Eric Siu explains how Elon Musk breaks the typical rule of focus by placing operators in charge of companies while he personally tackles the top 20% of problems that drive 80% of impact. Musk travels to fix these critical issues each week, an unconventional approach Siu wouldn't recommend to most entrepreneurs.
How Elon breaks the rule of focus. If you think about it, SpaceX—he's got an operator running it. I believe her name is Gwyn. You have Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X. So for the vast majority of them, he has an operator in there. All he does for each week is he focuses on the major problem for each one. I'm just going to focus on that 20% that drives the 80%, and that's it. And he just goes around his jet fixing these things, right? I don't recommend this for 99.99999% of entrepreneurs, but if you want to do it, this is how he does it. I believe it is time to go.
