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by woooooo 1035 days ago
Not a fanboy but he definitely did something with SpaceX and Tesla. Both companies were laughable ideas that would clearly never work.
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He used them to brand himself as Cool Sci-fi CEO. His Cool Sci-Fi CEO branding may have had a positive impact on the company.

I'd like to see any evidence that any other contributions of his were actually positive.

Bezos has had a rocket company for over a decade and never reached orbit.

I agree that Musk looks like an ass with Twitter but it's a heck of a coincidence that both Tesla and SpaceX were successful doing things nobody thought was possible.

Having spent some time in corporate america, it's a pretty low bar for execs in technical fields. Maybe he just had to be reasonably bright and focused on the mission instead of internal politics.

> it's a heck of a coincidence

I could make the same argument for me. It's a heck of a coincidence the place where I work had no product or revenue or customers before they hired me and a few years later suddenly we have 5 products, huge contracts, and are one of the most hot brand names in our AI niche.

But is my contribution interchangeable with any rando or am I a 10x engineer? Was my contribution even net positive or did others on my team carry my dead weight to the finish line?