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Elon is a fake person created by VCs to fulfill their goals.

> Elon is a fake person created by VCs to fulfill their goals.

I'm gonna give you a bucket full of benefit of doubt and assume you mean nothing negative by this. I'm all for fake people fulfilling VCs goals if that means we can have better and more exciting future (which Musk has delivered to date).

It's worth mentioning that many other "real" people with "no" hidden agendas have done ... jack shit over the past 20 years. :)

What did he deliver?

Assuming you’re sincerely asking this to learn, I suggest you ask Google, and read some Wikipedia to boot.

Ok, his rich family gave him some money to invest and got lucky with paypal. Then he became a hypeman for Tesla and routinely lied about full self driving in order to keep Tesla from bankruptcy and produced unsafe and poorly built cars. Then lied about trucks, roadsters, and solar roofs. He's speed running the history of tunnels and trains and will find out that, yes, putting independent cars in a tunnel is a dumb idea. Hyperloops? Seriously? Buying twitter blue checkmarks only to introduce another checkmark for verificaiton. Hm..Space-X is sorta futuristic? He hasn't proven reusable rockets have saved orders of magnitude of money.

:D this is like giving someone a smartphone and watching them trying to crack open nuts with it. Sad but also hilarious.

What are alternatives to Falcon Heavy?

It’s undeniable, no matter what you think of the character, that he created huge momentum in the transition to EVs.

Also, rockets.

and Zuckerberg is somehow real and authentic? First time i've ever heard that one.

Realistically this cut was probably done in time to offer a decent severance without hurting things on the corporate side -- to compare this to Twitter's post-Elon crash-plan is disingenuous, and i'm not even a Musk fan.

I laughed so hard at this comment, thank you for a little bit of humor in these ominous times.

Its kinda true though. He's been the poster "white night entrepreneur", egged on by every other nerd who still believes in the exceptional founder myth. That myth motivates a ton of folks to give up their lives and time to try and build something on pretty bleak terms.

i would never trust Elon's word and he has some big flaws as a person but his goals are so ambitious and risky, small thinking VC's would never invest in those , all VC's want are relatively safe software (SAAS) companies.

Mind elaborating on the "fake person" part?

Troll post of the year!

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