SpaceX is Musk doing the things he's good at, and delegating everything else. He's mostly there as the visionary and the person running R&D, with most other stu

SpaceX is Musk doing the things he's good at, and delegating everything else. He's mostly there as the visionary and the person running R&D, with most other stuff handled by Gwynne Shotwell. This combination works incredibly well. Musk regularly questions conventional wisdom and reimagines things from first principles, and then has the balls to go through with it. Channeled properly this is incredibly powerful and propels SpaceX on a trajectory far beyond their competition. Channeled improperly ... well, just look at some of his other companies.