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He does not have in dept understanding of his product. He is massively charismatic, good at impressing people and very good at playing people. And most CEOs does not seem that bad compared to Musk.

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He takes questions at Tesla earnings calls that other CEOs would delegate to lower level executives, and can talk about rocket science when prompted (see Tim Dodd's videos). That's not to say he's an expert on everything, one thing to note is he's also been working at those companies since the start. In my view, a big part of why his companies are successful is he actually does understand the product portfolio to a great depth that most CEOs who simply do management don't. I'm not talking to the level of "I can code this myself", I simply mean "I understand the software used to make this, how it talks with X and why we do Y instead of Z". It's easy to bash on people because you don't like them, but it doesn't make for a convincing argument with blanket statements like that.

Every single time he talked about something I understand, it was good sounding bs. He is good at pop science talk and at impressing people. But he is neither engineer nor scientist. Not even close.

> He takes questions at Tesla earnings calls that other CEOs would delegate to lower level executives

He can lie better and he is controlling micromanager.

We can agree to disagree, then. I’m interested to hear who you think does it better than Musk? So far, it seems he’s doing something right.

Tim Cook has certainly not taken 22Bn off the top of his legally compelled purchase lately.

(i’m very much not holding my breath for the vr/ar goggle thing, though)

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