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[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

Elon Musk's entire career since his PayPal days has been throwing one horrifyingly bad idea after another to his employees for them to figure out a way to bring into reality, then take credit for all of his employees' work once they somehow realize these idea in order to shamelessly market himself as a tech genius, a "real life Tony Stark", to make his employees realize even more bad ideas. Until his management of Twitter exposed him.

Can't wait to see what kind of trainwreck a dating app designed by a misogynistic thrice-divorced deadbeat manchild would look like.

[-] DaCookeyMonsta@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Now I want to watch glass onion again.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

(Watch my movies too, please😊)

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

You're not the real Margot Robbie, she doesn't use Linux.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie can use any operating system at home as she please!

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

I loathe the guy but I really think you’re doing him a disservice. It is HARD to scale businesses while maintaining an environment of iteration and preventing things getting moribund. And while I’d never work for him on work-life balance grounds, you can at least not fault him for living the kind of environment he wanted to create, with absolute dedication to the task.

And honestly, how many CEOs do you know who can walk the grounds of his business and tell you exactly what each component does and why? While it may not be his idea, that’s still a lot of knowledge to hold in your head.

[-] SkyeStarfall 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Elon failed at scaling businesses. He lucked out at the start, and people think he's a genius due to survivorship bias, but tesla is going down the drain, even if it had an extremely good position in the market. SpaceX is doing alright I suppose, but didn't achieve many of the ambitious goals Elon said would happen, like the mars stuff, if not cancelled, then very delayed. The boring Company is a failure. Twitter is a failure. Solar roofs were a failure. Neuralink is a failure.

Employees talk about how they constantly have to tip-toe around him, and basically psychologically manipulate him to do the right thing. I think SpaceX just has really good managers that manage not the employees, but Elon himself. Whenever he gets full reign in a company, it falls apart.

[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly so. The successful companies he's involved in are largely successful despite him, not because of him

[-] xts@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

And honestly, how many CEOs do you know who can walk the grounds of his business and tell you exactly what each component does and why? While it may not be his idea, that’s still a lot of knowledge to hold in your head.

Not Elon, that’s for goddamn sure. The dude randomly unplugged and moved entire racks of servers which caused massive downtime and glitchiness on Twitter.

It's also extremely obvious he has done 0 actual tech work since the 90’s based off of the way he talks about coding. Also allegedly he had no idea how to run a Python script lmao

[-] figaro@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean the bar is pretty low right now. Tinder/matchgroup basically owns the market. I used the Facebook dating app for a bit and honestly, it ended up being more worthwhile than tinder.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I think Facebook dating works better because you get a much more complete, natural profile of a person over a long period of time compared to Tinder and friends. Twitter... is not that.

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