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I don't mean to nitpick but is Elon always this bad of a presenter? He sounds sickly and hungover and unpracticed. A strange performance for probably one of the
by stevebmark 10y ago
I don't mean to nitpick but is Elon always this bad of a presenter? He sounds sickly and hungover and unpracticed. A strange performance for probably one of the most important ventures in recent human history.
- iamcreasy 10y agoQuote from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12592996 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12592996 "I think its kind of encouraging to see that you don't have to be a great public speaker to get people to listen to you, as long as you are able to accomplish things off the stage."
- Hondor 10y agoSounding sickly and unpracticed might be a problem in a high school speech contest but here he still gave an engaging talk that clearly a lot of people enjoyed listening to. So it wasn't bad. Just an unconventional style. Try listening to political speeches from half a century ago and see how offensively arrogant they sound, or Chinese speeches today. Fashions change and it's not bad as long as people enjoy it.