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Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk: “I think probably the single biggest question in all of business right now is: why don't more CEOs operate the way that he does?” "The top-line thing is just this incredible devotion from the leader of the company to fully, deeply understand what the... company does, and to be completely knowledgeable about every aspect of it." "To be in the trenches and talking directly to the people who do the work, deeply understanding the issues, and being the key, lead problem solver in the organization." "What Elon does is—he shows up every week at each of his companies, he identifies the biggest problem that the company's having that week, and he fixes it. He does that every week for 52 weeks in a row. And then each of his companies has solved the 52 biggest problems that year, in that year." "The side effect of it is—he attracts many of the best people in the world to work with him. Because if you work with Elon, the expectations are through the roof in terms of your level of performance." Source: Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 on Chris Williamsonshow more

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193,027 次观看 • 1 年前

Marc Andreessen: Elon inspires incredible loyalty from his employees because they know he'll sit all night with them to solve a problem. “Elon actually delegates almost everything. He's not involved in most of the things that his companies are doing. He's involved in the thing that is the biggest problem right now until that thing is fixed. And then, he doesn't have to be involved in it anymore, he can go focus on the next thing that's the biggest problem for that company right now. In manufacturing, there's this concept of the bottleneck. In any manufacturing chain, there's always some bottleneck, something that is keeping the manufacturing line from running the way that it's supposed to. Whatever the bottleneck, it's holding everything up. The job number one is to remove that bottleneck and get everything flowing again. I think Elon basically has universalized that concept and he basically looks at every company like it's some sort of conceptual assembly line. I don't need to manage everything else because everything else, by definition, is running better than that. I can go focus on that. A lot of CEOs, especially non-technical CEOs, would really struggle to implement his method. When he identifies the bottleneck, he goes and he talks to the line engineers who understand the technical nature of the bottleneck. If it's people on a manufacturing line, he's talking to people directly on the line. Or if that's people in a software development group, he's talking to the people actually writing the code. He's not asking the VP of Engineering to ask the Director of Engineering to ask the manager to ask the individual contributor to write a report that's to be reviewed in three weeks. He doesn't do that. He would throw them all out of the window. There's just no way he would do that. He goes and personally finds the engineer who actually has the knowledge about the thing, and then he sits in the room with that engineer and fixes the problem with them. This is why he inspires such incredible loyalty, especially from the technical people who he works with. They're like, wow, if I'm up against a problem I don't know how to solve, freaking Elon Musk is going to show up in his Gulfstream jet, and he's going to sit with me overnight in front of the keyboard or in front of the manufacturing line, and he's going to help me figure this out.” Interview of Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 by Chris Williamson on Youtube, December 14, 2024

Marc Andreessen: Elon inspires incredible loyalty from his employees because they know he'll sit all night with them to solve a problem. “Elon actually delegates almost everything. He's not involved in most of the things that his companies are doing. He's involved in the thing that is the biggest problem right now until that thing is fixed. And then, he doesn't have to be involved in it anymore, he can go focus on the next thing that's the biggest problem for that company right now. In manufacturing, there's this concept of the bottleneck. In any manufacturing chain, there's always some bottleneck, something that is keeping the manufacturing line from running the way that it's supposed to. Whatever the bottleneck, it's holding everything up. The job number one is to remove that bottleneck and get everything flowing again. I think Elon basically has universalized that concept and he basically looks at every company like it's some sort of conceptual assembly line. I don't need to manage everything else because everything else, by definition, is running better than that. I can go focus on that. A lot of CEOs, especially non-technical CEOs, would really struggle to implement his method. When he identifies the bottleneck, he goes and he talks to the line engineers who understand the technical nature of the bottleneck. If it's people on a manufacturing line, he's talking to people directly on the line. Or if that's people in a software development group, he's talking to the people actually writing the code. He's not asking the VP of Engineering to ask the Director of Engineering to ask the manager to ask the individual contributor to write a report that's to be reviewed in three weeks. He doesn't do that. He would throw them all out of the window. There's just no way he would do that. He goes and personally finds the engineer who actually has the knowledge about the thing, and then he sits in the room with that engineer and fixes the problem with them. This is why he inspires such incredible loyalty, especially from the technical people who he works with. They're like, wow, if I'm up against a problem I don't know how to solve, freaking Elon Musk is going to show up in his Gulfstream jet, and he's going to sit with me overnight in front of the keyboard or in front of the manufacturing line, and he's going to help me figure this out.” Interview of Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 by Chris Williamson on Youtube, December 14, 2024

