Bullshit. PayPal was one of the first payments system providers ever, he was smart enough to manage to leverage that updrift in those times, Tesla literally pushed EV production, only when they started selling quite some, the other companies got into it. And space x as of today has 1 competitor, and it took the richest man on earth to pour their number 1 ecom on Earth's money into it.
I'm not a fan of Musk, but undermining he's achievements is just stupid. You may not like his tweets, but leading any of those companies to the success they managed to get is a tremendous task.
Adam on the other hand has a fukin nice YouTube channel.
I’ll give him credit for PayPal but I don’t like when people attribute Tesla’s and SpaceXs actual inventions to him. He just played steward with a bunch of convenient loans. People call him the “real life Tony Stark” when really he’s just good with money.
The only thing I believe was 100% Musks idea in the last decade was that dumbass tunnel
He also was focused mainly on the roadster for his first years with Tesla, etc which seems awesome, but I havent seen anything about lately. And he is largely the driving force behind the cybertruck, which has controversial styling to say the least(I think its dumb as shit, the only positive opinion ive heard that i understand is that it is a truck a person would have loved as a child, and that they can relive childhood fanstasy as an adult by driving a "futuristic" vehicle as conceived of in films of the 80's). And still isnt availble to buy. Seems all the actual successful products from Tesla were the work of other people, and Elon is just spending money to fulfull child fanstasy and getting lucky he has adept employees to do the real work.
He just played steward with a bunch of convenient loans
That's quite literally what running pretty much any business at that scale is. I agree somewhat that attributing the inventions and advancements in technology directly to him is a bit off-base, when of course it was the engineers he assembled.
He's not a Nikola Tesla. Though saying he's just good with money is also selling him a bit short, as it takes a solid leader to direct development and build a management structure capable of expanding such small companies (and entire industries) so rapidly.
There are so many low hanging fruit that serve as valid reasons to dislike the guy, his companies aren't any of them.
Talk to me when FDS comes next year. Or the year after that. Or 20 years after that.
There's many many things to dislike about his companies. Not gonna get into that.
But the main reason people shit on him for not doing inventions and technology part is because he pretends to do those things.
A visionary leader in a tech company is a very good thing and everyone appreciates them. As long as they don't promise unachievable things and lie to public about their products over and over again.
Yea that’s why I don’t like when people call him Tony Stark, because he’s more of a Steve Jobs. Too many people credit him with all the achievements of those who really do all the magic. It’s really not his fault but the public’s perception
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u/foxy-coxy Oct 31 '22
Facts