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The difference might be they were also heads of million dollar companies. How many of those have you or I started?
by 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 agoYou wouldn't know.
- jodrellblank 7y agoWouldn't we? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19394730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19394730
- rrix2 7y agomost folks aren't in peoples' posting history trying to prove a point
- alaskamiller 7y agoMost folks wouldn't, but some on Hacker News certainly can't lose.
- jodrellblank 7y agoLook 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 agoMinor 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 agoAFAIK Tesla founders where adviced to go to Elon for venture capital because he may be interested in it.
- JetSpiegel 7y agoJesus'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.