ELON CLIPS

7,402,831 次观看 • 1 年前

Marc Andreessen explains the "Elon Method" of leadership, and it completely contradicts how most CEOs operate today. Most leaders get bogged down trying to manage every single moving part of their business. But according to Andreessen, Elon's approach is actually the exact opposite: he delegates almost everything. He isn't involved in 99% of what his companies are doing on a daily basis. Instead, his entire focus is hunting for one specific thing: The Bottleneck. In any manufacturing chain, there is always a bottleneck keeping the line from running the way it's supposed to. It could be a lack of raw materials at the beginning, or a shortage of warehouse space at the end. Whatever it is, that bottleneck is holding everything up. Job number one is to remove it and get things flowing again. Elon has universalized this concept. He looks at every company like it's a conceptual assembly line—sometimes a literal one making cars and rockets. He knows that on any given week, there is guaranteed to be one main bottleneck holding his people back. So, what’s the secret to his management paradox? He relentlessly micromanages the solution to that one specific problem. He doesn't need to manage everything else because, by definition, the rest of the company is running better than the bottleneck. Once it's fixed, he moves on to the next biggest problem. But here is the part where most non-technical CEOs would completely fail trying to replicate this method: When Elon identifies the bottleneck, he has zero patience for bureaucracy. He doesn't ask the VP of Engineering to ask the Director to ask the Manager to ask the individual contributor to write a report to be reviewed in three weeks. He would throw that entire chain of command out the window. Instead, he bypasses the middleman completely. He goes straight to the manufacturing line or the software group, personally finds the exact line engineer who actually understands the technical nature of the bottleneck, sits in a room with them, and fixes the problem together.

Marc Andreessen explains the "Elon Method" of leadership, and it completely contradicts how most CEOs operate today. Most leaders get bogged down trying to manage every single moving part of their business. But according to Andreessen, Elon's approach is actually the exact opposite: he delegates almost everything. He isn't involved in 99% of what his companies are doing on a daily basis. Instead, his entire focus is hunting for one specific thing: The Bottleneck. In any manufacturing chain, there is always a bottleneck keeping the line from running the way it's supposed to. It could be a lack of raw materials at the beginning, or a shortage of warehouse space at the end. Whatever it is, that bottleneck is holding everything up. Job number one is to remove it and get things flowing again. Elon has universalized this concept. He looks at every company like it's a conceptual assembly line—sometimes a literal one making cars and rockets. He knows that on any given week, there is guaranteed to be one main bottleneck holding his people back. So, what’s the secret to his management paradox? He relentlessly micromanages the solution to that one specific problem. He doesn't need to manage everything else because, by definition, the rest of the company is running better than the bottleneck. Once it's fixed, he moves on to the next biggest problem. But here is the part where most non-technical CEOs would completely fail trying to replicate this method: When Elon identifies the bottleneck, he has zero patience for bureaucracy. He doesn't ask the VP of Engineering to ask the Director to ask the Manager to ask the individual contributor to write a report to be reviewed in three weeks. He would throw that entire chain of command out the window. Instead, he bypasses the middleman completely. He goes straight to the manufacturing line or the software group, personally finds the exact line engineer who actually understands the technical nature of the bottleneck, sits in a room with them, and fixes the problem together.

Ian Miles Cheong

71,460 次观看 • 3 个月前

BERNIE SANDERS: ELON IS A BRILLIANT INNOVATOR “I am no great fan of Elon Musk, especially in the role that he's playing right now in Trump's campaign. But is he a brilliant guy? Of course, he is. Does he work like a dog? Of course, he does. Does he come up with these incredible innovations in companies? Yes, he does. Does he deserve credit for that? Yeah. He does. But, you know, even in terms of encouraging innovation, I would hope that we are focusing on the important issues. I would love to see great innovators figure out how we build the affordable housing that we need, come up with the great drugs that we need to solve many of the terrible illnesses that plague people.” Source: Lex Fridman , Elon Musk

BERNIE SANDERS: ELON IS A BRILLIANT INNOVATOR “I am no great fan of Elon Musk, especially in the role that he's playing right now in Trump's campaign. But is he a brilliant guy? Of course, he is. Does he work like a dog? Of course, he does. Does he come up with these incredible innovations in companies? Yes, he does. Does he deserve credit for that? Yeah. He does. But, you know, even in terms of encouraging innovation, I would hope that we are focusing on the important issues. I would love to see great innovators figure out how we build the affordable housing that we need, come up with the great drugs that we need to solve many of the terrible illnesses that plague people.” Source: Lex Fridman , Elon Musk

Mario Nawfal

1,210,738 次观看 • 1 年前

Telegram Founder, Pavel Durov on Elon Musk: "I believe that certain traits that Elon Musk demonstrates, that people criticize about him, are also the sources of his strength, for example, his emotionality is derived from the fact that he cares about issues deeply, and he is willing to start as many wars and as many fights as it takes to change the world in the direction that he thinks is right. If we are talking about the richest person in the world and the most famous entrepreneur in the world, you have to wonder, how does he motivate himself? It's one of the main traits of a successful entrepreneur not agreeing with things, and every time somebody like Elon Musk, but there is no somebody like him, it's just Elon. He's unique in the sense that he keeps launching new things, running them in parallel, and he doesn't seem to be stretched too thin."

