Trying To Read Our Dna Is Like

We Have A Strict 'no A-hole Policy' At Spacex. And We Fire People They Are. I Mean, We Give Them A Little Bit Of Warning. But If They Continue To Be An A-hole, Then They're Fired.

Focus On Something That Has High Value To Someone Else, Be Really Rigorous In Making That Assessment, Because Natural Human Tendency Is Wishful Thinking, So The Challenge To Entrepreneurs Is Telling What's The Difference Between Really Believing In Your Ideals And Sticking To Them As Opposed To Pursuing Some Unrealistic Dream That Doesn't Actually Have Merit, Be Very Rigorous In Your Self Analysis, Certainly Being Extremely Tenacious, And Just Work Like Hell. Put In 80-100 Hours Every Week. All These Things Improves The Odds Of Success

Talent Is Extremely Important. It's Like A Sports Team, The Team That Has The Best Individual Player Will Often Win, But Then There’s A Multiplier From How Those Players Work Together And The Strategy They Employ.

My Background Educationally Is Physics And Economics, And I Grew Up In Sort Of An Engineering Environment - My Father Is An Electromechanical Engineer. And So There Were Lots Of Engineery Things Around Me.

I Don't Think It's A Good Idea To Plan To Sell A Company.