Musk is going to discover (and maybe admit?) that fixing Twitter is harder than he thought.
Yeah I think he's going to intensely focus on Twitter for ~6 months, not change much, get bored, and then move onto something else.
Yeah I think he's going to intensely focus on Twitter for ~6 months, not change much, get bored, and then move onto something else.
I really don't get where this meme of "impulsive, erratic, hotheaded Musk" comes from given he demonstrated ability to stick with a business in the toughest of times.
Tesla was literally days away from bankruptcy at one time and Musk made it work.
After first 3 failed launches he was about to run out of money and yet he financed another launch, which worked.
He hasn't had a business failure yet.
Is that a guy who gets bored and moves on to something else?
Twitter is fundamentally trying to solve a people problem, which is much fuzzier. Every impression I've had from "public Elon" is that he is absolutely wretched at people-problems-at-scale. I'm also not sure there is any human ever who has been able to solve people problems at Twitter's scale.
keynesianism eventually failed because corporations and large capital holders will not act rationally towards the whole when they have interests that benefit themselves. so I suppose you’re right. but that doesn’t change the fact that for a good 30 years his ideas and solutions made life better for a huge number of people
Though he's the CEO of SpaceX, it's really run by Gwynne Shotwell.
You look at his wikipedia, and there's like 10 different things he's currently involved with, so yes, he looks like a guy that gets bored and moves on the other things.
I expect creating tunnels 20 years from now as important as right now.
Traffic jams are not going away magically, but automation can bring the cost of creating tunnels down, which can increase the total market significantly.
Time is helping the company (just like other projects Elon has started), so there's no rush to scale up and turn profit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_and_12th_Street_Expressway...
> Motorways and bypasses generate traffic, that is, produce extra traffic, partly by inducing people to travel who would not otherwise have done so by making the new route more convenient than the old, partly by people who go out of their direct route to enjoy the greater convenience of the new road, and partly by people who use the towns bypassed because they are more convenient for shopping and visits when through traffic has been removed
These photos illustrate it well:
https://www.streetroots.org/news/2015/04/03/streets-are-ever...
Pretty easy to get rid of traffic jams actually, you just get rid of the cars. Never been stuck in traffic in places where there aren't cars.
If you’re going to have a 4 lane road reserve two of the lanes for super high capacity vehicles (busses).
Traffic jams are a byproduct of the limits of physics. Once you reach a certain density it is simply impossible to provide enough private car parking and lane capacity.
What makes you believe this? And that Musk was responsible for it?
So, the LVCC was built at 0.54 km/month, while the Channel tunnel was buildlt at 0.7 km/month.
Which part is false?
However, if we look at freight+people crossing the tunnels, the Channel tunnel surely wins again - it may be roughly 10 times more expensive per km, but it carries orders of magnitudes more, by rail + by car.
For all practical purposes, doesn't Shotwell run SpaceX and Elon just shows up to give "input", whenever the capital raise du-jour is necessary, and to do the marketing and PR?
It does seem to me he will need another Shotwell for either Tesla or Twitter, though. You can be CEO of as many companies as you want, but if the CEO is also doing the Operations part of the work, then you're constrained to pretty much one company at a time. I wonder if we'll see Jack come back to Twitter.
No.
I don't feel like Musk has really changed, he's always been a bit nuts. He just has a bigger reach now.
Hard stuff takes time. People with no patience and perseverance never gets big stuff done. Musk is not the same.
Basically Musk said that he was just insulting him in a general sense and that the man was not a pedophile
His behavior like… every day and the fact that he apparently accidentally just bought a $44B company doesn’t at least let you see where people are coming from?
The same guy who tweeted "Funding secured". His tweets about starting boring company, and buying twitter. His email exchanges that are now public. He is VERY impulsive and erratic (maybe not hotheaded).
All his tweets on Bitcoin:
https://www.rockwelltrading.com/articles/coffee-with-markus/...
I don't know why people say this when stuff goes wrong for him all the time. He literally just failed to get out of this Twitter deal.
He hasn't given up on self-driving after it turned out to be much harder than he thought. He's still pouring money and time into it.
And he hasn't given up on Starlink, even though it is not nearly as profitable as he hoped originally. He's just launching more satellites.
And he hasn't given up on Starship even though it is years late. He's doubling down on its development.
But I conceded that he might not see Twitter as critical for his ultimate goals. Maybe he'll just sell it to a bigger fool in a few years?
SpaceX also beat Boeing with a smaller budget (NASA gave more to Boeing) in sending astronauts to the ISS. Boeing still is not able to get a successful test launch 2 years after SpaceX got the first astronauts to ISS from US domestic soil.
Then there's Tesla, where the Model Y, despite being double the price of a Corolla, outsold the Corolla - https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/10/tesla-model-y-passing-...
If you can stumble into so many achievements by luck. Or just by oh, lean on a few Shotwells and engineers.... then why are companies like Meta and Snap etc in the trash bin? Why is Boeing still stuck on the ground? Why after a half a decade of Tesla killers than nobody is getting killed but legacy automakers (all declining revenue and deliveries).
> https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-snake-charger-elon-musk/
> https://insideevs.com/news/326869/elon-musk-comments-on-fail...
The latter he said was due to low uptake (which is nonsense - you can find YouTube videos of how unfindable the place is).
> https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1017149641991680002
More stuff he has given up on.
Musk's time is valuable given that he's leading a lot of companies. He's not going to sit around and mull over twitter. The best thing he can do is spend time => chart a plan => hire a capable CEO who is best at execution (Tim Cook for instance). If he spends more time on twitter, his other bets will get hurt disproportionately.
It’s politics, politics, politics. From all angles and perspectives, in the possibly most annoying way. You have to make so many politics and policy decisions that all have many up- and downsides and that are just plain hard to make.
From a technology perspective Twitter is not at all interesting and the rest is just plain annoying. Plus, it’s a small social network, mostly relevant because important people (imagine myself rolling my eyes here) are on it. So doing other social media stuff that rely on network effects? (Messenger, payment, ...) Not really realistic. Not because the technology is infeasible. None of this is a technological challenge. It’s just politics and network effects.