I worked at Tesla and Waymo. Here are the leadership lessons I bring to my startup.

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Spencer Penn said Waymo's org chart was "rotated 90 degrees from Tesla."

Spencer Penn

Delaware Supreme Court reinstates Elon Musk's $55 billion pay package from 2018

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Elon Musk at a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington.
Elon Musk erupted at the EU all weekend, blasting Brussels over censorship and bureaucracy after X was hit with a major fine for "fake" blue checkmarks.

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TikTok's new US owners won't control key parts of the business, according to a leaked memo

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Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison is the executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle, the software company he founded in 1977.

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Mark Zuckerberg's CZI philanthropy stops funding the pro-immigration advocacy group he cofounded

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Mark Zuckerberg cofounded FWD.us in 2013. In 2025, he stopped funding it.

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Uber CEO says AI is turning his engineers into 'superhumans'

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks at a conference while wearing a light grey suit, light blue dress shirt, and crossing his two pointer fingers.

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Sam Altman says he has '0%' excitement about being CEO of a public company ahead of a potential OpenAI IPO

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Sam Altman
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI.

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NASA's new boss says the race is on between SpaceX and Blue Origin to build a moon lander

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Jared Isaacman
New NASA administrator Jared Isaacman is a former SpaceX astronaut.

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Google's new invite-only AI tool emails you morning briefings based on your Gmail, Calendar, and Drive. I tried it.

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Google's new AI tool CC writes morning briefings.

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Capital One is wary about its rising Amazon cloud AI costs, Nvidia memo shows

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Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman, standing onstage at CES, wearing a light purple shirt and gesturing with his hands.
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman

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Wikipedia cofounder says he isn't surprised at criticism of Elon Musk's Grokipedia

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Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales is pictured.
Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales suggested people may not trust Elon Musk's AI-powered rival, Grokipedia.

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