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>Nobody builds Tesla or SpaceX to get famous or rich How can you look at his compensation package at Tesla that he negotiated and claim it was not to "get rich

• vimy 5y ago
  The odds of succeeding with Tesla or SpaceX were extremely low. That’s not the kind of company you build if you want to become rich. There are much safer options.
  • minusf 5y ago
    > There are much safer options. and he did that with paypal. not everybody wants to stay with safe and boring stuff. everybody knows that sooner or later the combustion engine goes the way of the dodo, cause there won't be anything to put inside it... the odds of succeeding with an EV company are not extremely low but exactly the opposite, it's the future, guaranteed. but of course it's not an overnight project and one needs to do better than introducing models 5 years ago that are still not being manufactured (roadster).
    • vimy 5y ago
      It's the future now but not when Tesla was founded.