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Musk’s current wealth is higher than the total revenue of all the companies of which he was CEO, combined. Not profits, revenue. I don’t get why people are impr
by camjohnson26 6y ago
Musk’s current wealth is higher than the total revenue of all the companies of which he was CEO, combined. Not profits, revenue. I don’t get why people are impressed that he sent astronauts into space when he’s been funded by equity markets and subsidies to the tune of billions of dollars. His feats are impressive in the same way building a skyscraper is impressive, but the trick is to find a way to do it sustainably and honestly. Musk has failed at both.
That being said, Tesla is currently bigger than the 4 biggest auto makers in the world combined. Remains to be seen if they can justify that valuation.
- foota 6y agoWhat does his wealth have anything to do with the companies revenues?
- camjohnson26 6y agoNothing apparently.
- spoopyskelly 6y agoMusk will drive his Tesla on Mars and you'll still be calling him a failed huckster because you don't like him.
- tsimionescu 6y agoHe won't.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoHis Tesla is already in the general area of Mars, so he's half-way there :P.
- fault_lines 6y agoNo, it isn't.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoIt is, ∆v-wise.
- camjohnson26 6y agoWhere did I say he failed? He’s obviously succeeded. Of course he’s a huckster but he’s good at it, or people are just easy to fool these days.
- jv22222 6y ago> His feats are impressive in the same way building a skyscraper is impressive Um, but isn't he chief rocket engineer at SpaceX for example? And are there not numerous stories and anecdotes of people working at SpaceX who say they are amazed at how good his brain is, how fast he calculates ridiculously complex equations in real time. And, didn't SpaceX send people to ISS and create reusable rockets and design new machines to weld steel in a way that had never been done before and, well, so much more. Isn't that a little bit more impressive than building a Skyscraper? But anyway, building a skyscraper is pretty cool why is that the bad thing to do here?
- camjohnson26 6y agoMusk the media legend is a much different person than Musk the man. He is not a rocket scientist, he didn’t drop out of a phd at Stanford, he didn’t found Tesla, and he almost killed PayPal. Link me to one piece of technical work he has ever done, not something his employees have done that he slapped his name on.
- kjksf 6y agoAre we applying the same measuring tape to Musk as to other great businessmen? How many lines of code did Steve Jobs write? How many circuits boards did he design? Show me the work that wasn't done by his employees that he slapped his name on? How many lines of code did Bill Gates write for Windows? For Excel? For Internet Explorer? He's clearly a technically incompetent fraudster stealing credit from his employees. How many warehouses did Jeff Bezos design and build? What's his technical contribution to Kindle? How many packages did he personally deliver? Clearly he's technically incompetent fraudster stealing credit from his employees. Musk conceived, funded and managed all his extremely successful companies. In case of Zip2 he was even the first (and only) coder. I really don't get this desire to bring him down by denying that his achievements are extremely impressive.
- cma 6y agoMusk didn't conceive Tesla, he joined as investor and is called founder after a payoff in a lawsuit to get the title.