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My main takeaway from watching him fumble around haplessly at Twitter is that there's not a chance in hell that I'd ever get in a car built by a company that he

My main takeaway from watching him fumble around haplessly at Twitter is that there's not a chance in hell that I'd ever get in a car built by a company that he runs like that, let alone a rocket.

coffeebeqn 4y ago
Credit where credit is due - he’s very good at manufacturing. I don’t think the software has ever been the strong point for Musks businesses. Infamous self driving mode being the most obvious example. Twitter is pretty much just software (and a few data centers?) so not playing to his strengths. Of course he got himself in this mess with his ego
- drcongo 4y ago
  There's an awful lot of software involved in his cars and rockets too though, and what has been very obvious in his time at Twitter is that he's perfectly happy to demand a new feature be added in a stupidly short timeframe but apparently incapable of either thinking through the consequences of adding it, or listening to someone who can.
  - JoachimS 4y ago
    Would be interesting to know how such demands are handled at Tesla and SpaceX. Twitter, being a company he just bought, not was part of building up, may not have the same mechanism and culture to handle these things.
- kibwen 4y ago
  > he’s very good at manufacturing Tesla's quality control is infamously bad. Rather, Musk is very good at marketing, being able to project his reality distortion field far enough to sell shoddily-manufactured cars for luxury-car prices.
  - tablespoon 4y ago
    >> he’s very good at manufacturing > Tesla's quality control is infamously bad. Also I believe SpaceX is effectively run by other (competent) people, and Musk stays out of the rocketry part.
    - lamontcg 4y ago
      If you believe the articles, SpaceX is very good at actively managing Musk.
    - sebzim4500 4y ago
      >Also I believe SpaceX is effectively run by other (competent) people, and Musk stays out of the rocketry part. This is extremely hard to believe, given interviews with him, former employees and even astronauts that trained with SpaceX.
chasd00 4y ago
Well the proof is in the pudding. I’m willing to wait to Dec ‘23 and see where things are. /I would ride in a falcon9 and NASA feels the same.

My main takeaway from watching him fumble around haplessly at Twitter is that there's not a chance in hell that I'd ever get in a car built by a company that he runs like that, let alone a rocket.

coffeebeqn 4y ago

Credit where credit is due - he’s very good at manufacturing. I don’t think the software has ever been the strong point for Musks businesses. Infamous self driving mode being the most obvious example. Twitter is pretty much just software (and a few data centers?) so not playing to his strengths. Of course he got himself in this mess with his ego

drcongo 4y ago
There's an awful lot of software involved in his cars and rockets too though, and what has been very obvious in his time at Twitter is that he's perfectly happy to demand a new feature be added in a stupidly short timeframe but apparently incapable of either thinking through the consequences of adding it, or listening to someone who can.
- JoachimS 4y ago
  Would be interesting to know how such demands are handled at Tesla and SpaceX. Twitter, being a company he just bought, not was part of building up, may not have the same mechanism and culture to handle these things.
kibwen 4y ago
> he’s very good at manufacturing Tesla's quality control is infamously bad. Rather, Musk is very good at marketing, being able to project his reality distortion field far enough to sell shoddily-manufactured cars for luxury-car prices.
- tablespoon 4y ago
  >> he’s very good at manufacturing > Tesla's quality control is infamously bad. Also I believe SpaceX is effectively run by other (competent) people, and Musk stays out of the rocketry part.
  - lamontcg 4y ago
    If you believe the articles, SpaceX is very good at actively managing Musk.
  - sebzim4500 4y ago
    >Also I believe SpaceX is effectively run by other (competent) people, and Musk stays out of the rocketry part. This is extremely hard to believe, given interviews with him, former employees and even astronauts that trained with SpaceX.

chasd00 4y ago

Well the proof is in the pudding. I’m willing to wait to Dec ‘23 and see where things are. /I would ride in a falcon9 and NASA feels the same.