[uxabhishek]

“As for Neuralink, I was being genuine when I said that I learned a ton there and remain significantly invested in their success. The truth is that it wasn’t my choice to leave, and there was a lot left there I still wanted to do. But as usual, Elon was right: it was time for me to go. The background is complex and, in some sense, doesn’t really matter. In what should be a surprise to no one, Elon is by far the most effective operator I’ve ever met, and the four years I had there were, in retrospect, the best education on how to turn difficult technical problems into businesses I could have possibly found. Going forward, though we both work with the brain, our goals are different: Science is not working on products that will likely be very useful for merging with AI, though that is a mission in which I hope Neuralink is successful. From a technology standpoint, what we are pursuing at Science is quite different.”

Interesting that he was asked to leave. It was speculated earlier that Max left because he was annoyed at Elon revealing the implant in the monkey a bit sooner than he wanted to.

[kensai]

I still don’t understand why he was sacked. He was/is brilliant. All the best in Science! If you open offices in Europe let us know! ;)

[KKKKkkkk1]

The recently published book Power Play by Tim Higgins is a very nice history of Tesla. It describes the Elon playbook in great detail:

1) Formulate goals that are guaranteed to fail.

2) Hire a pliable dude to do your bidding.

3) When the moment of truth comes, scapegoat your dude and swoop in to save the day.

This is what happened to Martin Eberhard (the actual founder of Tesla), to Doug Field, and pretty much to all other Elon lieutenants over the years.