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CEO of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company resigns

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Re: CEO of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company resigns

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Yeah, they're all beholden in some way to the success of SpaceX or access for their books. I'm not a Musk basher, I mean I do think he has behavior problems on X and runs constant pump and dumps in crypto, but I don't think he's an idiot or incompetent or what have you. I think Tesla and SpaceX are incredible achievements. All I'm saying is that there are a lot of people who are like, "and it was all Musk, this prove…

I am talking about Musk vs Bezos, and how each one's leadership affects their respective organisation's performance. Ceteris Paribus, given two billionaires, both with the ability to hire the thousands of excellent employees you mention, why does one succeed while the other doesn't? The excellent employees at both organisations cancel out and we left with the two billionaire leaders and hence why we talk about them a…

> Ceteris Paribus

There's no such thing as ceteris paribus when it comes to organizations where thousands of people work, doing insanely complex work. There's literally way too many variables.

Re: CEO of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company resigns

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If a rocket company CEO can be replaced by an e-tail company exec, what do CEOs do that warrant such high earnings again

There a few snarky answers to your question but the real answer is simple: what CEOs do is extremely hard, they don't just need to build a rocket, they need to build a 1,000 person team capable of producing rockets. Despite what some people may think there's no 1 person who has all the knowledge required to put a rocket into space, so the CEO is responsible for bringing all that knowledge together. Take a look at the…

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