{"id":7671,"date":"2016-04-26T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2016-04-26T14:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T18:50:32","slug":"7-inflection-points-of-elon-musk-what-they-hint-at-but-dont-stress-at-stanford-engineerings-cs183s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/7-inflection-points-of-elon-musk-what-they-hint-at-but-dont-stress-at-stanford-engineerings-cs183s\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Inflection Points of Elon Musk: What They Hint At But Don&#8217;t Stress at Stanford Engineering&#8217;s CS183s&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Engineers who sell is a thing, now.<br \/>\nEngineers who crossover into sales, selling and being CEO was always a thing.<br \/>\nAdvocating that undergrad engineers do sales and promotion work will never be trendy.<\/p>\n<p>This is counter intuitive knowledge about Elon Musk = He has a lot of practice at sales.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<td><b>Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/725019025235841024?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">4\/26\/16, 10:49 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>What They Hint At But Don&#8217;t Stress at Stanford Engineering&#8217;s CS183s&#8217; About Sales Skills Elon Practiced <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ApahX9DW8h\">pic.twitter.com\/ApahX9DW8h<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"989979DE-2FCB-4E44-8E05-B0FC4AE607E8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image168.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>7 Inflection Points of Elon Musk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How Elon Musk started (artist credit Anna Vital)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/elon-musk-career-inflection-points-all-had-sales-promotion-work-cs183-s.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/elon-musk-career-inflection-points-all-had-sales-promotion-work-cs183-s.png\" alt=\"elon-musk-career-inflection-points-all-had-sales-promotion-work-cs183-s\" width=\"900\" height=\"1243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/elon-musk-career-inflection-points-all-had-sales-promotion-work-cs183-s.png 900w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/elon-musk-career-inflection-points-all-had-sales-promotion-work-cs183-s-217x300.png 217w, https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/elon-musk-career-inflection-points-all-had-sales-promotion-work-cs183-s-741x1024.png 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eudADPfTWiE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang Engineers who sell is a thing, now. Engineers who crossover into sales, selling and being CEO was always a thing. Advocating that undergrad engineers do sales and promotion work will never be trendy. This is counter intuitive knowledge about Elon Musk = He has a lot of practice at sales. Larry Chiang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}