> 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.

	▲	swiftcoder an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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