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>Musk is heavily involved in the engineering efforts at Tesla and SpaceX.

Is there any evidence of this, outside of him personally claiming this to be the case?




https://www.quora.com/Does-Elon-Musk-do-some-very-technical-...

I'm too lazy to track down more right now. I don't know of anyone claiming (with evidence) that he doesn't.

In his biography there's interviews with people inside and out of spacex/tesla talking about it that are pretty convincing.


That thread has a quote from an interview, and then a bunch of random people saying he does.

I already know the mythology surrounding his engineering credentials. But I think perpetuating it does a real disservice to the real engineers doing work on these products. Do people really think that a bright, "well read" physics undergraduate can lead the practical engineering work on rockets and cars? I find it hard to believe.


My guess is this guy probably has more claim to "actually makes rockets" than Elon does: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/25/tom-mueller-spacex-cto-who-m...

I'm sure Elon sticks himself into tons of meetings, and hence has a lot of knowledge about what's discussed. And I don't doubt that he sets the goals for the engineers to meet, makes aesthetic and design decisions like some of the interviews suggest. But I think the guys Mueller manages are the people who actually make Falcons fly.


Do people really think that a bright, "well read" physics undergraduate can lead the practical engineering work on rockets and cars?

Most people do not. Don't blame Musk for missing that memo. :P

(By the way: the book Mindset by Carol Dweck might be an eye-opener...)


Just go to Blind. He is doing micromanaging. Also he is ,,managing by Twitter''. Whether that is good or bad is not clear, but so far he has a great track record.

Just look at the $35k Tesla that he pulled off by kicking out sales. A regular CEO wouldn't have done that. With all the chaos it has caused, Elon understands that at this point price is the most important part in the decision for buying a Tesla for lots of people, and paying sales just hinders selling.


> Just look at the $35k Tesla that he pulled off by kicking out sales. A regular CEO wouldn't have done that.

You know that's reversed right? https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2019/03/11/tesla-puts-brakes...


The decision to close most of the stores is (mostly) reversed, but the price drop to $35k for the Model 3 is not reversed.

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1121980_tesla-will-rais...


Partially correct. _Some_ variants of model 3 will continue to be sold at 35k


I have no doubt he micromanages, but that's a long way from being "heavily involved" with the engineering of the products. In fact, it's the opposite, no?


They are almost certainly still losing money on the $35K Model 3, and released it simply to try and grab some cash to keep the lights on and maybe head off accusations of a bait-and-switch perpetrated on early reservation holders.


>Just go to Blind.

Can you do that without a tesla.com email address ?




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