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His history at X.com and then PayPal is definitely of someone who tried pushing their own technical delusions down the throats of other technical people, there
by piva00 4y ago
His history at X.com and then PayPal is definitely of someone who tried pushing their own technical delusions down the throats of other technical people, there he got fired for it.
It seems minor now but at the time he was pushing for PayPal's tech stack to ditch Linux and use a Microsoft stack instead. Peter Thiel backstabbed him to oust him for that.
I know someone that works at Tesla and they say that when Elon comes around there's an aura of terror. They've personally seen him firing people on a whim during one of his "visits".
- scruple 4y ago> I know someone that works at Tesla and they say that when Elon comes around there's an aura of terror. Neighbor works for SpaceX and says the same thing.
- FireBeyond 4y agoYup, at PayPal, as CEO, it was "it's cool and all you have this working prototype of PayPal, but really, I think it should be Windows and ASP, so let's start fresh." Board of Directors: "We're not going to do that". I don't think it was backstabbing on Thiel's part (though I despise the man, personally) - there was very little in the way of cogent argument beyond Musk not really knowing Linux at the time. And to be clear, he wasn't CEO because he was a founder/PayPal was his idea/his technical vision and direction - he was only CEO because he was the largest shareholder of the two companies when they merged.
- CoastalCoder 4y agoI'm curious if he always has bodyguards when in the office. If you antagonize enough super-stressed-out employees, I'd think one will eventually lose it.