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> Howard Hughes was mentally ill Not his entire career, his later decline became famous due to the scope of wealth and influence that allowed him to indulge in
by mesofile 4y ago
> Howard Hughes was mentally ill
Not his entire career, his later decline became famous due to the scope of wealth and influence that allowed him to indulge in some truly eccentric behavior, but he didn't build said wealth & influence peeing in jars.
> never built anything important (although had a shitload of failures, like the wooden airplane)
Never built anything? How about Las Vegas? Or the several companies he founded and ran successfully across wildly divergent fields? The man designed, built and flew an aircraft that broke world speed records at the time.
> inherited a lot of his initial money and revenue streams
Seriously? Do you not know Musk's family background?
Actually the more I think about it the more I think mint2's comparison was apt, Musk really is a Hughes-like figure, quite brilliant in ways, but with a powerful thirst for publicity and corresponding need to control his image. I could see his paranoid tendencies tending to dominate in the years to come, especially if his halo fully disintegrates
- acover 4y agoHow much did musk inherit? All I know is from the Ashley Vance book - he started zip2 in poverty then rolled that into x.com.
- mlindner 4y agoA couple thousand when he left South Africa for Canada as a teenager. And then about $20,000 (10% of a $200,000 seed round) when starting Zip2. That's the extent of money given to him by his parents that wasn't spent for him during when he was being reared as a child.
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- meatsauce 4y agoHow do you inherit money from a dead father who is still alive? What a brain-buster!
- panick21_ 4y agoMusk father was a pretty successful engineer. The twitter claim that his family is some amazing african slave owning dimond royalty is delusional. Musk far more helpful gift was the fact that his mother was Canadian. His father didnt want him to be in the Canada/US and didnt pay for most of it. Musk certainly has no inhereted wealth, his father is alive.
- mlindner 4y ago> Seriously? Do you not know Musk's family background? Musk hasn't inherited hardly any money at all (a couple thousand when he left SA and a bit more later when he started his first company). I think you're the one who doesn't know Musk's background.
- status200 4y agoShocking lack of research on your part. His mother was a supermodel and his father was/is a fairly sketchy businessman. Despite knowing his father had a dark side, he still chose to be with him after their parents divorce, signaling where his true emotions lay: "After Maye and Errol divorced in 1980, Elon mostly lived with his father, who says he owned thoroughbred horses, a yacht, several houses and a Cessna."[0] He has had a charmed existence his entire life. [0] https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/04/10/2014-rocket-man-the-otherworldly-ambitions-of-elon-musk/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/04/10/2014-rocket-man-the-o...
- meatsauce 4y agoToo much TV, friend.