Seems very early to judge in either direction, we’ll probably need at least a year to see (or maybe just through Black Friday). But I would disagree with anyone who doesn’t think Elon isn’t in the middle of a high tightrope wall without a net. How many leaders really want to take on this level of risk? And how many want to lose their best engineers to competitors who aren’t taking these risks. We’re like three months in to a bull market and everyone seems to think the lessons aren’t just generalizable, But universal?
Everyone said Jobs completely changed the business landscape, by not very company is apple and not every leader is jobs. In fact it seems very few large tech companies other than apple operate like apple, and even Apple isn't feeling very apple-like lately.
The other thing is I imagine their is a glacier effect here. If Elon is effective it’s probably for the 90% you don’t see, not the 10% you do. He’s not effective, because he fired people. He’s effective because of the way that fits into a larger strategy.