What scares me is how many other start-ups look to Musk for advise on how to run their businesses: “Elon slept on the production floor, so we’re going to do the same!”
We also specifically asked about Musk’s 2017 promise to work directly on the factory floor. As we wrote: “Did Musk perform factory tasks as promised last year? If so, which ones? What did he learn from the experience? Does he plan on repeating this experience?”
At best it is a poor use of the CEO’s time. It might be papering over bigger problems.
