Elon Musk on building a company: “There are periods where it’s just awful”
“A lot of times people think creating a company is going to be fun. I would say it’s really not that fun. There are periods of fun, and there are periods where it’s just awful. Particularly if you’re the CEO of the company. You actually have a distillation of all the worst problems in the company. There’s no point in spending your time on things that are going right. So you only spend your time on things that are going wrong that other people can’t take care of… the most pernicious and painful problems.”
Elon believes founders need to have a “fairly high pain threshold” and explains that starting a company is like “staring into the abyss and eating glass.”
“The staring into the abyss part is that you’re going to be constantly facing the extermination of the company because most startups fail… You’re constantly saying, okay, if I don’t get this right, the company will die. It’s going to be quite stressful. And then the eating glass part is you’ve got to work on the problems that the company needs you to work on, not the problems you want to work on. And so you end up working on problems that you’d really wish you weren’t working on… And that goes on for a long time.”
Source: @khanacademy (Apr 2013)
AI が人間の仕事を代替し、人間の価値が改めて問われている時代だからこそ、お客様からすると、どれだけ自社のことを考えて動いてくれるのかが凄く重要。
どれだけ特別に思ってくれるか、わざわざ時間と手間を割いて会いに来てくれるか、ここは本当に大事だと思う。
人対人だからこそ伝わる温度感や人間性、人間味みたいなところ。これがますます武器になる。
だから、それ以外を徹底的に AI で自動化していかないといけない。
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