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I give him credit for putting gobs of money and patience into some long shot and longer payoff tech R&D which virtually no one else was willing to do on the sam
by kcplate 3y ago
I give him credit for putting gobs of money and patience into some long shot and longer payoff tech R&D which virtually no one else was willing to do on the same scale and patient time frame. He may have not been the genius engineer behind the tech, but the genius engineers that built those things would have not had the same opportunity to do so without him. There is simply no doubt that he accelerated that tech.
Is he a shit human being? Of course. Does he make himself out to be smarter than he is? Of course. Would we have private space flight and viable consumer EVs without him? Of course, but not for a long time.
- b---w 3y agoUhhh, the US government gave gobs of money, as did investors. He didn't. He held paper shares and took out loans off the backs of others to pivot into buying a social media company lol
- kcplate 3y agoSo do you think it’s easy to convince people and governments to tie up capital waiting on a 20 year ROI on tech that doesn’t exist yet? Minimize it all you want, but that nutcase has some big successes in advancing technology due to believing in a vision, expressing the patience necessary to get there, and yes, convincing others to do the same. I know I wouldn’t be able to do that and I suspect you can’t either.