Sounds like a liability to Tesla and SpaceX. They are just one bus accident away from irrelevancy. I always assumed Musk was good at creating a company culture where people are innovative, which could in theory be kept alive even if Musk wasn't there anymore. Not so much when all engineering relies on his ideas.
Yeah, I think Graham was being a little hyperbolic here. Certainly Elon's engineering genius helps the companies, but my guess is that it's primarily through attracting other brilliant engineers, rather than singlehandedly doing all the innovation himself.
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Sounds like a liability to Tesla and SpaceX. They are just one bus accident away from irrelevancy. I always assumed Musk was good at creating a company culture where people are innovative, which could in theory be kept alive even if Musk wasn't there anymore. Not so much when all engineering relies on his ideas.
Yeah, I think Graham was being a little hyperbolic here. Certainly Elon's engineering genius helps the companies, but my guess is that it's primarily through attracting other brilliant engineers, rather than singlehandedly doing all the innovation himself.
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