Pavel Durov

At a certain point in the life of a successful entrepreneur, the question of motivation starts to be the primary question.

If we are talking about the richest person in the world and the most famous entrepreneur in the world, they have to wonder, how does he motivate himself?

a war on X, debating certain issues, or becoming personal with other CEOs, criticizing them.

being non-agreeable.

Actually, it's one of the main traits of a successful entrepreneur, not agreeing with things.

And every time somebody like Elon, but there is no somebody like Elon, it's just Elon.

I think, at least from the entrepreneurs I know, and I personally interacted with, he's unique in the sense that he keeps launching new things, running them in parallel, and he doesn't seem to be stretched too thin.

Well, some people think he is, but

he manages to still demonstrate success in all or most of his endeavors.

So again, you can criticize Elon for being emotional, but would he be the same person without this?

I doubt that.

Yes, and one of the necessary character features to enable that is to be ready to be unpleasant.

You have to be ready to insult some people if their work is inferior.

You have to be ready to fire them without remorse.

So in order to be an efficient, a great entrepreneur and enrich the world of innovations, you have to do unpleasant things.

Most people will shy away from it.

And Elon is a great example of that.

One dirham is one third of that.

Yeah, we had to innovate a lot in order to reach a point where we are profitable without having to resort to dubious business activities involving exploiting personal data of users, something that most of our competitors do.

Because money has never been the primary goal, at least not for me.