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I was under the impression he was the money / marketing guy, I didn't realise he built or designed any rockets / EVs himself.
by andrepd 5y ago
I was under the impression he was the money / marketing guy, I didn't realise he built or designed any rockets / EVs himself.
- e8gy3 5y agoThis! Amazes me everyone thinks he’s the brain behind the incredible technologies his companies create.
- blairbeckwith 5y agoEven if this was true (nearly everyone who has studied Musk says that although he may not lead day to day engineering, he is gifted at figuring this stuff out)… It is clearly non-trivial to rally a group of people, funding sources, and, er, marketing resources to accomplish what he has accomplished. Evidence: nobody else has done it.
- danparsonson 5y ago> Evidence: nobody else has done it. Er... what? He's focussed his attention on some specific problems and made good progress solving them; people have been doing that for as long as there have been people. Sure he's had great success and clearly does a lot of things well. He's not singular in that.
- martyvis 5y agoYou need to watch this interview with Tim Dodd (the space YouTuber) and you'll realise in the first 15 minutes he really is an engineer https://youtu.be/t705r8ICkRw https://youtu.be/t705r8ICkRw