The America Party is right out of the 'Musk playbook'

Elon Musk's America Party is page out of the Tesla CEO's "playbook," Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a Yale School of Management leadership professor, told BI.

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• Elon Musk has announced his plan to form a new political party as he continues to feud with President Trump.
• It reflects a pattern in Musk's career of founding or buying entities to solve what he views as a big-picture problem.
• He founded SpaceX, Neuralink, and the Boring Company to focus on singular issues.