The single key metric for the Neuralink team is the number of electrodes installed per minute into a brain.

Elon Musk's hiring strategy favors young, unproven engineers to whom he gives a significant amount of accountability and responsibility early in their careers.

When the Starlink project was 10 times too expensive and producing at one-tenth the required volume, Elon Musk fired the leadership team and brought in a team of rocket scientists led by Mark Juncosa ...

Elon Musk believes the primary constraint on his companies' growth and the advancement of civilization is the availability of "truly excellent engineers," not a lack of capital.

Elon Musk's original goal before SpaceX was to increase NASA's budget by funding a philanthropic mission to land a greenhouse on Mars to inspire public interest in space.

SpaceX proposed and won outcome-based government contracts, which incentivized the company to drive down costs and hit deadlines, in contrast to the industry-standard cost-plus model.

To address supply chain bottlenecks, Tesla is building its own lithium refinery in the United States.

To solve a production constraint on the Raptor engine at SpaceX, the head of production from Tesla's Model 3 was brought in to apply automotive volume production techniques.

Elon Musk initiated the use of giant casting machines to produce the front and back thirds of Tesla vehicles as single pieces, an idea he got from observing the manufacturing of toy cars.

Elon Musk rolled most of the $22 million he made from the sale of Zip2 into his next company, X.com, which later became PayPal.

Competitors like Boeing have experienced more mission failures than SpaceX and are not catching up, despite having more engineers and capital.

By questioning a NASA requirement for a specific, expensive "omni latch," SpaceX was able to use off-the-shelf parts from McMaster-Carr that were two orders of magnitude cheaper.

Elon Musk open-sourced Tesla's patents, confident that the company's competitive advantage lies in its rapid pace of innovation, which would keep it years ahead of any competitors.

Elon Musk invested his entire personal fortune of approximately $200 million into Tesla and SpaceX.

Elon Musk requires that a single individual's name be attached to every design requirement to eliminate vague departmental ownership and enable direct accountability.

When developing autonomous driving at Tesla, the single key metric the team optimized for was the number of miles driven without human intervention.

Despite the Falcon 9 rocket being a highly profitable business with no effective competitors, Elon Musk is aggressively investing in its successor, Starship, to pursue the mission of making humanity m...

Elon Musk fired his scheduler to maintain complete control over his time, enabling him to immediately work on whatever he deems the most important problem.

To rapidly build a supercluster for xAI in Memphis, Elon Musk's team used portable gas turbines for power and mobile refrigerator trucks for cooling to bypass long grid and infrastructure lead times.