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Marc Andreessen on how @elonmusk works: "He has an operating method that he's developed that I would say is very unusual by modern standards. I'm not aware of another current CEO who operates the way that he does." "The top-line thing is this incredible devotion from the leader of the company to fully, deeply understand what the company does and to be in the trenches and talking directly to the people who do the work." "Basically what Elon does is he shows up every week at each of his companies, he identifies the biggest problem that the company's having that week, and he fixes it." "He does that every week for 52 weeks in a row, and then each of his companies has solved the 52 biggest problems that year." "Someone who used to work in one of the other aerospace companies and went to work at SpaceX said... 'It's like being dropped into a shocking zone of competence.'" "Most of us never have that experience. Most people are never in an organization where the bar is held that high." @pmarca with @ChrisWillx

"I was speaking to a grandmother in rural Tennessee, and she was taking care of her eleven-year-old granddaughter. So she wakes up, she walks into her room, the bed's empty." " Detective arrives, no sign of force. There's nothing, except one thing that he remembers. There's a Flock camera just down the street. So he pulls out his phone and runs a search for the night and finds one car. He runs that tag, and it's his worst nightmare. It's a registered sex offender. So he logs into Flock, and he's looking for this car, and he sees the car is traveling down I-75." "The person's on the highway. The detective doesn't know what to do, so he does what every hero does, is he moves into action. He jumps in his car and races down I-75. As he approaches the interstate line, he sees the vehicle." "A violent struggles ensues, and at the end, he hears crying. And the girl's in the back. She's bound, but she's alive. They went on to go search the suspect's house, and the nightmare got scarier. Everything one would need to not only assault, but dispose of the body was there." "Now that girl's alive today because the detective had two things: He had a license plate, and he had direction of travel. This, for me, is one of thousands of stories I sadly hear about every day in America. I started Flock nine years ago because of this exact type of problem." @glangley at @TEDTalks