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What did Elon do to make Tesla earn so much money that the original founders couldnt do? Is it just about debt loans needed?
by turbobooster 4y ago
What did Elon do to make Tesla earn so much money that the original founders couldnt do? Is it just about debt loans needed?
- hiddencost 4y agoHe's very good at pushing people to work overtime.
- turbobooster 4y agoIs it like Steve Jobs and his workers took who the abuse because they were paid well? Or they had Stockholm syndrome?
- pjmlp 4y agoIt is more the latter than the former, plus wanting to have name X on the CV. Games industry follows a similar pattern.
- lawn 4y agoSuckering people to believe that the company will go to the moon. Or in other words, generate hype.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoHe sold cars. Turned Tesla into an absolute hype monster.
- leesec 4y agoThe original founders were not making a mass market car.
- xorcist 4y agoTesla wasn't earning any money at all until two years ago. Until then it was coasting by on debt and selling carbon credits. The whole 2010s was a debt driven economic cycle. Very cheap money for those who can dream up a use for it. And some people are great at selling dreams.
- M2Ys4U 4y agoOver-promise on what they could deliver and how fast they could deliver.
- megaman821 4y agoActually make a production car that people could buy. He bought into a car company that made no cars. The people trying to imply he bought his way into the auto industry are trolling just as much as Elon does all while complaining about Elon trolling. Sure he wasn't a Founder of Tesla in the technical sense, but everything important that happened, happened after he bought it.
- darthrupert 4y agoMarketing. He's a one man marketing department. Some might say that that's all he is, but apparently it goes a long way.