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Do you know people who work or have worked for him? I work in the clean tech industry and know several people who work(ed) for solar city or Tesla. Musk is, I h

• IG_Semmelweiss 4y ago
  For better or worse, sounds like the average startup life except perhaps with a better mission
  • boringg 4y ago
    Thats part of the sell. Tesla originally gave really low comp packages and had super long hard hours for employees under the mission status and working for Elon. For a long time it really looked like a bad deal but in the end it paid out well for employees who held onto their options, the long hour were already spent. As for the mission - seems mostly legit though I don't think Elon is motivated by climate change otherwise he wouldn't be using Natural Gas for fueling his rockets more for ability to create self sustaining energy off planet.
• jakey_bakey 4y ago
  In the Big 4 I worked with a guy who was once a project manager at Tesla. The guy wasn't super talented, but mentioned that it would ruin your week if Elon came over to you because he had a bad habit of micromanaging people. And yeah, he agreed that Elon isn't necessarily super smart but is brilliant at finding brilliant people and convincing them to work themselves half to death. Which, incidentally, is basically the main job of a startup CEO so props to him for that.