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The real question is whether someone can be CEO of 5 companies and do a good job.
Personally, I think Musk is much better at being a brand than a CEO. But you can hide a lot behind smoke and mirrors if you're the richest person in the world and other rich people will throw money at you just to be your friend.
Given how things are going at Twitter so far, one might rule out the second option. And there's probably investors who are asking themselves this question too.
I'm sure many CEOs are spending a lot of time keeping things going..
I think a few (in smaller orgs) are doing busywork because they quite frankly don't know why they get so much money when the org has pretty much taken care of itself from before they came onboard..
I feel a light touch is best. CEOs that run just one company are always changing this and that. They should get out of the way more and let their employees do their work.
-Tesla doesn't need his input all that much at the moment. The key strategy is set, now they just need to execute operationally. -Twitter is what he is doing now actively. -I'm not sure he is doing anything in the Boring Company. -Neuralink is like an R&D outfit, what does he even need to do there beyond hiring engineers? -No idea about SpaceX. Also, he can be the CEO of 5 companies because only one of them is public…
TL;DR: Gwynne Shotwell runs SpaceX.
You buy or found them and make yourself CEO. The real question is whether someone can be CEO of 5 companies and do a good job. Personally, I think Musk is much better at being a brand than a CEO. But you can hide a lot behind smoke and mirrors if you're the richest person in the world and other rich people will throw money at you just to be your friend.
You buy or found them and make yourself CEO. The real question is whether someone can be CEO of 5 companies and do a good job. Personally, I think Musk is much better at being a brand than a CEO. But you can hide a lot behind smoke and mirrors if you're the richest person in the world and other rich people will throw money at you just to be your friend.
Except he was also doing a phenomenal job early in his career too. It's not all smoke and mirrors or connections.