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He's had more failures then successes Fired from PayPal, Twitter, neurolink, the tunnel thing He bought his way into Tesla, and SpaceX, though suppsedly he's

• indoordin0saur 2y ago
  Quantitatively, he's had more success than anyone ever
  • thecosas 2y ago
    Most money? Sure. Most success? That depends on what you're quantifying.
• edanm 2y ago
  Look, if you're trying to argue that Musk isn't a successful person in many ways, my only question is "then who is?". You're talking about literally the richest person in the world, and one that has had several successful companies. And having failures is not that uncommon, especially for serial entrepreneurs. You've gotta accept some failures to get to successes. As for the whole "he bought his way into Tesla" thing, this is just making the idea of a "founder" some kind of sacrosanct thing. By most histories I've read, he is the reason the company is the success it is today.
  • krainboltgreene 2y ago
    > "then who is?" The local Bodega down the street has been profitable for 40 years. They seem to be doing just fine and as a bonus they haven't burned billions in subsidies or hijacked public transportation initiatives.
  • tayo42 2y ago
    There are plenty of successful people. How do you want to define success? Elon got rich by turning TSLA into a meme stock. Do you think he would be rich or as rich right now if twitter never existed? He got rich on paper once, with TSLA stock, every other attempt at making a business has been a failure. He doesnt have a track record, and the financials for tsla are not inline with how the company is actually doing. Sales now are slipping. > And having failures is not that uncommon, especially for serial entrepreneurs. IDK how you can call this anything else but luck. He got forced out of paypal with a ton of money and was able to keep taking risks because of the safety nets he had that most do not. He also threw a fit and left openai, that was a poor business decision.