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If someone built a dozen companies, and like a third of them succeeded and made him one of (if not the) richest man in the world, I think you could say that tha
by throwawayadvsec 3y ago
If someone built a dozen companies, and like a third of them succeeded and made him one of (if not the) richest man in the world, I think you could say that that person "has an incredible track record of success"
and I don't even like this guy, but this is just dishonest from you
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoWhat was successful after Tesla and SpaceX?
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- dizhn 3y agoParent might be including PayPal too. Though it's not clear what Musk's involvement in their success was. By the way, if you or I owned either one of the companies you mentioned it would be considered a great success. Your question itself is putting Musk in a league of his own. I don't care that he's an asshole. If someone asked the three of us to eject into space a car that we built, only he could comply.
- fakedang 3y agoI would say that PayPal was a success because of the mafia (which mostly consists of Thiel and Levchin's team by the way). I would argue that Musk actually hampered PayPal in many ways (pushing Windows as the dev environment, as one example, when the rest of the team wanted Linux). That being said, SpaceX and Tesla are successful, even if they took government subsidies to get started. There are many more companies which took a lot of government money yet managed to return nothing except fat bonuses for their executives. Or the number of large companies which have stopped innovating now (IBM and Intel for instance).
- dotancohen 3y ago> What was successful after Tesla and SpaceX? Is Tesla and SpaceX not enough of a track record? Seriously, if that is not a track record of success, what is a track record of success by your measure?
- fakedang 3y ago2 successful billion dollar companies is more than what most people can boast of.