According to SpaceX's original Mars timeline, they're going to start colonizing Mars next year. So color me unimpressed that people are reporting on SpaceX optimizing boosters.
'Yeah your car can go 1000 miles per gallon, but you promised be 10000 next year so color me unimpressed'. Doesn't that sound crazy?
And yet, he is the longest serving CEO in the car industry and the space industry (at least large companies) and he has been incredibly stable and predictable in working on EV and rockets for 25+ years.
And not only that, during that time both major companies experience incredibly success in that time period.
And yet somehow people think its reasonable to call him unstable, inconsistent, loss canon and so on.
I guess what you write on twitter matters more then what you do with 100B$+ cooperation's.
FSD might be considered a failure, but that's within the larger success of Tesla and it has not yet been fully decided. So far Tesla is likely making more money from self-driving research then anybody else.
Boring company isn't a huge success, but calling it a failure is also not accurate.
And what 'public meltdowns' are you referring to exactly? Like taking one hit of a joint? Or what?
Once you're rich enough, you're insulated from the consequences of your actions.
And likely he believes (based on good evidence) that he can make the company successful. He might be wrong or it will turn out he will be wrong.
> Once you're rich enough, you're insulated from the consequences of your actions.
That's a totally different argument then the one you made before.
And, by judging from Twitter, that's a good thing.