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If it flops, so what? We will have gained knowledge on some pitfalls. If someone dares to try again, we won’t have to start from the beginning. I also don’t ag

If it flops, so what? We will have gained knowledge on some pitfalls. If someone dares to try again, we won’t have to start from the beginning. I also don’t agree with your logic of … A person shouldn’t accomplish too much in life? Is that what you are saying?

tzury 9y ago
I am not saying a person should not. I am simply saying a person could not. You can’t effectively run more than two companies at a time. And that is a rare success. Most are struggling running one. And here is a man running 5 or 6 companies each going to revolutionize another area in our life. It’s just don’t fit.
- rwc 9y ago
  Unsolicited internet advice, but sounds like you could learn the art of delegation. Musk is leveraging his considerable cash to do just that.
- criddell 9y ago
  Musk isn't doing this by himself anymore than Trump is personally running the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marines (or are the Marines part of the Navy?).
  - KGIII 9y ago
    They are a part of the Navy, yes.
dogma1138 9y ago
It doesn’t matter both SpaceX and Tesla might flop eventually my money is on Tesla more likely than SpaceX but they’ve effectively were key pioneers in those markets. The “solar roof” is more of a gimmic those tiles are less efficient than other roof mounted cells but they at least are not as ugly so they are a luxury item for people who want to have a nice looking roof over their nice looking house. They also might be a way to get solar installed in some places with very strict homeowners association regulations but they aren’t exactly a paradigm shifting innovation. The Boring Company and the hyperloop might again flop and yes this isn’t as important as SpaceX or Tesla as far as worldwide impact goes but it’s an important step at taking a new approach at the US mass public transport problem. Hyperloop is less important to other parts of the world like Japan or Europe which already have pretty decent high speed rail systems but it might be important for developing regions like Africa, India and China. Many times before pioneers and early innovators were side lined due to various reasons but their impact is not any less meaningful becuase of that. Even if Tesla disappears in 10 years it sparked an arms race in the car industry and even if it flops next year it’s too late for all the other car manufacturers to backtrack on their commitments and investments in getting EV out to the masses. If SpaceX fails it did showed that commercial space flight is possible and that reusing rockets can be done on a commercial and economical scale. For all that either company can still achieve they’ve done more than enough on their part already. As for the Boring company it might fail in a way that some one would pick up the mantle and refine the concept, it might fail in a way that would make people say whelp... this won’t work let’s build a high speed rail system finally but at least it’s not a $400 juice bag squeezer or yet another wireless speaker.

tzury 9y ago

I am not saying a person should not. I am simply saying a person could not. You can’t effectively run more than two companies at a time. And that is a rare success. Most are struggling running one. And here is a man running 5 or 6 companies each going to revolutionize another area in our life. It’s just don’t fit.

rwc 9y ago
Unsolicited internet advice, but sounds like you could learn the art of delegation. Musk is leveraging his considerable cash to do just that.
criddell 9y ago
Musk isn't doing this by himself anymore than Trump is personally running the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marines (or are the Marines part of the Navy?).
- KGIII 9y ago
  They are a part of the Navy, yes.

dogma1138 9y ago

It doesn’t matter both SpaceX and Tesla might flop eventually my money is on Tesla more likely than SpaceX but they’ve effectively were key pioneers in those markets. The “solar roof” is more of a gimmic those tiles are less efficient than other roof mounted cells but they at least are not as ugly so they are a luxury item for people who want to have a nice looking roof over their nice looking house. They also might be a way to get solar installed in some places with very strict homeowners association regulations but they aren’t exactly a paradigm shifting innovation. The Boring Company and the hyperloop might again flop and yes this isn’t as important as SpaceX or Tesla as far as worldwide impact goes but it’s an important step at taking a new approach at the US mass public transport problem. Hyperloop is less important to other parts of the world like Japan or Europe which already have pretty decent high speed rail systems but it might be important for developing regions like Africa, India and China. Many times before pioneers and early innovators were side lined due to various reasons but their impact is not any less meaningful becuase of that. Even if Tesla disappears in 10 years it sparked an arms race in the car industry and even if it flops next year it’s too late for all the other car manufacturers to backtrack on their commitments and investments in getting EV out to the masses. If SpaceX fails it did showed that commercial space flight is possible and that reusing rockets can be done on a commercial and economical scale. For all that either company can still achieve they’ve done more than enough on their part already. As for the Boring company it might fail in a way that some one would pick up the mantle and refine the concept, it might fail in a way that would make people say whelp... this won’t work let’s build a high speed rail system finally but at least it’s not a $400 juice bag squeezer or yet another wireless speaker.