SolarCity, Hyperloop, and Boring Company are obvious duds as well.
It's hard to say how many duds he had in the aughts, since they're probably well-buried at this point.
It's hard to say how many duds he had in the aughts, since they're probably well-buried at this point.
I don’t like Musk but I think the leftist vilification and dismissal bears all the sounds of people who have no idea how hard it is to build and maintain a successful company.
These are in fact different tangential topics similar to how whether or not AOC likes Musk is tangential to whether or not Solar City was a dud of a company.
You need not like Bill Cosby to objectively state he had a long successful career.
This is hackernews not cable TV. You do not need to regurgitate "talking points".
That's not how that discussion would actually go. Need has nothing to do with it, and the same holds true with Musk. The detached attacks don't need to be brought up in regards to a discussion about Musk & SpaceX, and yet they are guaranteed to come up regardless.
There is no discussion today of any meaningful length that is going to happen on a major public forum (eg Reddit) regarding Trump's border wall where the events of January 6 do not come up as a prominent matter of discussion.
The reason this happens is because the target (Trump, Musk, whatever) triggers people to such an extreme emotional degree they can't control themselves properly, they can no longer think & express rationally. They have basically been trained into a hyper emotional response by the mob they participate with. It's some manner of one-upmanship, virtue signaling as competition: who can most greatly beat this target to death, using any means necessary.
Let's reflect on how we got here.
1) xutopia is making the claim [1] (on a thread about how Twitter's rebrand could be a nightmare) that Musk's actions would've costed any other CEO their job.
2) mettamage countered with Musk has only had 1 dud company so far [2]
3) And that leads us to this oversized thread where yes Musk has had many dud companies and "only 1" isn't correct.
Whether or not Musk is correct on the Thai diver being a pedophile would not belong in this oversized thread though and as you may not have yet noticed; wasn't brought up. It is in fact possible to have a discussion on a forum (perhaps not major) without bringing up tangential points. Some people can control themselves and so far in this oversized thread they have; it's been very on point besides this meta discussion.
Now, that may be a skill in and of itself, but that's not a skill for innovation, it's a skill for timing markets.
If money alone was enough we’d see more Teslas from places like Saudia Arabia. But we don’t.
If you are interested in what successful ratfucking psyops looks like, check out Caltrans’s recent obsession with hydrogen trains.