After working directly for Elon Musk for 5 ½ years and having countless
hours of meetings with him – I am reasonably qualified to answer this
question. I was formerly Head of Talent Acq at SpaceX and working for Elon
has been one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life, and one for
which I am deeply grateful.
Elon is without question one of the most brilliant, dynamic, and charismatic
people that I have ever met. It was an honor to build an effective working
partnership with him and help build one of the world’s most amazing
companies. I have recently read articles comparing him to Steve Jobs on a
regular basis, but in my humble opinion, Mr. Jobs in all his greatness has
nothing on Elon. Elon is Wernher von Braun, Howard Hughes, Henry Ford, Bill
Gates, Steve Jobs and every other badass all rolled into one.
He reads voraciously; he taught himself how to design, and build the world’
s most advanced rockets and spacecraft by reading books. Elon is an astute
student of history and has studied all the greats mentioned above and many
others, he combines their insights along with his own innate almost
unnatural talents.
Elon is a phenom, some sort of exceptional freak of nature. His mom Maye
Musk (a stunningly beautiful spokeswoman and professional speaker)
congratulated him on the recent successes with SpaceX and Tesla and in that
private conversation she said that his only response what that he was just
getting started. . . So again, a bet on Elon continuing to define #winning
is one I’m willing to make. Full disclosure, I am long Tesla, Solar City
and SpaceX
