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Tesla and SpaceX have done great work. Its hard to tell exactly how influential Musk is to these companies. Perhaps a lot, perhaps only financially, perhaps j
by jayd16 4y ago
Tesla and SpaceX have done great work. Its hard to tell exactly how influential Musk is to these companies. Perhaps a lot, perhaps only financially, perhaps just a figurehead. When his tweets are less than brilliant, your prior assumption starts to move away from brilliance and towards the idea that he's just a blowhard at the top of two great companies. Couple that with the fact that Musk makes a lot of broken promises on Twitter you can see why people think Musk's tweets detract from his reputation.
- ALittleLight 4y agoIt may be coincidental that Musk is the leader of two pioneering companies. I think you'd need more evidence than not liking his tweets for that to be a reasonable conclusion though.
- HWR_14 4y agoI mean, if his skillset was identifying, investing in and hyping great companies, that would be valuable. But that would undermine his Ironman persona that made him popular to a lot of people. I personally don't respect him any less if he just finds and supports smart people, but for some reason others dismiss that unless they think he is personally designing rocket engines.
- empraptor 4y agoi wouldn't have issues with him if that's what he claimed he was doing instead of trying to pass off every engineering feat of Tesla and SpaceX as his own. but the piece of shit has made himself the stereotypical entitled executive type by taking credit for other people's work.
- modeless 4y agoIt's only "hard to tell" if you don't care to find out. Watch Everyday Astronaut's Starbase tours and tell me afterward that he's just a figurehead.
- gamblor956 4y agoHe's just a figurehead. SpaceX does best when Musk is absent and Shotwell is in charge. Notably, every major SpaceX failure has happened when Musk decided to come back to the facilities and meddle in the engineers' work.
- empraptor 4y agoi've never trusted him ever since he promoted Leap Motion as some great piece of tech. and his notion that two cheap ass cameras should be sufficient to get self driving up to par with human drivers really sealed the deal. he's a fucking idiot. maybe he gets coached by people who actually know what's going on when he does pr shit.
- jayd16 4y agoWhy is that convincing? You'd have to have inside knowledge of Musk's day to day value add in a way you were certain wasn't created for PR purposes. On top of that, you'd have to treat his Twitter account as anomalous and not indicative of his day to day work because of ...some reason?
- TheRealNGenius 4y ago