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Preston Fore

Ex-Tesla president shares the secret to success he learned from his former boss, Elon Musk: ‘He demands to only work with world-class talent’

Jon McNeill (Credit: Felix Wong/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)

With a sprawling empire spanning electric vehicles, rockets, artificial intelligence, and social media, Elon Musk has built a reputation as one of the most influential—and unconventional business leaders of the modern era. And as SpaceX eyes a potentially record-setting public offering, the billionaire’s path to potentially becoming the world’s first trillionaire is once again fueling fascination with how he built his success.

But few people have witnessed how Musk operates up close quite like Jon McNeill.

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