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by bobsomers 858 days ago
> The same people that minimize what people like Musk have accomplished.

Oof, I agree in general with what you're saying but Musk is a bad example. His companies have been successful in spite of him, rather than because of him.
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wonderwonder 858 days ago
come on friend. I can understand someone getting lucky, happening to hire the exact right person and the company succeeding due to the hard work of someone else. Once. But this guy is so lucky that he managed to do it in: SpaceX, Paypal, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.

Even if Neuralink and Boring company are not profitable, the sheer scale and potential of the ideas are incredible. I understand why people don't like Musks opinion on many things but to infer that he has somehow become the richest man in the world by accident is disingenuous.

I thoroughly dislike Trump as a person and know that much of what he accomplished was given to him. Even with that said, the guy is successful and became the 45th president of the United States and has a cult like following in a good portion of the US. I have no issue acknowledging his success despite my personal objection to him in general.

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manuelabeledo 858 days ago
> But this guy is so lucky that he managed to do it in: SpaceX, Paypal, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company.

Not so great examples.

The Boring Company only real customer is the city of Las Vegas. Nothing much to show apart from that.

Neuralink is barely a R&D project, and still not making any money.

PayPal wasn't a Musk's venture, x.com was. x.com lasted for a couple years. Musk was the CEO for maybe a year. Essentially, he cashed out on the success of Thiel as CEO after PayPal went public and was sold to eBay.

SpaceX is very much still losing money.

> I understand why people don't like Musks opinion on many things but to infer that he has somehow become the richest man in the world by accident is disingenuous.

Not by accident, and richest only on paper.

But he was indeed incredibly fortunate and somewhat lucky. The fact that he is successful doesn't change that.

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