David Sacks Explains How Elon Can Pullback from DOGE and Still Be Effective

Tesla's up in large part because Elon basically said, "I'm getting out of Doge and I'm going back into Tesla." Is he really out of Doge? I don't think he's out of Doge. He didn't say he was out of Doge. It was just a matter of how much time he could allocate to each thing. I saw this before when I was part of the Twitter transition for the first 3 months or so. He was basically full-time at Twitter HQ learning the business down to the database level. I mean, every nook and cranny of that business he learned about. Once he felt like he had a mental model and he had the people in place that he trusted, he can move to more of a maintenance mode. And I think

that's the only way he can manage five companies is that he has these intense bursts where he focuses on something, gets the right people and structure in place, feels like he understands it, and then he can delegate more. And I think that he has reached that point with Doge, but he was also clear that he's going to keep doing it because if he doesn't, there's going to be a huge backsliding where, you know, all the corrupt interests will basically put back all this corrupt spending. So, he's going to stay involved, but as an SGE, he's limited to 130 days a year anyway. And so, it makes sense for him to kind of now ration his days a little more closely. My sense is that Doge is going

to continue. It's just that Elon is shifting to a mode where he can manage it one day a week or two days a week as opposed to being there 5 days a