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After reading it twice…

The charitable interpretation is this is addressed and intended to apply to the executive staff only. Which isn’t unreasonable given their higher responsibilities and likely higher monetary compensation.

But I bet everyone just jumps to assuming he means everyone working for Tesla and makes a huge deal about this. Because hating on Elon gets clicks and thus ad revenue…

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He means everyone.

"If there are exceptional contributors" - one would hope that the entire executive team is exceptional in his eyes, or why are they executives? And he wouldn't need to specify "I will approve them directly" - executives outside of policy would already be approved by Musk. He's saying "I have to approve it, not you."

This is a directive, not "hey you guys, and only you guys".

He mentions reviewing exceptions for "particularly exceptional contributors" it's intended to be communicated down.

Also worth remembering that Tesla’s original eng culture was about collocating design and production. Remote makes their culture look a lot more like a standard auto company.

I wonder if it's ambiguous to the exec team as well and they're all hurriedly trying to guess what it means

And also because he's explicitly made similar statements about non-executive staff, including purely hypothetical staff, e.g. the staff at twitter.

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