Tl,dr: Musk is irratic and has no plan, per a journalist who has covered him for five years.

  • Tammo-Korsai@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    “It’s remarkable how many people who’ve never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who’s run Tesla and SpaceX,”

    Running a company doesn’t necessarily indicate you are good at it. I don’t need to be a pilot to understand that diving into the ground is a fatal idea.

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      1 year ago

      Indeed, SpaceX was indeed almost bankrupt. It only succeeded because the last attempt to launch and land a reusable rocket got them a massive cash injection from NASA. But if that launch had failed like the ones before it, that would have been the end of SpaceX.

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      It’s almost like a ceo is only as good as the product and the people they surround themselves with.

      Twitter could never be a profitable business, the numbers don’t work. No one with visionary talent wants to associate themselves with Musk’s right wing tweets.

      Musk isn’t a genius, he’s a person who started with money and made much more money on a few things that went right and many more that didnt.

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        1 year ago

        Just to add to that, They also quote Paul Graham from 3 days ago:

        Surely someone who can figure out how to build spaceships can figure out how to distinguish scrapers from legit users. The patterns must be so different.