Elon Musk has been lying about his college degrees
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And how much money Starlink make (or not) could be seen recently when Musk was coercing Pentagon to pay for Ukrainian internet.
In regards to the offer of free service to Ukrane. Thousands of base stations were given for free to the Ukrainian forces, but the demand was way higher than anticipated to the point of being punitive. So when the Pentagon most likey has a budget for this sort of thing, why would you not ask for them to cover cost? Just in this critisim alone there's an interesting point, starlink works and is high demand.
Love him or hate him, despite the fact that he talks off the cuff and doesn't always deliver, has as delivered several times in very big ways. Even if you think somehow other people's brilliance are behind the success of these achievement, you still have to contend with the fact that he has been in leadership at several companies that have completely changed their industry's for the better. Why is Musk at the helm for each of these game changing achievements? Low orbit high speed satellite internet with thousands of satellites, rockets with resusable landing boosters, a very functional and reliable ISS resupply mission, a car company that survived through a financial collapse and has proven the viability of mass production general purpose long range vehicles. Not everything he touches turns to gold, but enough of it is that it needs to be taken seriously.
You can dislike him, he is wacky, but these are facts. Not recognizing these things makes it plain that these criticisms are in bad faith or are based on ignorance.
A. Review: from college to Zip2 (9-12)
B. No visa (13-16)
C. No Physics degree (17-30)
D. No PhD acceptance (31-44)
E. Quitting Twitter’s board (45-48)
He was never accepted for admission in to any Stanford PhD program as per court depositions.
Making your imaginary degree your whole personality, on the other hand, might lead to the kind of self-delusion that would prevent one from accurately judging one’s own competence. And then one might end up blowing $44 billion destroying a company you thought was simple because you don’t understand web-scale software, the basics of how to manage a business or how laws work.
Elon Musk has the opposite of imposter’s syndrome, and a whole lot of people have just lost their jobs because of it.
The author of this article is severely biased, he makes it look as if Gawker was innocent and makes it look as if Thiel "destroyed" them because of "hating free speech".
And since mainstream media journos are proven liars and manipulators calling them "terrorists" is not much of a stretch.
Musk is now voting for Republicans while he himself was an undocumented worker between 1995 and 1997.
Good riddance TBH but it wasn't a case of mainstream journalist lying, it was quite the opposite: New media journos were exposing truths about the celebrities and the rich and one of those(ironically, a self proclaimed free speech advocate) went after them and destroyed them for exposing private things they wished remain secret.
And was an undocumented worker for 2 years!
Elon Musk's first company was actually called Zip2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Zip2
In 1995, Musk, his brother Kimbal, and Greg Kouri founded Zip2.[44][45] Errol Musk provided them with $28,000 in funding.[46] The company developed an Internet city guide with maps, directions, and yellow pages, and marketed it to newspapers.[47] They worked at a small rented office in Palo Alto,[48] Musk coding the website every night.[48] Eventually, Zip2 obtained contracts with The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune.[39] The brothers persuaded the board of directors to abandon a merger with CitySearch;[49] however, Musk's attempts to become CEO were thwarted.[50] Compaq acquired Zip2 for $307 million in cash in February 1999,[51][52] and Musk received $22 million for his 7-percent share.[53]
Common sense should also tell you, no legitimate tax paying business allows a mildly educated middle class family to go to one of the poorest countries in the world and leave multimillionaires when 90% of the population lives in poverty and is under a violent racial apartheid system.
It isn't evidence of anything because it isn't really information, it's just your opinion that you don't believe things you've heard.