Elon Musk draws both ire and admiration, but few would accuse the world’s richest man of lacking perseverance. Leading Tesla and SpaceX from easy-to-dismiss startups to hard-to-ignore giants in the previously obscure fields of electric vehicles and commercial space flight, respectively, required a high degree of stubbornness.
Marc Andreessen, the billionaire cofounder of venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, believes Musk’s refusal to give up is what propelled the two companies to success. And in a time when many startup founders are taught to “fail fast” and move on, Andreessen thinks Musk serves as an instructive lesson on doing just the opposite.
