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CV NEWS FEED // A fellow billionaire businessman explained how Elon Musk’s unique, innovative, and solution-oriented approach to leading companies figures to transform the second Donald Trump presidency.
After winning the 2024 election in a rout, Trump named Musk to co-lead a planned presidential advisory commission, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), along with former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
A World Wide Web Hall-of-Famer and founder of several successful tech companies in Silicon Valley, Marc Andreessen shared his insights on Musk during a Tuesday appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
Andreessen described an email Musk had sent during the time the South African-born billionaire was in the process of reforming the social media platform Twitter (now known as X) just after acquiring it two years ago.
“Elon sends this email … and the line is, ‘What did you get done this week?’” Andreessen told host Joe Rogan.
“And in the context of Silicon Valley companies, that was a provocative statement,” Andreessen explained, “because a lot of Silicon Valley companies take months or years to do anything.”
“Imagine that statement being applied to the government,” Andreessen said. “Like, okay, what are the problems? How are we going to fix them? And what have you gotten done this week?”
In the exchange with Rogan, Andreessen also noted that in a recent post, an X user shared his experience working for Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI.
“And he said Elon came in last week and he said Elon spent 18 hours at the office and in five-minute chunks, each person had a five-minute speaking slot to explain to Elon what they were doing,” Andreessen recounted.
“Wow,” Rogan replied.
“And so think about what that meant,” Andreessen continued:
Every employee had an opportunity to tell the big boss what they were working on. Every employee had an opportunity to be recognized for their effort. Every employee had an opportunity to get live feedback from the big boss who had a comprehensive overview of everything as to what they should be doing. And there’s no place to hide.
“Think about how different it is for a company to be run that way,” the billionaire told Rogan, adding that most tech companies in Silicon Valley are “not even close to” that “level of intensity.”
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Rogan chimed in: “Now imagine that applied to government.”
“There’s no law that prevents that,” Andreessen answered. “There’s no reason it can’t be done. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says you can’t do that.”
“It’s a choice,” he added. “How the government is run is a choice on the part of the Executive Branch and the president.”
On X, Musk approvingly shared a clip of Andreessen’s remarks to Rogan Tuesday afternoon, adding, in an apparent imitation of an email header:
To: all@.gov
From: @DOGE
What did you get done this week?
CatholicVote previously reported that in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal last week, Musk and Ramaswamy “called out Planned Parenthood by name,” stating that “as one part of [DOGE’s] plan to make the government run more efficiently,” it “will ‘take aim’ at the millions of taxpayer dollars currently being sent annually to” the abortion industry giant.
