If you think the CEO of Tesla and Founder, CEO, Chief Engineer of SpaceX is a failure, I'm dying to know: What have you accomplished?
And you don't need to be an accomplished CEO in order to see that.
And the only thing that we've seen with Twitter is that it's at an all time high DAU at a fraction of the cost. So far so good.
All of the doomsayers are just making predictions that haven't happened.
And what we have seen is >75% of the staff leave including NOC, SREs etc.
That attrition rate is really unprecedented and completely unsustainable.
Update: Payroll and Tax teams have resigned. Cue the lawsuits.
Wow really? You would really prefer to entertain speculative realities instead of just give credit where it's due?
That's impressive.
Tom Mueller, arguably one of the key engineers behind the success of SpaceX and designer of the Merlin engines, was working at TRW in a role not related to rocket engines before he was at SpaceX. He was building the rockets out of his garage for fun, until Musk convinced him to join him in what was considered a crazy idea back then.
Lars Blackmore, the engineer who was key in developing the the control algorithms needed for landing Falcon vertically was working at NASA, where his work was in theory going to be applied on a future space mission of much smaller scope compared to Falcon. He was able to apply his research (http://larsblackmore.com/iee_tcst13.pdf) on a revolutionary reusable system that changed the launch industry only because a rich kid was willing to spend his money on testing what seemed like always failing rockets, instead of buying a new Yacht.
This is what Wikipedia says about Tom Mueller at TRW
>For 15 years, Mueller worked for TRW Inc., a conglomerate corporation involved in aerospace, automotive, credit reporting, and electronics. He managed the propulsion and combustion products department where he was responsible for liquid rocket engine development.[1] He worked as a lead engineer during the development of the TR-106, a 650,000 lbf (2,900 kN) thrust, throttled, cost-contained hydrogen engine designed in 2000.
Who wouldn't?
Most of us here hang out for listening to fellow hackers who have failed upwards.