Andrej Karpathy

It's process.

It's organization.

It's process and inefficiencies in the form of meetings and that kind of stuff.

Yeah, meetings.

He hates meetings.

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

He basically runs the world's biggest startups, I would say.

Tesla, SpaceX are the world's biggest startups.

Tesla actually has multiple startups.

I think it's better to look at it that way.

And so I think he's extremely good at that.

And yeah, he's a very good intuition for streamlining processes, making everything efficient.

Best part is no part, simplifying, focusing, and just kind of removing barriers, moving very quickly, making big moves.

All this is very startup-y sort of seeming things, but at scale.

I do think you need someone in a powerful position with a big hammer like Elon, who's like 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, process, talking to stakeholders, decision-making, just everything just crumbles.

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

I wouldn't say that setting impossible goals exactly is a good idea, but I think setting very ambitious goals is a good idea.

I think there's what I call sublinear scaling of difficulty, which means that 10x problems are not 10x hard.

Usually 10x harder problem is like 2x or 3x harder to execute on.