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He is chief engineer of SpaceX. The rockets seem pretty good to me.

karpierz 3y ago
He has the title 'Chief Engineer' at SpaceX, a company which he owns. Turns out, when you own the company, you can make the company call you whatever will best serve your ego.
- FredPret 3y ago
  Yes but the rockets will only go up if the engineering is actually good. So either he's a really good engineer or he's really good at hiring them, which means he's a really good engineer. It's comical how much people hate this guy. He's a smart person you don't like, why is that so hard to accept.
  - karpierz 3y ago
    > either he's a really good engineer or he's really good at hiring them, which means he's a really good engineer. Or someone else at SpaceX is good at hiring engineers? Is your conclusion that everyone who owns a successful engineering company is a really good engineer?
    - robryan 3y ago
      Still have to be good at hiring those people that are good at hiring. And giving them the funding, culture and vision to succeed.
      - karpierz 3y ago
        I'm not saying Elon succeeds by accident. I think he's a very smart man who despite that, manages to think he's smarter than he is. I think that his unique talents are not in engineering but sales. He's great at selling his vision to some people who will then bleed for him. He's great at fundraising and convince people to fund his ventures. I don't think he's an engineering prodigy like Carmack or Wozniak. I don't think he's a product genius like Jobs. I think he's a fantastic salesman who finds bets that will pay off if you can keep at them for long enough, and uses his fundraising talents to keep his companies afloat until they do pay off.
  - qsdf38100 3y ago
    Yeah, his ideas are so smart! The hyperloop, the boring company, rocket mass transportation, etc He is a fraud. A very successful fraud.
bobsil1 3y ago
Oh yes, also CTO Twitter, chief neuroscientist Neuralink, chief researcher OpenAI, a regular Renaissance man. Never studied STEM.
- peterfirefly 3y ago
  > Never studied STEM. He has a physics degree.
  - bobsil1 3y ago
    He bought a physics diploma with a large donation years after dropping out.

He has the title 'Chief Engineer' at SpaceX, a company which he owns. Turns out, when you own the company, you can make the company call you whatever will best serve your ego.

FredPret 3y ago
Yes but the rockets will only go up if the engineering is actually good. So either he's a really good engineer or he's really good at hiring them, which means he's a really good engineer. It's comical how much people hate this guy. He's a smart person you don't like, why is that so hard to accept.
- karpierz 3y ago
  > either he's a really good engineer or he's really good at hiring them, which means he's a really good engineer. Or someone else at SpaceX is good at hiring engineers? Is your conclusion that everyone who owns a successful engineering company is a really good engineer?
  - robryan 3y ago
    Still have to be good at hiring those people that are good at hiring. And giving them the funding, culture and vision to succeed.
    - karpierz 3y ago
      I'm not saying Elon succeeds by accident. I think he's a very smart man who despite that, manages to think he's smarter than he is. I think that his unique talents are not in engineering but sales. He's great at selling his vision to some people who will then bleed for him. He's great at fundraising and convince people to fund his ventures. I don't think he's an engineering prodigy like Carmack or Wozniak. I don't think he's a product genius like Jobs. I think he's a fantastic salesman who finds bets that will pay off if you can keep at them for long enough, and uses his fundraising talents to keep his companies afloat until they do pay off.
- qsdf38100 3y ago
  Yeah, his ideas are so smart! The hyperloop, the boring company, rocket mass transportation, etc He is a fraud. A very successful fraud.

bobsil1 3y ago

Oh yes, also CTO Twitter, chief neuroscientist Neuralink, chief researcher OpenAI, a regular Renaissance man. Never studied STEM.

peterfirefly 3y ago
> Never studied STEM. He has a physics degree.
- bobsil1 3y ago
  He bought a physics diploma with a large donation years after dropping out.