Telegram Founder, Pavel Durov on Elon Musk: "I believe that certain traits that Elon Musk demonstrates, that people criticize about him, are also the sources of his strength, for example, his emotionality is derived from the fact that he cares about issues deeply, and he is willing to start as many wars and as many fights as it takes to change the world in the direction that he thinks is right. If we are talking about the richest person in the world and the most famous entrepreneur in the world, you have to wonder, how does he motivate himself? It's one of the main traits of a successful entrepreneur not agreeing with things, and every time somebody like Elon Musk, but there is no somebody like him, it's just Elon. He's unique in the sense that he keeps launching new things, running them in parallel, and he doesn't seem to be stretched too thin."

DogeDesigner

647,640 次观看 • 10 个月前

"It's like being dropped into a zone of shocking competence." Marc Andreessen on working at one of Elon Musk’s companies: "Everybody is like ultra competent... If they're not, Elon sniffs it out and fires them." "The best engineers in the world want to work for him because he's the one CEO like this who's able to work with them as a peer." "So he just has this incredible positive selection where the smartest people in the world want to work for him and anybody who can't cut it gets fired." "The world sees this as raw aggression." "But it's beyond that. It's a very systematic way of optimizing these companies to be able to take on these profound challenges and then being able to actually solve all the problems... at a speed that's just completely unmatched." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with David Senra

"It's like being dropped into a zone of shocking competence." Marc Andreessen on working at one of Elon Musk’s companies: "Everybody is like ultra competent... If they're not, Elon sniffs it out and fires them." "The best engineers in the world want to work for him because he's the one CEO like this who's able to work with them as a peer." "So he just has this incredible positive selection where the smartest people in the world want to work for him and anybody who can't cut it gets fired." "The world sees this as raw aggression." "But it's beyond that. It's a very systematic way of optimizing these companies to be able to take on these profound challenges and then being able to actually solve all the problems... at a speed that's just completely unmatched." Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 with David Senra

a16z

210,812 次观看 • 4 个月前

MARC ANDREESSEN EXPLAINS HOW ELON MUSK RUNS MULTIPLE COMPANIES AT ONCE: • HE FINDS THE BIGGEST BOTTLENECK EVERY WEEK. • FIXES IT HIMSELF. • REPEATS IT 52 TIMES A YEAR. HE DOESN'T MICROMANAGE EVERYTHING. HE MICROMANAGES THE ONE THING THAT MATTERS MOST. THAT'S WHY HIS COMPANIES MOVE FASTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE.

MARC ANDREESSEN EXPLAINS HOW ELON MUSK RUNS MULTIPLE COMPANIES AT ONCE: • HE FINDS THE BIGGEST BOTTLENECK EVERY WEEK. • FIXES IT HIMSELF. • REPEATS IT 52 TIMES A YEAR. HE DOESN'T MICROMANAGE EVERYTHING. HE MICROMANAGES THE ONE THING THAT MATTERS MOST. THAT'S WHY HIS COMPANIES MOVE FASTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE.

Vivek Sen

24,442 次观看 • 13 天前

Former SpaceX employee: I think Elon is smarter than Einstein. “SpaceX is special forces. We take on the missions that others deem impossible. This will be the hardest thing you will ever do in your life. It is the kind of personality that wants to be a Navy SEAL, the engineering equivalent of that. It will be bruising and punishing and uncomfortable every day. Growth is rarely comfortable. If you are comfortable, you are probably not growing. To work for Elon is to be comfortable in a constant state of discomfort. He has 10,000 times more what the average person has streaming through their brain any given time. Our ability to think about and analyze a problem is nothing compared to how his brain works. Elon aspires to be the greatest engineer in the history of the world. He does have the cognitive horsepower of the geniuses that we have seen come before us. I think he is smarter than Einstein.” Dolly Singh in BBC's documentary The Elon Musk Show, 2022

