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So why hasn’t bezos’s phallically reminiscent space endeavor been able to draw similar talent? Why is every other EV startup essentially DOA? Rivian’s current
by vGPU 3y ago
So why hasn’t bezos’s phallically reminiscent space endeavor been able to draw similar talent? Why is every other EV startup essentially DOA?
Rivian’s current sales numbers rival Ferrari.
Fisker is dead.
Faraday is dead.
Nikola just had a truck catch fire twice.
Lordstown is dead.
And if any of what you claim is true, then explain the success of:
Zip2
PayPal
Starlink (we can count this as separate from spaceX)
And he was a co-founder of openAI. Though whether he actually did anything useful there is debatable.
- phs318u 3y agoSpaceX's mission is to spread humanity to the planets. Bezo's mission is to offer orbital fun rides to cashed up tourists. Fisker failed due to its major investor (DOE) halting future financing, and then being hit with the loss of a large number of vehicles in Hurrican Katrina. Up until then they were following a similar startup arc (with the same sorts of problems) as Tesla had in their first few years. [0] With PayPal, Musk was insistent that the venture proceed as X.com (despite brand testing showing that people were likely to associate it with porn), but was overruled. He was also opposed to the sale to eBay, which actually catapulted PayPal in terms of growth, and embedded it as a "must have" for e-commerce. [1] [2] [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/fisker-automotive-failure/315946/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/fisker-... [1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-elon-musk-fired-from-paypal/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-elon-musk-fired-from-p... [2] https://nypost.com/2018/07/24/elon-musk-made-his-first-millions-in-the-paypal-mafia/ https://nypost.com/2018/07/24/elon-musk-made-his-first-milli...