[trentnix]

I find analysis of this type petty and stupid. It’s like arguing Doyle Brunson was just really lucky.

How much success, across multiple decades in so many different fields of business and technology, must someone acquire before meeting your standards?

I feel like I’m reading comments on Slashdot about Bill Gates in 1999. But in comparison, Elon Musk is wildly more successful than 1999 Bill Gates.

[kjeetgill]

Agreed. Impulsive, careless, fraudulent? Sure that's fine to have opinions and thoughts on, he's a public figure and we have a right to gossip and all. But incompetent? I feel like you need a bit more factual meat to something like that. That's a stretch. You can fail upwards in a lot of crowded fields, especially software startups, but Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink? Give the man some credit.

[jbreckmckye]

I said "on technology, incompetent" and I think that is corroborated by Ashlee Vance's authorized (and highly sympathetic) biography

[jbreckmckye]

Perhaps a less petty analysis is to ponder why Tesla is yet to issue any stock dividends.