Elon had an insane talent of finding the right people with wild moonshot ideas to run his companies while he was getting the credit and the limelight.

Then he got older, got into politics and fully bought into the marketing about himself. He thinks he's a genius and that everything he touches turns to gold.

Well... Turns out stuff works as long as he is out of the loop and doesn't make any direct decisions.

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swiftcoder 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Turns out stuff works as long as he is out of the loop and doesn't make any direct decisions

This is not unique to Musk - many tech CEOs learn this the hard way when they start meddling in the day-to-day. Bezos built an empire, but the projects he took personal control of (like FirePhone) tended to be unmitigated disasters.

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MrBuddyCasino an hour ago | parent [-]

He personally co-designed S3.

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		My understanding (admittedly second-hand), is that he handed down the famous "malloc for the internet" requirement, and mostly left the team to their own devices past that point

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tropolowikyu 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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