Ex-Tesla President reveals EVERYTHING Elon does to win

Part of the secret to Elon's secret sauce is he sets these order of magnitude improvement goals. So 10x, 100x. He came to me and said, hey look, we gotta figure out how to sell cars online. Because nobody was buying a hundred and twenty thousand dollar thing sight unseen online. And so he turns to me and he says, This is your goal. Improve digital sales by twenty X. So now it's like oh crap, I gotta think way differently about this. I feel like I can rule the world, I know I can be what I want to Alright, so I guess to start

I mean, I almost want to rename the podcast How Lucky Are We? It's like Oh, we get to sit here with the guy who was the president of one of the most important companies of our time, Tesla, for years. You get to work with one of the greatest entrepreneurs ever. Elon, you yourself have this crazy entrepreneurial track record you've built and sold. Yeah, five, six different startups like the force gump of the tech industry just going into different spaces and you go into, you know, uh auto repair and cyber insurance and all these different spaces. And so I'm pretty fascinated that we get to talk today and I got a bunch of questions for you. But I wanna start With less of a

Tactical question and more of a a movie scene. So um You go into a job interview with Elon Musk. It might not have even felt like it was a a formal job interview, but your first conversation with him. Uh what's that like? All right, so uh the setup to the scene is we're introduced by a mutual friend.

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