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a lot of smart people fell for Elizabeth Holmes charm and put their money on Theranos for the purpose of this thread saying “Elon is fundamentally a dumb guy”

a lot of smart people fell for Elizabeth Holmes charm and put their money on Theranos for the purpose of this thread saying “Elon is fundamentally a dumb guy” is a statement of opinion, one that a growing number of people agree with

SamReidHughes 3y ago
It's not a statement of opinion, it's a bitter resentful raving.
- pinkcan 3y ago
  okay
parthdesai 3y ago
I tend to fall in the camp that a “fundamentally dumb guy” won’t be able to successfully start, grow and run Tesla and Space X. Was buying twitter a mistake? Sure. Did he make dumb decisions when it comes to twitter? Yes. But IMO, that’s very different than labelling someone “fundamentally dumb”
- halostatue 3y ago
  Musk did not found Tesla.
  - pinkcan 3y ago
    this. seems a lot of people confound funding and founding, he was one of Tesla's early funders, but he was not part of the team that founded it. > he sank an initial investment of more than $6 million into Tesla, which was then not much more than a pair of founders and a vision of electric sports cars. – https://time.com/6127754/elon-musk-net-worth-person-of-the-year/ https://time.com/6127754/elon-musk-net-worth-person-of-the-y... > So AC Propulsion CEO Gage suggested Musk speak with electric car start-up Tesla Motors, which was also looking to commercialize the tzero. Musk reasoned that by teaming up with another company, he could “have my cake and eat it too,” he said on the podcast – he could still run SpaceX but also pursue his passion for electric cars in his spare time. > “I didn’t think it would be easy, but I thought maybe I could allocate 20 to 30 hours a week and just work on product engineering, and then other people could do the other stuff. I didn’t like doing the other stuff anyway,” Musk said. – https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/elon-musk-i-really-didnt-want-to-be-ceo-of-tesla.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/elon-musk-i-really-didnt-wan...

SamReidHughes 3y ago

It's not a statement of opinion, it's a bitter resentful raving.

pinkcan 3y ago
okay

parthdesai 3y ago

I tend to fall in the camp that a “fundamentally dumb guy” won’t be able to successfully start, grow and run Tesla and Space X. Was buying twitter a mistake? Sure. Did he make dumb decisions when it comes to twitter? Yes. But IMO, that’s very different than labelling someone “fundamentally dumb”

halostatue 3y ago
Musk did not found Tesla.
- pinkcan 3y ago
  this. seems a lot of people confound funding and founding, he was one of Tesla's early funders, but he was not part of the team that founded it. > he sank an initial investment of more than $6 million into Tesla, which was then not much more than a pair of founders and a vision of electric sports cars. – https://time.com/6127754/elon-musk-net-worth-person-of-the-year/ https://time.com/6127754/elon-musk-net-worth-person-of-the-y... > So AC Propulsion CEO Gage suggested Musk speak with electric car start-up Tesla Motors, which was also looking to commercialize the tzero. Musk reasoned that by teaming up with another company, he could “have my cake and eat it too,” he said on the podcast – he could still run SpaceX but also pursue his passion for electric cars in his spare time. > “I didn’t think it would be easy, but I thought maybe I could allocate 20 to 30 hours a week and just work on product engineering, and then other people could do the other stuff. I didn’t like doing the other stuff anyway,” Musk said. – https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/elon-musk-i-really-didnt-want-to-be-ceo-of-tesla.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/elon-musk-i-really-didnt-wan...