Why Elon Musk Doesn't Like to Follow Business Plans: ‘These Things Are Always Wrong'

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Elon Musk stopped making business plans after selling his web software company Zip2 to Compaq for $307 million in 1999. Here’s why.

— often conducting extensive research before launching or investing in a business. For him, the key is to leave it"open for change," so you can adapt when your original plan starts to go awry.

Richard Branson, another billionaire, is also known as a huge proponent of writing down his business plans."A business plan doesn't have to be a lengthy, well-thought-out proposal,"."it can be as simple as some notes in a notebook, or a scribble on the back of an envelope." Branson added that you shouldn't need to wait to have a formal, perfected plan to get started — an idea also championed by other billionaire entrepreneurs like Meta co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman,Instead of writing a business plan, Musk said, aspiring entrepreneurs should ask themselves some simple questions before getting started.

 

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