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> very narrow He applied it to Tesla and SpaceX, which are very very different.

• s1artibartfast 8d ago
  Sure, that is no accident. Elon seeks out markets ripe for disruptive engineering innovation. His approach probably wouldn't work as well if you threw him in as CEO of a random company like JC penny or Pizza Hut. Other CEO's are good at different things - like squeezing the extra 0.1% out of a 40 year old brand or product line Now I'm thinking about him firing the pizza cooks and bringing in a crack team of engineers to redesign the concept of Pizza from first principles.
  • WalterBright 8d ago
    > Elon seeks out markets ripe for disruptive engineering innovation. I.e. products that everyone else dismisses as impractical/impossible. And then people complain when he's late delivering the impossible products.
    • s1artibartfast 8d ago
      Yes
  • nixon_why69 8d ago
    That's basically what happened at DOGE, there was a hilarious quote from one of the software engineers he brought in that they thought the government would be full of useless and overpaid people, like silicon valley.
    • s1artibartfast 8d ago
      I mean, they're not wrong, but it's a harder problem for real reasons. A lot of over constrained problems leaning to bizarre Solutions