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		examancer on March 29, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Analysts argue that over-automation is to blame fo... While it is a good idea to spread to credit for SpaceX's acheivements around, Musk himself has done more engineering of products at SpaceX and Tesla than any of his peers. His title as CEO of both companies is somewhat misleading as he has very little involvement in business operations of either company and spends most of his time engineering.

TheArcane on March 29, 2018 [–]

Source?

nickik on March 29, 2018 | [–]

He is Chief Engineer at SpaceX, because they couldn't get anybody.

Go listen to Tom Mueller for example. Musk himself says at SpaceX 80% of the time he is working on engineering not traditional 'CEO' things..

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