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He made x.com, which was a financial service company that got bought by paypal. THen I think he worked at paypal for a while. Then he did spacex. Then he did te

He made x.com, which was a financial service company that got bought by paypal. THen I think he worked at paypal for a while. Then he did spacex. Then he did tesla. All of those are very engineering heavy and he has been known to get into nitty gritty on all of them.

tomjakubowski 4y ago
> he has been known to get into nitty gritty Is he writing any software at SpaceX or Tesla? I've heard stories here and there of him sitting in an engineering meeting. Zip2 was founded in 1995 -- there are credible claims (from a biography) he wrote software there, and that's all I've found.
saenns 4y ago
highly doubt this guy wrote a single line of code at any of those companies
notacoward 4y ago
Is there any actual evidence of him "getting into the nitty gritty" at SpaceX or Tesla? Confirmation from people who would have been there to see it? Or just his own claims? I don't think his time doing early web stuff at x.com or PayPal counts as "heavy duty" and it certainly wasn't 20 years.
- dgrin91 4y ago
  If you ever see him at any talk thats not a pure PR event he tends to go into engineering details. Good series I would recommend from Everyday Astronaut where they get into lots of nitty gritty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ux6B3bvO0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ux6B3bvO0w
  - notacoward 4y ago
    What do you think "PR" is if not doing videos like that? And how do scripted comments about a technical domain that's not programming have anything to do with his actual claim (see OP) to have done "20 years of heavy duty programming"? There's no doubt that he has some kind of smarts, but he claimed something very specific and AFAIK that claim has no basis in fact.
  - justapassenger 4y ago
    I don’t have rocket engineering expertise, but I do have AI. When I see him talk about AI (which he claims to be an expert in), it’s like hearing college freshman, after first 5 classes of ML 101, who read a lot of pop-science blogs about it.
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tomjakubowski 4y ago

> he has been known to get into nitty gritty Is he writing any software at SpaceX or Tesla? I've heard stories here and there of him sitting in an engineering meeting. Zip2 was founded in 1995 -- there are credible claims (from a biography) he wrote software there, and that's all I've found.

saenns 4y ago

highly doubt this guy wrote a single line of code at any of those companies

notacoward 4y ago

Is there any actual evidence of him "getting into the nitty gritty" at SpaceX or Tesla? Confirmation from people who would have been there to see it? Or just his own claims? I don't think his time doing early web stuff at x.com or PayPal counts as "heavy duty" and it certainly wasn't 20 years.

dgrin91 4y ago
If you ever see him at any talk thats not a pure PR event he tends to go into engineering details. Good series I would recommend from Everyday Astronaut where they get into lots of nitty gritty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ux6B3bvO0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ux6B3bvO0w
- notacoward 4y ago
  What do you think "PR" is if not doing videos like that? And how do scripted comments about a technical domain that's not programming have anything to do with his actual claim (see OP) to have done "20 years of heavy duty programming"? There's no doubt that he has some kind of smarts, but he claimed something very specific and AFAIK that claim has no basis in fact.
- justapassenger 4y ago
  I don’t have rocket engineering expertise, but I do have AI. When I see him talk about AI (which he claims to be an expert in), it’s like hearing college freshman, after first 5 classes of ML 101, who read a lot of pop-science blogs about it.

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