Elon Musk Wanted to Buy the Onion, Now Poaching Staffers for a Secret Project
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Okay, some kind of reverse Thiel thing maybe. The Onion is under the Univison umbrella following the asset re-allocation of post Gawker lawsuit bankruptcy, so why not just go in with cash and buy it outright? Does not compute.
It didn't work for Pitchfork and The Dissolve so well.
That being noted, weaponising sarcasm is a great use of capital, time and effort. There's no way it could possibly backfire.
I say this as a guy who admires him a lot, but it's plainly obvious that he knows how to control the narrative to divert attention away from business problems. It's very intriguing to watch.
Experts use carefully chosen examples based on a lot of research. I can't see how launching his car into space or selling flame throwers based on a clip from Spaceballs require careful thought to come up with the idea.
These are pretty great in hindsight but coming up with and pushing through these ideas are not without a big chance of looking like an idiot.
I'm reconning at the moment though that a second hand model S might be a better bet than a model 3
It read like alt-news to me.
You're thinking of clickbait bullshit.