Comment by s1artibartfast

7 hours ago

Sure, that is no accident. Elon seeks out markets ripe for disruptive engineering innovation.

His approach probably wouldn't work as well if you threw him in as CEO of a random company like JC penny or Pizza Hut. Other CEO's are good at different things - like squeezing the extra 0.1% out of a 40 year old brand or product line

Now I'm thinking about him firing the pizza cooks and bringing in a crack team of engineers to redesign the concept of Pizza from first principles.

> Elon seeks out markets ripe for disruptive engineering innovation.

I.e. products that everyone else dismisses as impractical/impossible. And then people complain when he's late delivering the impossible products.

That's basically what happened at DOGE, there was a hilarious quote from one of the software engineers he brought in that they thought the government would be full of useless and overpaid people, like silicon valley.

  • I mean, they're not wrong, but it's a harder problem for real reasons. A lot of over constrained problems leaning to bizarre Solutions