I think he is expecting people to have some critical thinking to not starting to send emails to a VP just for the sake of sending emails to a VP.
Let's say you are implementing the UI for the car's dashboard and you think it would be super cool to have the color of the cars' model in the UI matching the exact color the customer chose for the car. Maybe you could cut all the middle points of communication and directly email the guys that handle the paint job to know the exact color values that they use to paint the car.
Of course that you wouldn't email Elon himself to do this, it would be pointless.
Let's say you are implementing the UI for the car's dashboard and you think it would be super cool to have the color of the cars' model in the UI matching the exact color the customer chose for the car. Maybe you could cut all the middle points of communication and directly email the guys that handle the paint job to know the exact color values that they use to paint the car.
Of course that you wouldn't email Elon himself to do this, it would be pointless.