Andrej Karpathy: Elon Musk Is a Warrior Fighting Organizational Entropy

Andrej Karpathy: Elon is a warrior fighting entropy in organizations.

“He hates meetings. He keeps telling people to skip meetings if they're not useful.

He has a very good intuition for streamlining processes, making everything efficient —the best part is no part— simplifying, focusing, and just removing barriers, moving very quickly, and making big moves.

I do think you need someone in a powerful position with a big hammer like Elon, who's the cheerleader for that idea and ruthlessly pursues it. If no one has a big enough hammer, everything turns into committees, democracy within the company, processes, talking to stakeholders, decision-making, everything just crumbles.

If you have a big person who is also really smart and has a big hammer, things move quickly.”

Lex Fridman Podcast, October 22, 2022