Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk agree with The Apple company. co-founder Steve Jobs’ opinions on hiring the best talent available and building a team of “A” players to succeed.
What happened: Jobs talked a lot about how to really build a successful team. His philosophy was that a small team of “A” players could run circles around a large team of “B” and “C” players.
Now, Musk, who is currently the third richest person in the world with a net worth of $189 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, thinks this is “true.”
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Jobs explains that he built much of his success by “finding these truly gifted people and not settling for the ‘B’ and ‘C’ players, but going for the ‘A’ players.”
Jobs put his trust in the people he hired and worked with, not in the technology.
Former Apple CEO John Sculley highlighted the fact that even during the early days of Cupertino, Jobs’ team was made up of “people who had clearly never built a commercial product before, but believed in Steve and his vision.” .
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Because matter: Following Jobs’ vision has paid off in spades for Apple: from the Mac to the iPod, to the iPhone and the iPad, Cupertino’s greatest successes in its history have been driven by Jobs’ ideas and vision.
“I’ve found that when you get enough ‘A’ players, when you do an incredible job of finding, you know, five of these ‘A’ players, they really like working together because they’ve never had the chance to do that before.”
To his credit, Musk built Tesla, SpaceXand now xAIand before that, PayPal. He is also one of the co-founders of OpenAIwhich is currently one of the leaders in the artificial intelligence industry.
Jobs believed that once you build a team of “A” players, it takes care of itself.
“They don’t want to work with the ‘B’ and ‘C’ players, and so it becomes self-policing, and they just want to hire more ‘A’ players.”
“You build these pockets of major league players and it trickles down.”
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