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2 examples: He's accelerated the switch to electric cars. He's made transport to space a lot cheaper, saving a lot of taxpayer's money.
by Tepix 3y ago
2 examples:
He's accelerated the switch to electric cars.
He's made transport to space a lot cheaper, saving a lot of taxpayer's money.
- rootusrootus 3y agoHe didn't create Tesla, though I'll grant him some credit for creating a combination of product and hype that made for a popular EV. Gwynne gets all the credit for SpaceX IMO. Elon gets credit for letting her succeed.
- inemesitaffia 3y agoTesla was an idea. The Tesla you see today is his doing. Eberhard would have ended up like Wework without the Newmann payout. Remember the Tesla deathwatch blog?
- suoduandao3 3y agoDo you think she could have done it without him? Everyone loves the Teslas and hates the Edisons, but the world does need Edisons.
- adventured 3y ago> Gwynne gets all the credit for SpaceX IMO It was nice of her to have the idea, pursue that idea through financial hell across many years, bankroll the start of the business top to bottom, use all of her connections to get it outside funded, and sustain it financially personally to the direct threat of personal bankruptcy. Good thing she did all that and gets all the credit.
- capableweb 3y ago> He's accelerated the switch to electric cars. Which, in today's industry and world might have been too early as we still haven't figured out if mining all that lithium is better for the world or not, right now. > He's made transport to space a lot cheaper, saving a lot of taxpayer's money. Yeah, for ~4% of the world's taxpayers. We'll still see if SpaceX is a net-win for humanity, too early to tell.
- Tepix 3y agoEven ESA member countries are saving money these days.
- ahahahahah 3y ago> He's accelerated the switch to electric cars. There's not evidence for that. In fact, by being willing to lose so much money on each car Tesla likely discouraged the broader industry from investing in electric cars for many years. Tesla may have, in fact, made the switch to electric cars slower than it otherwise would have been.