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Elon's ability to find willing sources of capital for his ventures seems nothing short of incredible. He has clearly deservedly earned a reputation for deliveri
by loufe 3y ago
Elon's ability to find willing sources of capital for his ventures seems nothing short of incredible. He has clearly deservedly earned a reputation for delivering, but some projects seem tangential and lacking his attention, and they are fully funded nevertheless. He really sets the bar high for being a mover.
That's not to avoid discussing the animal welfare concerns that merit attention, though. One can only speculate what's going on in the man's head at any given point, but I wonder where the truth lies in his pressuring for results.
In any case, it reminds me of the story from the KingKiller Chronicles of the member of the Amyr who killed tens of thousands of peasants in unethical medical experiments hundreds of years before the story of Kvolthe. Kvolthe reflects on the balances of lives saved with the medical knowledge gained, systemetized, and shared through those medical experiments, the balance being -to his estimate- positive.
- wslh 3y ago> Elon's ability to find willing sources of capital for his ventures seems nothing short of incredible. I think it is just a message via WhatsApp or other messaging app? I also wonder if he just has a group with many VCs and broadcast the message there. I simplify the founding process in two group of founders: the ones for mere mortals and the ones that are oversubscribed and people ask YOU in random places if you have some access to the deal with dilated pupils.
- rapsey 3y ago> He has clearly deservedly earned a reputation for delivering, Which is why his ability to find sources of capital is not surprising in the least.
- caycep 3y agohe delivers if he has a good partner to keep him grounded...or is good enough to manage things when he's gone. Tesla: Eberhard and Terpenning SpaceX: Gwynne Shotwell, above all, but also Cantrell and Mueller. vs. say - the Boring Company - what have they done recently that wasn't a joke? I'd say I'd be more confident of Neuralink if someone who actually knows about BCI/BMI were involved, like I'd like to see names like Rich Andersen, Doris Tsao, or someone from the late Krisha Shenoy's lab involved...
- rapsey 3y agoEvery successful person requires the ability to recognize and recruit top talent to work for them.
- ArekDymalski 3y agoUnless the person already posseses extraordinary competencies like: - moving servers by himself against advice from his own talent - rescuing children trapped in caves by insulting other rescuers - finishing international wars by wrestling dictators. The fact that such person is able to secure funding convinces me that the stock exchange is quite disturbed (and disturbing) mechanism.
- tim333 3y agoHe also transformed two industries producing the market dominating company in electric cars and satellite launches. The stock market values that stuff more than oh no he once was rude to someone type incidents.
- ArekDymalski 3y agoYeah, that's exactly the part I consider distrurbing.
- danaris 3y agoFrom everything I've heard, the Boring Company was specifically intended to spike other mass-transit efforts in the Bay Area that Musk didn't want to see happen. It has done its job, so why would he put any more effort into it?
- reducesuffering 3y agoI don't understand how people think so little of Musk to mention Eberhard and Tarpenning as essential to Tesla, when practically all of the difficulties in novel car manufacturing involve the factories that actually build these cars. Tesla started work inside their first factory in Fremont in late 2010, years after Eberhard and Tarpenning were gone. There's 20 different EV companies that have flashy designs on paper. Almost none of them are manufacturing for profit.
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- throwaway473825 3y agoHave you tried the Copenhagen Metro? It has a twin-bore tunnel system that allows 24/7 service with a higher frequency than the New York City Subway. It's cheap to use thanks to the efficiency of driverless trains. What does Boring Company bring to the table? Tunnel boring machines already exist. Having cars instead of trains just increases the cost of operation.
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- spaceman_2020 3y agoI think this says more about capitalism in current year than anything else. Speculative energy triumphs utility. Ford has a market cap of $41B. BNB, a token used by crypto exchange Binance, has a market cap of $35B. Musk is just good at playing the game. And as they say, don't hate the player. Hate the game.
- arcticfox 3y ago> And with regards to rockets, there's a reason why sensible people pulled the plug on the Apollo program, there is nothing for us up there Just ~infinite area and resources and energy and ability to dominate the Earth from a physics standpoint?
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- Zigurd 3y agoIt has been interesting to watch what could end up being the biggest self-created trainwreck of a rich man in the 21st c: Tesla will not be valued 10X of other car makers forever. Cybertruck is an Elon idea. Deleting sensors other than cameras for autonomous driving is an Elon diktat. Starship has functional requirements impossible for one rocket architecture to meet, because of Elon. He bought Twitter as a means of rage-quitting litigation he was going to lose and it has gone as well as one would think. The movie is going to be a Shakespearean tragicomedy.