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I can only think of Elon as the only person to create THREE multi billion dollar companies in wildly different industries. Elon is a fantastic CEO AND visionar

I can only think of Elon as the only person to create THREE multi billion dollar companies in wildly different industries. Elon is a fantastic CEO AND visionary. I personally know people who could be making double specifically work at spacex because they believe in his vision. Elon is able to get Supreme talent and productivity for pennies on the dollar. He’s able to market Tesla and spaceX to billions with such a positive favoriability unlike anything we’ve ever seen. SpaceX and Tesla don’t have a marketing budget because of Elon. Car companies spend billions marketing, Elon tweets saving billions for Tesla which he reinvests in r&d. The entire world will lose if Elon is forced out. He’s the biggest fighter for climate change and space travel in modern history, greater than Al Gore in marketing and execution, greater than Buzz Aldrin, Tyson, and cosmos. I’d much rather have an honest relatable Elon Musk than a suit. I’d rather have creativity than suffocating structure. Elon is a great CEO. I would pick him over almost anyone alive.

toozap 8y ago
Wayne Huizenga - Blockbuster, AutoNation, Waste Management.
- propman 8y ago
  Thanks, just read his Wikipedia page. Can’t believe I didn’t know he was
jiggliemon 8y ago
Howard Hughes: RKO, TWA, Las Vegas The numbers are smaller, due to inflation. But any of these successes in today’s money would be a billion dollar venture.
- propman 8y ago
  Wow interesting Wikipedia read on him too, you’re right that’s probabaly a billion in today’s dollars tooo.
village-idiot 8y ago
He seems smart, but toxic. These "revolutionary" companies run by "brilliant" CEOs tend to chew people up and spit them out because they're less important than the company mission. Hard pass.
webninja 8y ago
This should be the top comment. I absolutely feel the same about Elon. We need him in this world to save us from ourselves.
- bogomipz 8y ago
  >"We need him in this world to save us from ourselves." He can't even save himself from his own bad impulses. This whole fiasco being a case in point among many. What an absurd statement to make. Speak for yourself.
  - colordrops 8y ago
    No one is perfect. Perhaps we should look past flaws like this when more important problems are handled with skill.
    - bogomipz 8y ago
      >"No one is perfect. Perhaps we should look past flaws like this..." Exactly, which to say he's just a regular person not some savior who is capable of "saving us all" as the OP stated.
hooloovoo_zoo 8y ago
To be fair, Musk created neither Tesla nor Paypal.
- propman 8y ago
  Well he turned Tesla into a multi billion dollar behemoth in a short time and revolutionized the electric car industry. He didn’t create Tesla but he did “create” Tesla the billion dollar company. PayPal is more complicated agreed. Elon’s portion of it might be a billion due to inflation? But regardless he set the basis for it.
- mellow-lake-day 8y ago
  It's not so black and white. The biography of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance goes into more detail for those curious. It's based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Elon and those close to him — including family, friends, co-workers, etc. And Elon wasn't allowed to read it until it was published.
tardo99 8y ago
If I give you a 3 billion dollar investment, it's not hard to create a billion dollar company with that.
- kamaal 8y ago
  That's the whole problems isn't it. Nobody gives you $3 billion to do anything. You generally have to earn that from $0.
  - stephengillie 8y ago
    Unless you have investors.
  - slivym 8y ago
    Unless you have personal wealth already - which was the case with both SpaceX and Tesla.
tinkerteller 8y ago
Unless you have worked with Musk you shouldn't be making these claims. I personally haven't but I know people who have and they tell me its mixed bag. Very passionate but if he gets a bad idea then you are screwed. Many of his various blunders include the way he insisted Tesla self driving stack should look like and how entire factory should be human-free. Both of those decisions have cost in range of 100s of millions of dollars. This is not to say he hasn't made decisions that has brought in billions of dollars.

toozap 8y ago

Wayne Huizenga - Blockbuster, AutoNation, Waste Management.

propman 8y ago
Thanks, just read his Wikipedia page. Can’t believe I didn’t know he was

jiggliemon 8y ago

Howard Hughes: RKO, TWA, Las Vegas The numbers are smaller, due to inflation. But any of these successes in today’s money would be a billion dollar venture.

propman 8y ago
Wow interesting Wikipedia read on him too, you’re right that’s probabaly a billion in today’s dollars tooo.

village-idiot 8y ago

He seems smart, but toxic. These "revolutionary" companies run by "brilliant" CEOs tend to chew people up and spit them out because they're less important than the company mission. Hard pass.

webninja 8y ago

This should be the top comment. I absolutely feel the same about Elon. We need him in this world to save us from ourselves.

bogomipz 8y ago
>"We need him in this world to save us from ourselves." He can't even save himself from his own bad impulses. This whole fiasco being a case in point among many. What an absurd statement to make. Speak for yourself.
- colordrops 8y ago
  No one is perfect. Perhaps we should look past flaws like this when more important problems are handled with skill.
  - bogomipz 8y ago
    >"No one is perfect. Perhaps we should look past flaws like this..." Exactly, which to say he's just a regular person not some savior who is capable of "saving us all" as the OP stated.

hooloovoo_zoo 8y ago

To be fair, Musk created neither Tesla nor Paypal.

propman 8y ago
Well he turned Tesla into a multi billion dollar behemoth in a short time and revolutionized the electric car industry. He didn’t create Tesla but he did “create” Tesla the billion dollar company. PayPal is more complicated agreed. Elon’s portion of it might be a billion due to inflation? But regardless he set the basis for it.
mellow-lake-day 8y ago
It's not so black and white. The biography of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance goes into more detail for those curious. It's based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Elon and those close to him — including family, friends, co-workers, etc. And Elon wasn't allowed to read it until it was published.

tardo99 8y ago

If I give you a 3 billion dollar investment, it's not hard to create a billion dollar company with that.

kamaal 8y ago
That's the whole problems isn't it. Nobody gives you $3 billion to do anything. You generally have to earn that from $0.
- stephengillie 8y ago
  Unless you have investors.
- slivym 8y ago
  Unless you have personal wealth already - which was the case with both SpaceX and Tesla.

tinkerteller 8y ago

Unless you have worked with Musk you shouldn't be making these claims. I personally haven't but I know people who have and they tell me its mixed bag. Very passionate but if he gets a bad idea then you are screwed. Many of his various blunders include the way he insisted Tesla self driving stack should look like and how entire factory should be human-free. Both of those decisions have cost in range of 100s of millions of dollars. This is not to say he hasn't made decisions that has brought in billions of dollars.