True innovation and success, particularly in disruptive fields, require an unconventional mindset that challenges existing limitations, embraces extreme dedication, and prioritizes genuine passion over conventional metrics.
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Success was never one of the possible
outcomes. If you're in the matrix,
success was never possible. The only way
to achieve success is to reprogram the
matrix such that success is one of the
possible outcomes. I wanted to try to
build something useful, but uh I didn't
think I would build anything
particularly great. You said
probabilistically seemed unlikely. Uh
but I wanted to at least try. I talked
to my professor was can I like defer for
the quarter because this will probably
fail and then I'll need to come back to
college. And then he said this is
probably the last conversation we'll
have. The only reason I started a
company back in 95, an internet company,
was because I couldn't get it. There
were only a few internet companies and I
couldn't get a job at any of them. So, I
tried to get a job at at Netscape, um,
and sent my resume in. I tried hanging
out in the lobby, but I was too shy to
talk to anyone. And, uh, and then I was
like, "Okay, well, I guess I'll have to
start a company cuz I can't get a job
anywhere." If you're trying to figure
out what others love, but you don't love
it, it's really hard to make that great.
So when you work on something,
if you fall in love with it, that's
that's a good sign. Um, and then don't
worry about it if others do. If if you
do, others will. I mean, there wasn't
any other way to make it work. The 3
years of hell, 17, 8, 2017, 18, and 19
was the longest period of excruciating
pain in my life. There wasn't any other
way. And we barely made it, and we're on
the ragged edge of bankruptcy the entire
time. So
>> So when you want pain, I don't like it.
Those were three three so so so much
pain but it had to be done or Tesla
would be dead. My workload went up from
about I don't know 70 to 8 hours a week
to probably 120. Go to sleep, I wake up,
I work, go to sleep, wake up, work, do
that 7 days a week. I'll have to do that
for a while. No choice. Measure of
success, I'd say like what how many
useful things can I get done?
>> Uh day-to-day basis, you wake up in the
morning, how can I be useful today?
>> Yeah. maximize utility area under the
cope of usefulness very difficult to be
useful at scale.
>> The companies that will succeed in this
transition period will be the ones that
most effectively use AI. So if you're
doing something and making maximum use
of AI and you're competing against
someone who is not, you will win. I
talked to my son in university and he's
uh was like how many of your classmates
are using AI to help them write things
and he said all of them. I was confident
that at the time that we launched no one
could think of anything that would
improve the probability of success. We
racked our brains to think of any
possible way to improve the probability
of success. And we could not think of
anything more, nor could NASA, and so
that's just the best that we could do.
So then we we went ahead and launched.
Now, I'm not a religious person, but I
nonetheless got on my knees and prayed
for that mission.
>> How did it feel when it was a success?
First, when the launch was a success,
and when they returned back home, it
>> was a great relief. The ability to
attract and motivate great people is
critical to the success of a company
because a company is just that's it's a
group of people that are assembled to
create a product or service. That's the
purpose of a company. You know, if
you're able to get great people to join
the company, work together towards a
common goal and uh and you're sort of
have a
relentless sense of perfection about
that goal, then you will end up with a
great product.
And if you have a great product, lots of
people will buy it
>> and then the company will be successful. >> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> But really, it's pretty straightforward really.
