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Elon is new Steve Jobs is the new Jesus. Anyone can foist one's own unbridled ambitions, mixed in with a dash of lottery dreaming, tossed in with a bit of hubr

Elon is new Steve Jobs is the new Jesus. Anyone can foist one's own unbridled ambitions, mixed in with a dash of lottery dreaming, tossed in with a bit of hubris, to come up with whatever the bright shiny future could be.

gleenn 7y ago
The difference might be they were also heads of million dollar companies. How many of those have you or I started?
- alaskamiller 7y ago
  You wouldn't know.
  - jodrellblank 7y ago
    Wouldn't we? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19394730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19394730
    - rrix2 7y ago
      most folks aren't in peoples' posting history trying to prove a point
      - alaskamiller 7y ago
        Most folks wouldn't, but some on Hacker News certainly can't lose.
      - jodrellblank 7y ago
        Look in my posting history and you'll see plenty of whining about Google (and other tech company's) bulk collection of data. This should give you a feeling why - someone actually looking at a post history is considered intrusive and overstepping a mark. Let alone if that wasn't freely posted in public, but instead gathered surreptitiously and correlated from many sources over much time.
- geofft 7y ago
  Minor note (mostly since a lot of people don't know this): Musk did not start Tesla. He led investment in their Series A, became chairman of the board, and became actively involved with the company's operations, which allowed him to gain the title of "co-founder," but he was not involved with the company before then.
  - HNLurker2 7y ago
    AFAIK Tesla founders where adviced to go to Elon for venture capital because he may be interested in it.
- JetSpiegel 7y ago
  Jesus's exit dwarfs Jobs and Musk combined. The company is more resilient than Oracle, it was left for dead for centuries, but it's still around.
nickik 7y ago
He is not really like Jobs at all. Jobs created nice end user devices and that pretty much all he did. Other then some personal things people like to focus much of their process and goals are vastly different.

gleenn 7y ago

The difference might be they were also heads of million dollar companies. How many of those have you or I started?

alaskamiller 7y ago
You wouldn't know.
- jodrellblank 7y ago
  Wouldn't we? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19394730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19394730
  - rrix2 7y ago
    most folks aren't in peoples' posting history trying to prove a point
    - alaskamiller 7y ago
      Most folks wouldn't, but some on Hacker News certainly can't lose.
    - jodrellblank 7y ago
      Look in my posting history and you'll see plenty of whining about Google (and other tech company's) bulk collection of data. This should give you a feeling why - someone actually looking at a post history is considered intrusive and overstepping a mark. Let alone if that wasn't freely posted in public, but instead gathered surreptitiously and correlated from many sources over much time.
geofft 7y ago
Minor note (mostly since a lot of people don't know this): Musk did not start Tesla. He led investment in their Series A, became chairman of the board, and became actively involved with the company's operations, which allowed him to gain the title of "co-founder," but he was not involved with the company before then.
- HNLurker2 7y ago
  AFAIK Tesla founders where adviced to go to Elon for venture capital because he may be interested in it.
JetSpiegel 7y ago
Jesus's exit dwarfs Jobs and Musk combined. The company is more resilient than Oracle, it was left for dead for centuries, but it's still around.

nickik 7y ago

He is not really like Jobs at all. Jobs created nice end user devices and that pretty much all he did. Other then some personal things people like to focus much of their process and goals are vastly different.