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One thing that pretty much everyone underestimated here is exactly how good Musk is at finding other people to pay for stuff. The loans from the Chinese govt..
by hogFeast 7y ago
One thing that pretty much everyone underestimated here is exactly how good Musk is at finding other people to pay for stuff.
The loans from the Chinese govt...insane...he found literally the only people on earth (perhaps aside from German bankers, although they have lost too much money to carry on for now) that will light fire to huge stacks of cash with no hesitation.
Fiat are shrewd but he clearly had them up against a wall here. Genius.
I would still much rather take my money down to the track rather than invest with Musk but it is genuinely difficult to think of another CEO with as much capital markets hustle.
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agoMusk seems to be really really good at working his customers, suppliers, governments, financiers, media, and public. In addition to having rather spectacular engineering sense. It's like a perfect storm for being a business magnet.
- hogFeast 7y agoYep, I would definitely disagree with you there. Tesla is all sizzle and no steak. He would make a great financial adviser or sales guy at a hedge fund...I am sure that anything else he touches would turn to shit with great rapidity.
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agoI assure you Musk has great engineering talent. Sometimes it looks like he doesn't because he demands progress faster than is reasonable and chaos and failure is the result.
- woodandsteel 7y agoNo, that's all wrong. He has build up a company that produces the best ev's in the world, and is forcing all the other companies to follow his lead, and in the process helping save the climate. Which you apparently don't care about at all.
- ryuukk_ 7y agoMusk is a retard The "elusive" people behind him are doing all the work, he is a puppet Their goal is to penetrate and disturb EU/Asia market, USA doesn't want to have competitors, or global giants other than american ones People are blind, and retarded, they suck his penis publicly
- seieste 7y agoI think you mean magnate; a magnet goes on your refrigerator.
- gfody 7y agohe definitely means magnet
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agohttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1037976743963840512?lang=en https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1037976743963840512?lang...