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And at Elon in general...
by SirLJ 9y ago
And at Elon in general...
- TeMPOraL 9y agoWell, if today you don't believe what Elon says wrt. space then you have to be completely out of touch with reality. I would be surprised of Woźniak dismissed SpaceX.
- SirLJ 9y agoHow many times Musk says something and doesn't deliver? Missing Mars and not knowing what are you doing is just the latest example... Musk is where hype goes to die...
- adventured 9y agoWell let's see. He delivered the Roadster. He delivered one of the highest rated, safest, highest performance cars in history with the S. He's delivering the 3. He's very clearly going to deliver on the semi-truck and the new Roadster. He delivered on dramatic battery distance capability for the S and 3, proving a lot of skeptics wrong. There was near universal skepticism that an electric car could do what the S proved it could in terms of distance, until Musk & Co. delivered on that. From early on, few thought Tesla as a business would make it this far. Survival was unexpected, much less thriving. Instead, they're chasing down $15 to $18 billion in sales for fiscal 2018. Up from $3 billion in 2014. And they've completely altered the entire multi-trillion dollar automobile industry, refocusing it nearly entirely on an all-electric future for every automaker. He delivered on the Australian power arrangement. In fact, it has worked so well, Australia is interested in more and bigger arrangements. He delivered on Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and reusable rockets. All of which proved a lot of skeptics wrong. Almost nobody thought SpaceX would pull off reusable rockets in the beginning. All in all, extraordinarily embarrassing for the people that have repeatedly doubted Musk. His batting average is tremendous when it comes to actually delivering, this is especially true given the nature of the things in question.
- SirLJ 9y agoWell, let's see, who do you believe Steve Wozniak or Elon Musk Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: ‘I don’t believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says’ https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/apples-steve-wozniak-doesnt-believe-anything-elon-musk-or-tesla-say.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/31/apples-steve-wozniak-doesnt-... Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak: There's 'way too much hype' around Elon Musk's Tesla https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/25/steve-wozniak-theres-way-too-much-hype-around-elon-musks-tesla.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/25/steve-wozniak-theres-way-too... "In a lot of ways, Tesla is behind companies like Volvo and Audi." -Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple I know: the truth hurts...
- AntonyGarand 9y agoI'm not sure what your arguments are here Sure, Steve doesn't believe Elon, but Elon still did accomplish incredible stuff which can't be denied nor ignored
- SirLJ 9y agoGive up on Tesla’s dream ahead of earnings, strategist warns https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/07/give-up-on-teslas-dream-ahead-of-earnings-strategist-warns.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/07/give-up-on-teslas-dream-ahea...
- detritus 9y agoSorry - what exactly has Woz contributed over the last n decades? I love the guy, but your point of comparison here is .. well, futile.
- SirLJ 9y agoSimply put: Woz = genius Musk = B.S. artist with a stunt before earnings...
- deadmetheny 9y ago>He's delivering the 3 That is debatable. The goal was to be delivering 5000 by last December. They've currently delivered something like 200 out of a half-million preorders. I like what Tesla is doing but people absolutely should be skeptical of Musk w.r.t. Tesla.
- mikeash 9y agoWhat do you mean by “missing Mars”? That seems to imply that the intent was to hit Mars, which is not the case.
- SirLJ 9y agoThe hype was precisely this: "Falcon Heavy sends a car to Mars" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960579820487954432?lang=en https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960579820487954432?lang=...
- mikeash 9y agoThey’ve been abundantly clear since the test payload was announced that it was not actually going to Mars, but rather into a heliocentric orbit with an aphelion around Mars’s orbit.
- SirLJ 9y agoElon Musk On Feb 2018 1:24 PM "Falcon Heavy sends a car to Mars" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960579820487954432?lang=en https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960579820487954432?lang=...