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Elon can sure help design some shit, but he sucks as a manager.
by nick238 4y ago
Elon can sure help design some shit, but he sucks as a manager.
- WalterBright 4y agoIt takes a heluva great manager to successfully run companies like SpaceX and Tesla. As Apple eventually discovered, the CEO matters a great deal. The difference between bankruptcy and the biggest market cap in the world, in fact.
- throw1234651234 4y agoI will add to this - while Elon has a ton of flaws and is overrated by people who think he brought the tech expertise, you have to give him credit for the simple fact that without him, our space program might be dead and electric cars really might have never happened. We take them for granted now, but 15 years ago they seemed completely absurd.
- andrepd 4y agoElectric cars never happened? (1) Nearly all major auto companies had electric car programs, or even finished electric cars, before the first model S came out of a factory. And (2) it's not like electric cars will save us from whatever problems cars are currently causing, like pollution or the 2,000,000 annual dead from car crashes. Boring things like trains and re-thinking our cities for better walkability will. Not electric SUVs and tunnels for cars.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoIn almost every earth in almost every multiverse, electric cars probably have more impact than thinking about how great it would be if it was easier to walk in cities.
- origin_path 4y agoHe did bring a lot of tech expertise! The guy taught himself rocket science. There's a quote from Tim Forstall somewhere, recounting an anecdote in which he happens to one night receive a call from Elon Musk, many years ago, asking about the properties of some obscure metal Forstall happens to be an expert in. Musk was researching it for use in his rockets.
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