Elon Musk is probably the easiest person to point at because he’s worst at it. He has a novel approach of talking down the odds of success of any newsworthy rocket launch and he clearly doesn’t understand that criticising journalists’ reporting of Tesla autopilot issues isn’t going to encourage good reporting.

He looks and sounds so awkward in interviews that he may have as little charisma as I do… at least, if you can ignore the fact he’s a billionaire, which some people find very charismatic in itself.

> The innovation he has is an acceptance of failure for mission critical systems and quality assurance like cars or rockets.

That's definitely not the case unless you're really just out of touch or purposefully trolling here.

See, I don't want to defend Elon but he seems the most balanced among big tech executives, in that he is invested himself in the outcomes of the companies. He spends the long hours, or at least spent them in the past.

I think he is more self aware in general than other execs. He found away to mix self-interest with solving worlds problems. I mean there is still potential for things to go awry.

But at least he is not Facebook. He is not a casino owner or something similar.

With him I don't think you can separate the right reasons and the business reasons

It pays to signal that you’re mission driven. Employees engage more.

Yes, but it can also be an easy way to justify exploitative work conditions worse than industry standard.

Yes. And underpay. I was arguing why someone would rationally seek to appear mission driven. It holds in many cases.