Former SpaceX employee: I think Elon is smarter than Einstein. “SpaceX is special forces. We take on the missions that others deem impossible. This will be the hardest thing you will ever do in your life. It is the kind of personality that wants to be a Navy SEAL, the engineering equivalent of that. It will be bruising and punishing and uncomfortable every day. Growth is rarely comfortable. If you are comfortable, you are probably not growing. To work for Elon is to be comfortable in a constant state of discomfort. He has 10,000 times more what the average person has streaming through their brain any given time. Our ability to think about and analyze a problem is nothing compared to how his brain works. Elon aspires to be the greatest engineer in the history of the world. He does have the cognitive horsepower of the geniuses that we have seen come before us. I think he is smarter than Einstein.” Dolly Singh in BBC's documentary The Elon Musk Show, 2022

ELON CLIPS

263,540 次观看 • 1 年前

Khanna: The country should be asking in the divorce of Elon Musk and Donald Trump, who gets custody of JD Vance. I mean, let's hear from the vice president. Is he on team Musk or is he on team Trump? In terms of the spending on the bill, does he agree with Elon Musk or does he agree with Donald Trump in terms of the tariff policy? Does he agree with Elon Musk or Donald Trump in terms of the ban on international students? Does he agree with Elon Musk or Donald Trump? He kind of wants it both ways. He wants Musk’s money and he wants Trump’s endorsement. And he's sort of caught in between in the divorce. And I really think the vice president should have to answer.

Khanna: The country should be asking in the divorce of Elon Musk and Donald Trump, who gets custody of JD Vance. I mean, let's hear from the vice president. Is he on team Musk or is he on team Trump? In terms of the spending on the bill, does he agree with Elon Musk or does he agree with Donald Trump in terms of the tariff policy? Does he agree with Elon Musk or Donald Trump in terms of the ban on international students? Does he agree with Elon Musk or Donald Trump? He kind of wants it both ways. He wants Musk’s money and he wants Trump’s endorsement. And he's sort of caught in between in the divorce. And I really think the vice president should have to answer.

Acyn

297,188 次观看 • 1 年前

Former SpaceX Head of Talent : I think Elon is smarter than Einstein. "One way we explained the SpaceX culture, in order to be honest with people, was this: SpaceX is like special forces. We take on missions that others consider impossible. This will be the hardest thing you ever do in your life. It attracts the kind of personality that wants to be a Navy SEAL, but in engineering. It will be bruising, punishing, and uncomfortable every day. Growth is not comfortable. If you are comfortable, you are probably not growing. To work for Elon is to be comfortable living in a constant state of discomfort. He has 10,000 times more going through his brain than the average person at any given moment. Our ability to think about and analyze a problem is nothing compared to how his brain works. Elon aspires to be the greatest engineer in the history of the world. He has the cognitive horsepower of the geniuses who came before us. But he is not Einstein, is he? I think he is smarter than Einstein."

Former SpaceX Head of Talent : I think Elon is smarter than Einstein. "One way we explained the SpaceX culture, in order to be honest with people, was this: SpaceX is like special forces. We take on missions that others consider impossible. This will be the hardest thing you ever do in your life. It attracts the kind of personality that wants to be a Navy SEAL, but in engineering. It will be bruising, punishing, and uncomfortable every day. Growth is not comfortable. If you are comfortable, you are probably not growing. To work for Elon is to be comfortable living in a constant state of discomfort. He has 10,000 times more going through his brain than the average person at any given moment. Our ability to think about and analyze a problem is nothing compared to how his brain works. Elon aspires to be the greatest engineer in the history of the world. He has the cognitive horsepower of the geniuses who came before us. But he is not Einstein, is he? I think he is smarter than Einstein."

Doge Tipping

214,684 次观看 • 19 天前

Marc Andreessen says AI is hyper democratizing. “Is the future of the world going to be one or a small number of companies, or for that matter, governments or super AIs that kind of own and control everything?” “Or is this a technology that's going to diffuse out and be in everybody's hands?” “This is the time in which AI is actually hyper democratizing. It has spread to more individuals, both in the country and around the world in the shortest period of time of any new technology I think in history.” “The best AIs in the world are in the consumer products.” “This technology is going to be in everybody's hands. And everybody is going to be able to use it to optimize the things that they do, have it be a thought partner, assistant for building companies.” Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

Marc Andreessen says AI is hyper democratizing. “Is the future of the world going to be one or a small number of companies, or for that matter, governments or super AIs that kind of own and control everything?” “Or is this a technology that's going to diffuse out and be in everybody's hands?” “This is the time in which AI is actually hyper democratizing. It has spread to more individuals, both in the country and around the world in the shortest period of time of any new technology I think in history.” “The best AIs in the world are in the consumer products.” “This technology is going to be in everybody's hands. And everybody is going to be able to use it to optimize the things that they do, have it be a thought partner, assistant for building companies.” Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

a16z

79,935 次观看 • 8 个月前