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But he didn't "bet". He worked to make it happen. He didn't just invest money, he invested his time. No magic, just hard work and sheer pigheadedness. You don

But he didn't "bet". He worked to make it happen. He didn't just invest money, he invested his time. No magic, just hard work and sheer pigheadedness. You don't have to like him, but we can't pretend the last 15 years didn't happen. It happened, and happened because of him. This isn't reddit, we need to accept reality here.

gigatexal 2y ago
You think he was the only smart guy in the room? He was the money man who happened to be smart. But to pull off Tesla requires a ton of smart people not just Elon. So no. This isn’t Reddit but this isn’t also X.com. Reality exists here.
- ryzvonusef 2y ago
  Those smart people require direction and orders, and are paid as such. Should they build permanent magnet motors or induction motors? Should they use aluminum or steel? so on and so forth. And these decision rest with the C-Suite and ultimately the CEO, and if they make the right calls, the company succeeds, sales increase and the share prices rises, making shareholders happy. If not... And making the right call depends on the skills of the CEO, in this case both the business and engineering (yes, specifically that) skills of Elon Musk. He used them, made some bad calls, made some good calls, but over they years made enough right calls to that he was kept on as CEO for multiple years in a row, and he made everyone rich. Employees were paid, Board members were paid, he should be paid too. Don't like him? Pay his dues and fire him.
  - gigatexal 2y ago
    Pay him his dues? He’s fully vested. He has enough equity. More equity isn’t going to make him focus on Tesla more it’s just going to pay for Twitter.
- gigatexal 2y ago
  Nah he was kept on because he became larger than life and gave Tesla huge marketing reach for basically free. What other car brand didn’t need to advertise but yet grew mindshare?

gigatexal 2y ago

You think he was the only smart guy in the room? He was the money man who happened to be smart. But to pull off Tesla requires a ton of smart people not just Elon. So no. This isn’t Reddit but this isn’t also X.com. Reality exists here.

ryzvonusef 2y ago
Those smart people require direction and orders, and are paid as such. Should they build permanent magnet motors or induction motors? Should they use aluminum or steel? so on and so forth. And these decision rest with the C-Suite and ultimately the CEO, and if they make the right calls, the company succeeds, sales increase and the share prices rises, making shareholders happy. If not... And making the right call depends on the skills of the CEO, in this case both the business and engineering (yes, specifically that) skills of Elon Musk. He used them, made some bad calls, made some good calls, but over they years made enough right calls to that he was kept on as CEO for multiple years in a row, and he made everyone rich. Employees were paid, Board members were paid, he should be paid too. Don't like him? Pay his dues and fire him.
- gigatexal 2y ago
  Pay him his dues? He’s fully vested. He has enough equity. More equity isn’t going to make him focus on Tesla more it’s just going to pay for Twitter.
gigatexal 2y ago
Nah he was kept on because he became larger than life and gave Tesla huge marketing reach for basically free. What other car brand didn’t need to advertise but yet grew mindshare?