This is especially interesting in light of Ashley Vance's biography of Musk, since Musk is apparently notorious for firing people over minor oversights, and for driving otherwise excellent people to quit because of his harsh criticism. One could probably assemble a dream team of Tesla and SpaceX staff who've been fired for superficial reasons or who've quit because of the tone, culture, and attitude in those companies.
>Musk is apparently notorious for firing people over minor oversights, and for driving otherwise excellent people to quit because of his harsh criticism.
Sounds exactly like Steve Jobs really
I work in a similar environment where the product is brilliant but the environment is miserable and toxic. It makes me wonder if that's the kind of culture that is actually required to drive innovation. I hate to think that way, but sociopaths really seem to get stuff done.
I don't know if all stuff Elon says makes him sound unbalanced, but all off the stuff he gets quoted on makes him sound unbalanced.
By whom? The Post link you provided didn't mention Musk, and it's an odd, poorly-organized article that conflates drivenness and social awkwardness with Aspergers, when they're not necessarily the same. People with Aspergers are more likely to be socially awkward, but not everyone who is socially awkward has Aspergers. This Post article even includes a story from the Isaacson bio about a young Steve Jobs (who didn't have Aspergers) disrupting a meeting for Seva, while omitting Jobs' emotional reaction and subsequent apology as soon as he left that meeting.
Exactly what Jobs would say of Musk too. They would have been two peas in a pod.