ELON: MERITOCRACY IS ONE OF AMERICA’S CORE PILLARS “There are some core pillars, core values that have, I think, made America great. One of them is being a meritocracy – as much of a meritocracy as possible. Such that you get ahead as a function of your hard work and your skill. Nothing else. Which is why I would be opposed to, for example, things like DEI. It's not like America's been purely a meritocracy, but it has been more of a meritocracy than any other place. Which I regard as good.” Source: Interview with Jordan Peterson, July 2024

MARC ANDREESSEN: HERE’S WHY ELON INSPIRES INCREDIBLE LOYALTY FROM HIS EMPLOYEES “Elon actually delegates almost everything. He's involved in the thing that is the biggest problem right now until that thing is fixed. And then, he can go focus on the next thing that's the biggest problem for that company right now. 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 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.” Source: Interview of @pmarca by @ChrisWillx on Youtube, December 14, 2024