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Title of Elon Musk Has Changed to Technoking of Tesla

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I can't wait until he starts wearing a crown and carrying a scepter. Perhaps he'll starting conferring honorary titles upon his employees and members of the general public. All in all he's got a great sense of humour.

Synopsis: Effective as of March 15, 2021, the titles of Elon Musk and Zach Kirkhorn have changed to Technoking of Tesla and Master of Coin, respectively. Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

Now that's a title I would like to have on my business card.

It just states upfront that you don't give a shit. :-)

This is getting worse than mainstream celebrity press.

The Musk haters will never like him so he might as well feed the trolls.

Today there is a launch for a VW EV. It is very nice but way off what the equivalent Tesla is. But none of the Tesla/Musk haters with their old fashioned cars can admit that the Tesla product is awesome. It is very interesting to see how people twist their views to be absurd. For this reason I am glad Musk triggers them with nonsense like this.

Well people that buy cars actually like the VW's more, look up sales/registration data in Europe.

Doesn't mean everyone has to report every joke or opinion a tech CEO makes (it's not just Musk). I don't mind him doing it if he thinks its funny, I mind people acting as if it's notable (which is why I choose the comparison to celebrity news: I'm also not objecting to these people having lives and doing stuff, but to the reporting and framing and it getting spread everywhere)

I think you would classify me as one of those haters. I don't actually hate Tesla, I just think the valuation is a bubble and stuff like this reinforces my opinion.

When it comes to investments, I want substance: Don't call it autopilot if it is not an autopilot. Don't invest in stuff without inherent value. If you sell way less, then you should probably worth way less. I am just a very boring person in that way.

Outside of the stock valuation (and maybe the environmental damage, Bitcoin causes), I find all of it very entertaining.

Reminds me of when subway said my role was sandwich artist and I had that on my resume for a few years

Is that supposed to be the King of Technology or the King of Techno Music?

My friends gave me the tongue-in-cheek nickname of "Technothrasher" many years ago in college, which I now use for my handle on many websites. I often get asked the very same question that you just asked.

> Elon and Zach will also maintain their respective positions as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer.

I suspect King of Technology - but perhaps he's creating a grey area to give himself lateral tactical space to negotiate his posture against the SEC.

The royal title attributes color to his musical genius in the A16ztech Empire (previously before Dogecoin, Rebel Allstar Technologies).

If anyone has the wikipedia credit please change his official title in the bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

They've protected the page due to vandalism.

He should have gone with Technoviking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjCdB5p2v0Y

"The Martian government was directed by ten men, the leader of whom was elected by universal suffrage for five years and entitled 'Elon.' Two houses of Parliament enacted the laws to be administered by the Elon and his cabinet."

Ref https://twitter.com/tobyliiiiiiiiii/status/13441550614258237...

Got to love the geek in Elon for trolling the haters using SEC official channels :-)

Why not technocrat?

I hope we see more companies introduce non-standard vanity titles. As stupid as it sounds, I may be a bit more interested in climbing a corporate ladder just to have a cool sounding title different from the usual corporate crap.

The people who successfully climb the ladder don't care about titles.

Obviously the Technoking and the Master of Coin does

Agree it seems fun, but the usual corporate crap titles are there so that everyone understands what they are. Shared meaning - literally the foundation of language.

The novelty of having to learn each company's made-up titles would wear off quick.

>>> the usual corporate crap titles are there so that everyone understands what they are.

yeah, sure :^)

In theory, maybe. In practice, a lot of them mean basically nothing transferable. (See "VP of X", which doesn't tell you if the company has 5 VPs or 500, or the muddle of what constitutes a "Senior Engineer" or "Staff Engineer". "Empress of the Shopping-Cart-Subsystem" communicates more)

I worked at a company where they decided to change their titles away from industry standard norms (specific to their industry). They quickly changed back because it made working with their customers really hard. I walk into a meeting and I'm expecting a Clinical Lead and a Data Manager and I'm introduced to a Loremaster and a Sheriff of the Aethertech am I in the right meeting? Are these the right people? Not that they had such flamboyant titles but even a small deviation from the industry norm led to a lot of confusion and I suspect employees also felt it limited their career prospects since it wasn't so easy to communicate their experience. If I am a Data Manager then I want to apply for Senior Data Manager positions. If I'm a "Data Custodian" then I have to work much harder with recruiters who have been told to consider "Data Managers" for the role.

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