I worked with Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick in my 20s. Here's what I learned from them about building a company.
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Jacob Zinkula
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I spent my 20s working at Tesla, Apple, CloudKitchens, and Rivian to learn from top founders before launching my own AI manufacturing startup.
Adi Prasad, CEO of Matter, merges first-principles thinking (Musk, Tesla) with ROI scaling (Kalanick, CloudKitchens) to build AI autonomous factories for drone and robotics assembly. AI-enabled reshoring shifts supply chain strategy from labor arbitrage to software-native manufacturing competency.
I worked with Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick in my 20s. Here's what I learned from them about building a company.
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Jacob Zinkula
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