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Musk gets the timing wrong almost every time. But he has by and large delivered, on crazy difficult stuff. The guy is a straight up genius, even if his behavior
by danielmarkbruce 4y ago
Musk gets the timing wrong almost every time. But he has by and large delivered, on crazy difficult stuff. The guy is a straight up genius, even if his behavior is a little weird.
- giantrobot 4y ago> The guy is a straight up genius I've never seen anything genius level out of Musk. He likes to think he's a genius and he's not dumb but actually genius? No.
- danielmarkbruce 4y agoBuilding a large profitable car company is genius level. It's crazy difficult, most people thought it was impossible to compete against the scale the big existing players had.
- giantrobot 4y agoYou might be surprised to learn Musk isn't the only employee of Tesla. Most of Tesla's profits the past decade have been carbon credits and not their cars. Like SpaceX the hard work is done by other people while Elon tweets like a 12 year old girl.
- danielmarkbruce 4y agoIf it's that easy everyone would do it - just hire some people and write some tweets. There are 10's/100's of billions laying around on the floor for people who can create large profitable companies. And if there is billions of easy money to be made in carbon credits everyone would be doing that too. It's crazy difficult to do what he's done. That's why there are so few companies worth so much money.
- KerrAvon 4y agoPretty casual with the word genius there. He's an emerald mine scion who lucked out in the dot-bomb era and apparently has a talent for working through hardware manufacturing issues. None of his original ideas have been successful. Tesla and SpaceX were not originally his, and SpaceX arguably owes more to Shotwell and government money than Musk. There are so many people in Silicon Valley who would be more effective users of billions of dollars than Musk. Such a waste.
- ralusek 4y agoHe started SpaceX, bought Tesla.
- danielmarkbruce 4y agoGetting crazy difficult stuff done is a type of genius. "a talent for working through hardware manufacturing issues" can be genius depending on exactly how good one is.
- wilg 4y agoTesla and SpaceX are both originally his! And the "emerald mine" thing is a myth.
- uxcolumbo 4y agoWhat specific things makes him a genius? Did he provide any groundbreaking designs himself? Or are you referring to his salesmanship skills?
- danielmarkbruce 4y agoBuilding a car company against the giant competitors is enough all by itself. The idea that he built it off of salesmanship alone defies common sense.
- uxcolumbo 4y agoDo you have any specific examples of his genius that allowed him to defy the giant competitors? Or maybe the existing / new Tesla folks did a lot of the work, like the founders that were ousted by him, but didn’t really get the credit, because Musk wants to be seen as this genius Tony Stark type of inventor. And dont you think being at the right time and place had something to do with with Teslas initial success, ie the other car manufacturers didn’t really focus or push EVs and Musk had a good marketing idea to place EVs as one solution to combat climate change (yet he actively tried to derail a high speed rail project, which tells me he doesn’t really care about climate change). When I hear the word genius… I think of Einstein, Newton or Hawking… ppl who use their creative mind and imagination to introduce something completely new and paradigm shifting to the world. I don’t think that’s what he has done. He used his money to invest in existing ideas and help accelerate them, by using his audience building and marketing skills… so yes he deserves credit for that. But I would like to be proven wrong, hence why I’d like to know about concrete examples which you think classify Elon as a genius.