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Lyn Alden · 154w
Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass. He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narrativ...
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While this is certainly true, he has also built the most agile company culture and lead those to several achievements previously labeled „impossible“:

-Landing rockets
-EVs that are better than any gas car
-Self Driving in 90% of situations with no premapping nor lidar nor radar.

So yea, he is great at marketing and a lot he does never works out. Yet he achieved more than any single person in history, maybe except Tesla himself.
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⚡️🌱🌙 · 154w
Are you joking? The impact of iPhone alone is bigger than all his stuff put together by a long margin. Look at your screen time for proof of this fact. Landing rockets look cool, but there aren’t many big biz models for space. Space tourism market has already flopped. What’s left? A $100pcm IS...
Octavio "Tavo" Fuentes · 154w
He achieved more than any single person in history.... That's the kind of cult of personality stuff that gets us to some weird dark places IMHO
The Guy That Looked Into It · 154w
Pretty big words of praise for Elon "I haven't created a single profit generating business without government help" Musk 🙃
nostrich · 122w
I agree with this. Elon gets subsidies on car sales but guess what, the oil and gas industry globally gets a trillion dollars in subsidies annually. I don’t like the subsidy argument. Elon builds good tech, and he IS an engineer. Where he goes fatally wrong though is his insistence on building on...