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by chneu
526 days ago
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Musk isn't a good engineer. Lol. He's never really invented anything, just given money/resources to smarter people. Musk is good at sounding smart. He isn't a talented engineer. A good recent example would be Musk getting caught paying someone to rank up his video game accounts while taking credit. That's very on point for Musk. Pay someone, take credit. The Tesla naming is funny because musk is more of the "Evil Edison" than he is a Tesla. I put Edison in quotes because Edison isn't nearly as bad as Tesla fanboys like to think. |
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The absolute shitton of failed car and rocket companies, including by people better financed then Musk, indicates this.
I guess you can say 'its just luck', but given that we are talking about two capital intensive industries that were widely considered almost impossible to break into, you would have to argue that he was lucky twice. I guess one can have that position, but I don't really think that's credible.
I guess one can say he isn't a great engineer but good CEO? Because he is the longest running CEO of the space and the car industry, and both companies over the last 20 years have been pretty successful.
Taking Bezos as a comparison, Bezos has been dropping like 1-2 billion per year into Blue Origin for almost 10 years and had a workforce comparable to SpaceX, who were the leader in rockets, sats and space transport of cargo and humans. SpaceX was started with less then 100 million $.
As some point just saying 'he had resources' just doesn't work. At some point you have to evolve your explication.