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I didn't see MM take any big risk here. Success -> large payout, failure -> still a large payout. Elon Musk is taking risks.

Taking the job leading a sinking ship was a pretty big risk.

And if the ship had sunk, what did she stand to lose?

>>The thing is, the reason you think this way is the same reason why you won't be as successful as her.

If you define success as "has money" then yeah, probably. But that's okay, I don't need nearly as much money as MM. Money, after all, has significant marginal utility. The difference between having $10M and $50M is not that much, unless you have extremely expensive hobbies.

She didn't need the money -- she wanted the power that comes with being the CEO of a big corporation. And I'm willing to bet that applies to most CEOs of big companies, as well as the higher-ranked corporate officials jockeying for position.