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Vishu Bheda
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Medial • 8m
Elon runs six multi billion-dollar companies simultaneously (SpaceX, Tesla, X, xAI, Neuralink, and Boring Company) Most founders can’t run one. Walter Isaacson (who spent a year shadowing Elon and wrote his biography) explains ‘How Elon does it’ on a podcast: 1. Elon runs his companies with a strict no BS policy. No BS meetings, teams, processes, rules, or projects. Removes all excess so teams can focus on the only thing that matters - building a great product. 2. Elon hates large teams Small team = Small meetings = More work done. He believes small teams have the intensity and focus which big teams lack. 3. Chase speed Elon frequently kicks off intense efforts he calls stunts, where he sets a impossible deadline and forces the team to achieve it 4. Accountability Elon would write names of the engineers on the car/rocket components they were responsible to design. This gives them a sense of pride, responsibility and ownership that’s very difficult to achieve any other way.
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