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He did coding for Zip2

• zalkota 6y ago
  Why does one need a $150k certificate to be an engineer. I went to a top engineering school, everything could be learned by reading engineering textbooks. Based on experience, Elon is an engineer.
  • avgDev 6y ago
    Hiring smart engineers, does not mean Elon Musk is an engineer. Unless, Elon himself did actual engineering work. He did some software dev at Zip2 but then it has been mostly investments. I think it is fair to say he is a businessman instead of an engineer.
• egsmi 6y ago
  That’s actually an interesting reply to the parent because, according to his book, his work was not rigorous and all needed to be redone. https://www.quora.com/Did-Elon-Musk-write-any-code-at-X-or-Zip2 https://www.quora.com/Did-Elon-Musk-write-any-code-at-X-or-Z...
  • coralreef 6y ago
    Not sure what this shows evidence of. I'd say its fairly ubiquitous that startups have bad code that get rewritten upon scaling demands.