a16z co-founder highly praises Musk: May have cracked the optimal management formula, but there's no second Musk

According to CoinWorld, based on monitoring by 1M AI News, Andreessen, co-founder of a16z, highly praised Elon Musk in an interview, stating that he may have “cracked the most optimal company management method for the next 100 years.” The core approach is to completely bypass middle management and directly connect with frontline engineers. Musk conducts about 120 engineering design reviews daily, each lasting 5 minutes, 12 times per hour, for around 10 hours. The goal is to identify the most critical production bottlenecks at the moment and personally work with the engineers to resolve them that same day. Andreessen compared this method to the “Big Gray Cloud” he saw during his internship at IBM: IBM’s layered management completely isolates the CEO from actual technical work, and the CEO only receives polished information. The essence of Tesla’s continuous leadership over traditional automakers is that Musk personally fixes 52 key production bottlenecks each year, whereas traditional companies often take months to solve similar issues. This approach also creates a positive talent cycle: top engineers worldwide compete to join Musk’s company because he is the only CEO who works shoulder-to-shoulder with frontline personnel as an engineering peer. Those unable to keep up are quickly eliminated. Andreessen admits that this method is almost impossible to replicate. He measures the founder’s caliber with a hypothetical unit called “milli-Elon”: most founders are between 0.1 and 1 milli-Elon, and he fully supports founders who reach 500 milli-Elon.