Elon Musk

Founder & CEO of Tesla and SpaceX

1971 — Present

Tesla and SpaceX

The First Principles Warrior. Co-founder of PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX. Master of constraint-driven innovation and ruthless execution at scale.

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“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths… and then reason up from there.”

“There are way easier places to work, but nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week.”

“If the schedule is long it’s wrong. If it’s tight it’s right.”

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