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Yes, a massive success like SolarCity, Hyperloop, Boring company, the car-subway they built in Vegas, the spacex-edition-tesla with a 10K PSI tank onboard for cold gas thrusters, and of course how could we forget the flawless, glorious success of self driving cars that don't need a human in them.

The guy has the same ratio of good:bad ideas as everybody else, he just has more money to burn on them.

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Most entrepreneurs have a batting average that is closer to .000 than .500.

Perhaps that is because they run out of money and can't keep throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks?

Yes we could easily be looking at Tesla and SpaceX having failed they came so close. I think Musk is obviously an extremist which is fine but sometimes you have a management strategy that works and you apply it in different scenarios and it falls flat. Pissing off and calling out advertisers is probably not ideal, for example.

Yes, it is proven trial and error is the common strategy. The best strategy is trial and 'small' error. An Error that does not usurp your survival and that is different for different people.

For Musk that is more than $44 Billion.

Musk is an INVESTOR not an entrepreneur, for fucks sake

He has founded six companies. You don’t have to like him, but refusing to acknowledge basic facts just makes you look like an idiot.

>the car-subway they built in Vegas

I was recently there.

How insanely hilarious to me that they did all this work... And still use drivers and not automation. It's a loop. If they can't self-drive that with all their own vehicles everywhere, then it's not really coming to actual roads for a LONG time.

Zip2 -> PayPal -> SpaceX all in a row? C'mon; be serious.

Neither the sale of Zip2 nor the success of PayPal had anything to do with Musk. He was simply lucky to be in the Valley with a lot of his parent's money and connections at the right time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-FGwDDc-s8

The same could be said for many other people who had more connections and had more parental money, but they didn't end up where Musk is.

Yes, that’s generally how luck works.

You're a bit harsh though ;)

> Boring company

They built and released a product already. Oh wait, it's not a flamethrower.

https://www.boringcompany.com/not-a-flamethrower

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