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I don't think Elon did any of that either, except to bring money to smarter people to actually build those things.

• fragmede 3y ago
  bringing money to smarter people to actually build things is huge! even if that is all he did, why do we down play that?
  • epistasis 3y ago
    In Silicon Valley there's lots of ways to get money to smart people. And for Tesla, he wasn't even a founder, he just kind of took over. With every success there's some amount of luck, and some amount of accrued power, and some amount of grit and novel creation. It's increasingly looking like the less that Musk has his hands on things, the better "his" companies do. He may have lots of leftover power from his early luck, but others need to rein him in for any sort of success to happen. Now that his ego is too big, we get whatever has been happening for the past few years.
    • fragmede 3y ago
      > In Silicon Valley there's lots of ways to get money to smart people. The site we're on is a testament to that. Even if Elon is just a successful VC investor and not an engineer, why denigrate that? I'm not saying this out of any love for Elon, but to recognize that getting the right people together in the right time and place and funding them is, in and of itself, and accomplishment. eg Al Gore and creating the Internet.