[decimalenough]

Reality distortion. Financial shenanigans. Hiring people who can execute.

And, despite all the haters, he does understand rocket science pretty well, and rocket economics even better.

[habinero]

Eh, not really. He managed to hire people who can manage him well enough to get him out of the way.

[decimalenough]

Spin it any way you like, but he's still hiring people who deliver.

[habinero]

It's not really spin. He's the wallet, not the talent.

[decimalenough]

So why did Bezos get nowhere with Blue Origin despite throwing more money at it? Or every car manufacturer that tried to build EVs before Tesla? Or every satellite internet provider before Starlink?

[mensetmanusman]

Apparently nearly zero people can do this.

[stockresearcher]

(2012) https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2012/feature/roc...

> Shotwell had lunch with a co-worker who had just joined the then-startup company SpaceX. They walked by the cubicle of CEO Elon Musk. “I said, ‘Oh, Elon, nice to meet you. You really need a new business developer,’” Shotwell recalls. “It just popped out. I was bad. It was very rude.” Or just bold enough to capture Musk’s attention. He called her later that day in 2002 and recruited her to be vice president of business development, his seventh employee.

Can you imagine something like that working today?