In my experience its quite common for both to be true- the founder is extremely talented and the business cannot survive without them, but also they have person

In my experience its quite common for both to be true- the founder is extremely talented and the business cannot survive without them, but also they have personality problems or ego issues that are allowed to run uncheked precisely because they deliver so much value. I have listened to Elon interviews enough to be pretty sure of this. What I am not sure of is if this strategy of running twitter like a manufacturing org where workers are interchangeable and disposable will work out.