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> Elon ... have taken all the talent that would have gone to bell labs and used it to generate ad revenue This is pretty unfair to Elon. He took all that talen
by philovivero 5y ago
> Elon ... have taken all the talent that would have gone to bell labs and used it to generate ad revenue
This is pretty unfair to Elon. He took all that talent and started putting things into space. And building the next generation of cars. He seems to be doing amazing work.
Bezos and Zuckerberg, sure. Musk is in a different league, possibly an entirely different game.
- KerrAvon 5y agoIt’s perfectly fair (for some value of fair). Both SpaceX and Tesla would not exist today if not for US government money, yet Musk bitches endlessly about government interference, as if his own personal fortune wasn’t down to simply cashing out at the right time during the dot-com boom. Peter Thiel is right about one thing only: Musk is an entitled emerald scion braggart.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoEhh, lots of folks get billions of dollars of government money and have zero to show for it. At least with Elon we get cheap, reliable lift vehicles and 1-2 million EVs per year being built. It’s easy to handwave away his hard work because it costs someone nothing but contempt, but if it was so easy why was he the one to do it? Because it’s hard. He’s obnoxious and yet surgically effective. Seems fair for the results, even when considering how much luck was a component (PayPal).
- johnisgood 5y agoWhat kind of talent are we speaking of here? I would not consider either of them talented in SWE.
- ghosty141 5y agoMusk is more of a great entrepreneur. His track record is quite impressive.