“What struck me about Bootcamp is that it was all designed to answer investor questions before they were asked, basically to psych-out the investors. No one else is doing this.” said Patrick McDonald. Here’s the full story: The other day I had the opportunity to speak with Patrick McDonald, Founder, and CEO of Oshen, a […]
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Dear Sean, Congratulations on the 6-0 start. I realize there is a long way to go in the season, not to mention the playoffs. But for long-time Rams fans like me, the transformation you’ve led is remarkable. Millennials have a reputation for being hard-working, but a bit undisciplined. Your generation is apt to
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Dear Sheryl, You’ve done an amazing job steering Facebook as COO. Now I have a request. Your partnership with Mark Zuckerberg is clearly working well, even through the ups and downs of managing a very large organization serving more than a billion customers. As I’ve discussed with my readers for several years, the
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Elon, Most of us believe you’re serious in your commitment to protecting the human race against climate change and even more disastrous events, both natural and human-made, that could wipe us out. The result of your commitment is there for all to see, in the amazing achievements of SpaceX and Tesla. We also believe that
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The Master Funding Equation – Power Recap You’ll recall from high school algebra that solving an equation generally amounts to balancing both sides. The Master Funding Equation (MFE) is similarly an equation that, when balanced, provides the solution of a maximization of your chances for funding. So, what are we attempting to balance? Expectations. Yours
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I hope you found the recent foray into the mind of Elon Musk to be valuable to you in developing your company’s senior team. I can’t emphasize enough how important team composition is to your future growth — not to mention specifically for gaining investor capital. Today, I want to return to our Master Funding
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Saving Tesla starts with understanding Elon Musk and his style of management. This short video lays out the key takeaways from this article. In the first in this series, we’ve taken a deep look at the distinct ways that one man, Elon Musk, is running two large companies that are on very different trajectories
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Tesla is failing, SpaceX is surging. As I wrote in my last post, it is the best of times and the worst of times for Elon Musk, founder of both companies. In that post, I proposed that a major reason Elon Musk’s two businesses are getting such different results is that Musk has a very
The Two Faces of Elon Musk – SpaceX’s Secret Weapon (Part 2) Read More »
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Surely one of the great opening lines in literary fiction, penned by Charles Dickens in the classic “A Tale of Two Cities.” Perhaps Elon Musk, better than anyone, understands the depth of that sentence because he founded two companies that together embody the
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Have you seen the movie Grand Canyon, starring Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin plus a host of great supporting cast members? It is a movie with a clear message: there is a fine line between rich/poor, love/hate, marriage/divorce, success/failure. I thought about the movie as I wrote this final post about scaling up, because
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