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Looking to musk for intelligent, thought-through business decisions is definitely an interesting strategy.
by quickslowdown 3y ago
Looking to musk for intelligent, thought-through business decisions is definitely an interesting strategy.
- gizmo 3y agoI'm no fan of Musk but his business acumen is undeniable.
- mingus88 3y agoIf you say so. He single-handedly destroyed one of the best brands of the modern online era (tweet, Twitter, the bird logo) only to replace it with a brand identity that was stale 20 years ago and is commonly associated with porn. The site’s traffic continues to plummet and his investment is worth billions less since he unleashed his acumen.
- doublepg23 3y agoYet I still can’t go a day without being sent a Twitter link or seeing comments on HN. Twitter will be dead when people stop talking about it dying.
- lobsterthief 3y agoIt’s already dead to me.
- more_corn 3y agoWhat is twitter? I think maybe you mean the social media company called X.
- gizmo 3y agoMusk has also made what I consider bizarre and impulsive decisions with SpaceX and Tesla. The gullwing doors of the model X almost bankrupted the company, for instance. Or take the blast pad incident during a recent starship launch. Experts warned him this would happen. Musk making unforced errors isn't new. His businesses do incredibly well regardless.
- calciphus 3y agoIt's almost as though many of his companies succeed in spite of, not because of, his leadership. Get enough money and smart people on a problem and they can survive most leadership foot-gunnings. He was very good at raising money when money was free. Unclear if all the other things about him add up to a net positive for his companies now.
- bluescrn 3y agoHe didn't buy Twitter to make money. He saw it as the propaganda tool that it had become, and bought it to rotate it 180 degrees and point it back in the opposite direction.
- SR2Z 3y agoThat's a really bold declaration, given how hard he tried to renege on the deal and how severely he tried to cut costs.
- more_corn 3y agoSo funny that he couldn’t get out of the deal because he instructed his lawyers to create an iron clad agreement to force the board to accept. They’ll be teaching that deal in contract law courses for centuries.
- lobsterthief 3y agoYeah, if that was the case, he wouldn’t have tried so hard to get out of the deal. I used to think he was a great businessman until the Twitter thing removed his mask. It’s easy to achieve financial success when your father owns an Emerald mine. Then you strong-arm people out of their businesses (look up the businesses he actually started).
- quickslowdown 3y agoMusk is successful despite himself, not because of. When he doesn't have a whole team of people keeping him from making insane statements/promises/business moves, the image of a successful, shrewd businessperson really crumbles. I'm not fooled by the illusion any longer, but I do understand it's hard to separate the things he's taken credit from other people for, vs the things he himself championed/implemented.
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoYes, Elon accidentally fell into creating multiple billion dollar companies.
- quickslowdown 3y agoNot what I said.
- gizmo 3y agoCongratulations, you've created an unfalsifiable worldview for yourself where Musk's outrageous success with Tesla and SpaceX has turned into evidence of his unhinged incompetence as a CEO.
- lobsterthief 3y agoCongratulations, you've created an unfalsifiable worldview for yourself where Musk's outrageous success with Tesla and SpaceX has turned into evidence of his competence as a CEO.
- quickslowdown 3y agoI appreciate how badly you want me to love him the way you do, but the emperor has been revealed to have no clothes and I'm not happy to put my head in the sand to continue defending his intelligence/business anymore.
- more_corn 3y agolol, let’s see how it pans out for them.