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| Tesla staff pic, 2024* |
This includes the Best Engineers from China, Korea, Japan, India. Australia even. In addition to the United States, of course. And the ROW.
So says Gavin Baker clipped by @Jawwwn.(“co-signed” by Marc Andreessen).
Have a look at any group pic of staff at any one of Elon’s companies. They’re very diverse. But not because he hires based on some DEI agenda. Because he doesn’t. He hires strictly on competency.
A long-time SpaceX employee said that the first thing he noticed about his colleagues was their “shocking competence”.
SpaceX's shocking competence:
"Somebody I know once worked for @SpaceX and they were asked what it was like, and he said, "It's like being dropped into a zone of shocking competence."
Everybody is ultra competent.
And the reason everybody's ultra competent is because if they're not, Elon sniffs it out and fires them.
Elon's talking to the people actually doing the work. At this point having done this for 25 years he can sniff this out really quickly.
The best engineers in the world want to work for him because he's the one CEO who's able to work with them as a peer on whatever the technology is.
What would be better as an engineer than being able to design a rocket with @elonmusk as your engineering partner?"
Gavin Baker says that many people got upset at Elon because he supported Trump in the 2024 elections. So that they “don’t think clearly” about him. This, a man doing more than any single individual on earth to reduce carbon emissions, to bring back to America high-paying blue-collar jobs, even higher paying high-tech jobs, to bring internet to the world, to restore human abilities via the Neuralink company, to reduce urban congestion via The Boring Company. Let alone his lofty space goals. To make humankind multi-planetary.
It’s crazy to hate in a man doing so much for humanity just because you don’t agree with his politics. Which, just by the way, are shared by a majority of Americans.
By contrast, in East and South Asia, “Elon is a deity”. Says Gavin. True, that. We saw it during Trump’s recent visit to China. Where Chinese tech giants queued to get selfies with Elon.
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*Diverse staff, yes. Though I do notice there’s not too many women in this pic.
Explained by: women do not choose to take STEM subjects as often as men do. It’s a choice. It’s a choice women make everywhere with strong gender equality. Like Scandinavia. It’s just a thing. Women don’t get as much of a kick building things as men do.
