really good in a set-piece battle; my biggest differentiating skill is I can invent new pieces." Really shows you how he thinks. And I think he's correct too. And life is like that, in general, not just business. One big multidimensional probabilistic chessboard. Or perhaps a Rube Goldberg machine, where parts of the machine are not completely ludicrous. Part of the reason why I'm building a startup that simulates life. Because making models of multidimensional probabilistic Rube Goldbergian chessboards is fun!
- wilschroter 16y agoOne thing I love about what this guy has done is the fact that he actually sees this stuff through. He didn't just talk about these ideas - he made them happen. It's one thing to do that for a Web site that two guys build in a room. It's quite another to literally put a rocket in orbit.