You Are the Company You Keep: Elon Musk’s Path to Billion-Dollar Success
Certainly after multiple decades thriving in silicon valley Elon has amassed a number of powerful friends.
Elon’s friends include Richard Branson, Peter Thiel (the first investor in Facebook), Chad Hurley (YouTube co-founder), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn Founder), Chamath (Facebook & Social Capital) and the list goes on.
You are the company you keep is an idiom that has stood the test of time, and it certainly seems to hold true for Elon as well.
The great friends Elon has have helped him achieve great business success. When Tesla was on the verge of bankruptcy Elon was able to convince Larry Page to get Google to agree to buy Tesla…
Unfortunately for Larry the deal never went through…
On the last hour of the last day Elon had to secure financing, on Christmas Eve 2008, Elon was able to get the financing needed to keep Tesla alive. So the Google acquisition of Tesla did not go through.
Surrounding yourself with powerful people is a great way to brainstorm brilliant ideas and help each other realize powerful results.
For better or worse the people you surround yourself with will influence you. So to maximize the positive effects from your friendships, surround yourself with the best people possible and be ruthless about cutting out and unfriending anyone who proves to be negative.
Better to have fewer friends than to have negative friends.
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