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Re:Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman by mlindner on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @06:29PM (#40652380)
This is such a poor hot take. Literally every single person that has personally dealt with him disagrees this narrative. It's only popular on reddit/hacker news boards and among some journalists. Karpathy has a good discussion on it that I've heard several employees at his other companies agree with.

Karpathy: https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1bpwo0w/andrej...

Tom Mueller: https://i.redd.it/89dqiz2lc2t81.jpg

Or even Shotwell herself for that matter and how she has expressed how she and Elon subdivide the work.

Elon Musk is not nice person, but he gets things done and he's deeply involved in the day-to-day activities of his companies. I know a low level software engineer at SpaceX and he regularly attends their team meetings and contributes.

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Re:Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman by bawolff on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @07:05PM (#40652683)
> I know a low level software engineer at SpaceX and he regularly attends their team meetings and contributes.

You say that like its a good thing. Normally CEO attending random low level meetings is considered a pretty big red flag.

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Re:Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman by elevatedastalt on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @07:51PM (#40653018)
It's a red flag in traditional companies. Musk has never been a traditional CEO or run his companies like a traditional company.

If you want to run an IBM or Cisco, don't hire Musk, sure.

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Re:Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman by CamperBob2 on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @07:28PM (#40652856)
(Shrug) It seems to be working for them.
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Re:Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman by mlindner on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @10:48PM (#40653972)
Tom Mueller also mentioned how he had like 20+ direct reports. The organization is _extremely_ flat with almost no middle managers.
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