How Elon Musk Attracts 10x Engineers

You guys went on Fox the other day with the Doge team. Big Balls. Big Balls was there. All of those guys were like 12 years old. What is it about the role, the opportunity, the way it was presented that attracted this group of what were incredibly wellspoken, highly intelligent, clearly extraordinarily motivated individuals. Where do these guys come from? The young people you saw at the table are extraordinary. They're 10x engineers. We would all be thrilled to have our companies. Elon obviously is extraordinary leaders. So they come for him, but I think they're really motivated by the mission. All of us have

known Elon for a really long time. I also worked for another person that's of that same stature for a long time. A very good friend of his came to see me recently for lunch and he asked me this exact same question about Elon. That's the question that they were grappling with. How is he able to find big balls and so many big balls? I actually can tell you I've seen him find big balls. He responds to emails or tweets. people will say like, "I have a solution to this." And then I've been CCed on messages where he sends them to the right person. He has people to vet them and see if this idea actually works. And I think he's like very opportunistic and

doesn't prejudge where you went to school and what your credentials are. There's a lot of people that can be responsive in email. I think there's a handful of people that are real northern stars for technical talent, but he's the only one that when you walk in the room, he says, "Here's this mission." And it is so generally otherworldly. Nobody else can really say that it is a flywheel as you said that is extremely unique.