MARC ANDREESSEN: ELON SOLVES PROBLEMS FASTER THAN OTHER COMPANIES ORGANIZE MEETINGS
“Elon has developed an operating method that is very unusual by modern standards.
The top line thing is this incredible devotion from the leader of the company to fully, deeply understand what the company does, to be completely knowledgeable about every aspect of it, and to be in the trenches and talking directly to the people who do the work, deeply understanding the issues and being the lead problem-solver in the organization.
Basically, Elon shows up every week at each of his companies.
He identifies the biggest problem that the company's having that week, and he fixes it.
He does that every week for 52 weeks in a row, so each of his companies has solved the 52 biggest problems in that year.
Most other large companies are still having the planning meeting for the pre-planning meeting for the board meeting, for the presentation, with the compliance review and the legal review.
So it's this level of both an incredible intellectual capability coupled with an incredible force of personality, a moral authority, an execution capability, a focus on fundamentals that is just really amazing to watch.”
Interview with Chris Williamson, December 14, 2024, @pmarca
With all due respect to Gordon Gekko, when it comes to investing it is not greed but fear that is good. Fear creates opportunity and a favorable balance between risk and reward. Greed inevitably leads to poor decision making and chasing higher risk investments with little reward.
European natural gas prices now 14x those in the US. Does German manufacturing work at these prices? Will ordinary people be able to afford their electricity bills? The consequences of this war will be far reaching well beyond the borders of Ukraine and the refugee crisis.
@JoeBiden Tesla has created over 50,000 US jobs building electric vehicles & is investing more than double GM + Ford combined
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We preemptively thank for their service the Senior Associate at McKinsey who will be tasked with finding the metaverse synergies between Call of Duty and LinkedIn.
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