> It was a high performing organisation with few peers in corporate history Apart from the time he ran it into the ground. Musk isn't up there, Jobs isn't up

> It was a high performing organisation with few peers in corporate history Apart from the time he ran it into the ground. Musk isn't up there, Jobs isn't up there. You need a multi-decade record of strong capital allocation decisions, Musk barely has five years. Jobs had a record of making mistake after mistake for decades until the IPhone. Musk, by his own admission, made huge errors and would likely have gone bankrupt in 2017. Of those alive today: Buffett, Malone, and a handful of smaller-scale people (i.e. Leonard, Stiritz, and some firms with strong culture like 3G, potentially Costco). In most cases though, CEOs need to be saved from themselves. Tech CEOs are also some of the absolute worst...I can't think of any with very strong records (Leonard is one, but the scale is relatively small). You find far strong management teams, on average, outside tech (industrials is one area, you have quite a few companies that not only have good CEOs but very good succession). The incentives are just totally wrong in tech: you get rewarded for failing, so you end up with lots of incompetent CEOs (Pichai being one of the worst, Google generally is just a terrible shit-show).