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I may be rude, but Elon Musk is just a 22nd century snake oil salesman.
by gen_greyface 7y ago
I may be rude, but Elon Musk is just a 22nd century snake oil salesman.
- PedroBatista 7y agoVirtue is somewhere in the middle.
- hyperpallium 7y agoHe's good at promotion and raising capital, and has real products that function... but I can't believe he's only a salesman. OTOH how would you go about assessing his engineering ability? He was accepted into a Stanford PhD program. An ex-employee of spacex was amazed how he absorbed a textbook of rocket science. Unlike Eistein, he hasn't written any papers himself (AFAIK), so we can't assess his work directly. I would guess his primary role is being a technically and business-aware coach for engineers who actually do the work - like Steve Jobs. But maybe he is a genuine engineering genius himself - but how could we tell?
- Avtomat_K 7y agoA simple talentless salesman, who with his humble head did more than a conglomeration of well-trained programmer employees that just follow orders.