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by ryandrake 466 days ago
> It is also known that people at SpaceX hate it when he is around telling people what to do because most of it doesn't make sense.

Sounds like he does a bit of Seagull Management[1]. Worked with a founder like this once. Everyone dreaded seeing him around the office, because that meant everyone's work was going to get upended and/or canceled, and we'd be working on something totally different once he articulated his latest fever dream to the engineering team. Then, once the place was in chaos, he'd get in his plane and fly off somewhere until he stopped by again to upend everything.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management