Jon McNeill: How Elon Musk Makes Decisions

Shane Parrish: What was your first meeting with Elon like? 

Jon McNeill: First meeting in person was at SpaceX. So it was for this tech nerd, it was pretty awesome to walk into a rocket factory, get the tour, and then sit down with him. And he’s got this big, huge titanium desk, or did at the time. And we sat and talked and then walked around the factory for hours and just dove deep right away into a problem he was facing in manufacturing.