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Musk does not do any engineering. He's a marketing guy.
by shanghaiaway 8y ago
Musk does not do any engineering. He's a marketing guy.
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoIn an interview with Joe Rogan, Musk said he spends 85% of his time on design and engineering.
- shanghaiaway 8y agoThat's a lie though.
- sjwright 8y agoCitation?
- sabertoothed 8y agoI am an engineering PhD student. I have all the rights to call myself an engineer. But Musk does a thousand times more engineering than I do. And he knows a thousand times more about engineering than me. Or anyone of my colleagues. He can surely also be considered an engineer.
- shanghaiaway 8y agoMusk doesn't spend 85% of his time on engineering.
- sjwright 8y agoCitation?
- shanghaiaway 8y agoI don't need a citation to counter an obvious lie, by a notorious liar, backed by nothing. The same person also claims that he works 120 hour weeks. Obvious falsehood.
- dang 8y agoMaybe so, but could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?
- sjwright 8y agoAssuming that was true[1][2] the point still stands, it means Musk could spend more time on marketing than the tedium of corporate matters. [1] You could argue it's true by pointing out that ninety percent of Tesla's marketing IS engineering, engineering that fuels a powerful perpetual hype machine. [2] It's obviously not. He is formally trained in economics and physics, and he proved these qualifications with PayPal and SpaceX respectively. When it comes to marketing he's quite clearly uncomfortable in that role.
- icelancer 8y agoThis is absurd. You are just repeating the same anti-Musk nonsense that has zero bearing in reality. Do you even know the origin story of SpaceX and how Musk designed and priced the Falcon rockets himself?
- markdown 8y agoI heard he built the first Falcon rocket in a cave out of spare parts.
- shanghaiaway 8y agoHe did not design Falcon.
- GuB-42 8y agoNowhere I've seen that Musk designed Falcon rockets himself. My understanding is that Tom Mueller is the real engineer behind SpaceX, having designed the Merlin engine. There are comments about how quickly Musk managed to understand rocketry but that doesn't make him an engineer. I suppose he has enough knowledge to understand what SpaceX is doing and where to invest but not for designing entire rockets.
- nickik 8y agoThat is simply false. He is the Chief Engender in SpaceX. I have heard multiple interview with people that work at SpaceX or used to work at SpaceX and the all talk about working on stuff and Elon being the one who makes engineering decisions and is hand on with all the product. Nobody knows as much about every single part of the Falcon 9 as Elon. Again, this has been said by many people. Please actually inform yourself and don't be guided by bias.