Kimbal Musk and Mr. Gracias, who left Tesla’s board of directors last year and is a director of SpaceX, declined to comment for this arti...
Kimbal Musk and Mr. Gracias, who left Tesla’s board of directors last year and is a director of SpaceX, declined to comment for this article.
Today, Mr. Musk oversees or is associated with at least a dozen companies, including public, private and holding companies such as Wyoming Steel, which he uses to manage real estate. His net value amounts to approximately 250 billion dollars.
A closed circle
As Mr. Musk created more companies, he gathered associates that he could deploy in many companies.
One was Mary Beth Brown, who was hired in 2002 to essentially be Mr Musk’s executive assistant. Known as MB, she quickly became something of a chief of staff, handling media inquiries and some financial matters for SpaceX and Tesla, while helping manage Mr. Musk’s personal life, Ashlee Vance said, the author of “Elon Musk: Tesla”. , SpaceX and the quest for a fantastic future.
That same year, Mr. Musk hired Gwynne Shotwell as SpaceX’s seventh employee. As the rocket maker’s president and chief operating officer, Ms Shotwell oversaw the company’s growth, becoming one of Mr Musk’s longest-lasting employees.
To a conference in 2018, Ms Shotwell explained how she handled Mr Musk.
“When Elon says something, you have to pause and not immediately blurt out, ‘Well, that’s impossible’ or ‘There’s no way we’re doing this. I don’t know how,” she said. “So you zip it up and think about it. And you find ways to do it.
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