How Elon Musk operates his business.

28 May 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is an excerpt from a YouTube video titled "How Elon Musk operates his business." The clip (posted 2024-05-28) features a spoken discussion—likely from an interview or commentary—where the speaker (labeled SPEAKER A) describes Elon Musk's management style: high pay for engineers combined with very demanding expectations (e.g., sudden relocation directives, late-night work, on-call expectations), citing examples like engineers being paid ~$500K+ yet expected to be hardcore and available at odd hours.

Elon. Yes. So have you read his book? No. The new book. I mean, it's super entertaining, right? But like the one thing that sticks out to me is like he overpays everyone, but he expects people to be hardcore, right? So you could be on the other side in Florida, right? And he might say, everybody, all SpaceX employees, you're coming to Texas tomorrow. You're all coming tomorrow. You guys will figure out your accommodations, whatever. And then if people aren't working at 9 p.m. on a Friday, he'll be like, where's everybody? Get everyone in. It's pretty hardcore. I can never imagine myself doing that. But I'm saying like, that is an example of paying your engineers, you know, $500K plus and expecting them to be on call.