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When you include SpaceX and Starlink, it’s pretty obvious he is successful beyond anything we’ve witnessed before, but people take his accomplishments for granted somehow.
Because his primary accomplishments are marketing. (To his credit, he has managed to market quite well not just to consumers but also investors and engineers.) He doesn't build the cars. He doesn't really design the cars, with the notable exception of the one that seems to find a new way every month to draw negative press for being dangerous. He didn't even start the company!
A worrying trend is that the more directly involved Elon is with a product, the worse the product seems to get.
Tesla definitely is daring and trying new things. Although the bar for quality and reliability is not the same as Rockets.
Twitter is just a joke. Little ROI for $44B. Seems like he bought it to stroke his ego.
He could have spent this on a standalone robotics company like SpaceX and would have been a better win.
But it's not my money and being a critic is a lot easier than being in the field. Elon is in the field.
On paper [Elon|Steve] is quite successful. People attribute this success to luck and say [Elon|Steve] isn't doing anything of value. Some people worship him, while others devalue everything he does.
Nobody gets lucky this many times in a row.
> Nobody gets lucky this many times in a row.
If you have enough money and hubris, a whole lot of things will work out for you.
https://allaboutstevejobs.com/persona/steve_at_work#:~:text=....
Doesn’t sound like everyone had fond recollections.
I don't know that much about Musk, but I could imagine that some of his employees will look back at their time at Tesla/SpaceX fondly (provided that both ventures work out in the long-term)
It's hard to take this comment seriously as I watch rockets fly into space on a routine basis, taking humans to the ISS, deploying thousands of satellites which transmit low-latency internet signals across the globe, and watching Tesla go from a doomed-to-fail novelty to having the #1 selling car in the world. Even his oft-lampooned pet project Cybertruck has been a massive success.
You don't have to like the person or even refrain from ridiculing him, but to say he's Tesla's core problem is absurd.
None of his money was made by passively investing in companies, but creating and/or leading them.
Someone (like me) who buy shares in companies without contributing to their leadership and management is an investor.
Someone who creates a company and lead them as CEO or CTO is not "an investor" but a businessman.
>his approach translates poorly to a mature multibillion dollar company
He made these multibillion companies from almost scratch. How can his approach "translate poorly"? Can you name one person who created as many billion-dollar companies as Musk?