I have a feeling he designed the cyber truck and that's why it sucks so hard
Yeah iirc, he boasted a bit about that and there's alot of engineers that responded to various comments about design oversights saying most of it was musks design, it was designed how he wanted it the way he wanted it, agianst the advice of engineers. They saw some these problems miles away but that car specifically was musks baby, his personal magnum opus, his personal design.
Probably a reason them being vandalized hirts him even more, not only is he an arrogant petulant child, that really is "his" creation. Treats it more like his kid then any of his children which "died" to wokeness.
On an video done by common sense skeptic, he mentions that Teslas business plan was layed out by the original founders up until the launch of cybertruck. Indicating that Musks only major contribution was indeed the Cybertruck. He also has a couple of patents, one for the shape of the charger socket and the other one I can't recall.
Well thats not completely true, he personally helped design the Cybersuck
And it fucking shows
I hear its the fascist thing on wheels :3
According to some graffiti, that's true!
I remember some article about SpaceX a while ago, where an engineer says that the work day grinds to a halt whenever Musk arrives at the factory because he wants them to work in a very specific way that isn't actually conducive to being a rocket manufacturer, but which he thinks is how rocket manufacturers operate.
I’m sure he drew the first Cybertruck design, because no competent car designer would come up with an ugly monstrosity like that.
The old school MS-DOS gaming groups on Facebook all mocked it on how it looked like it was an early 90s PC racing game car rendered in real life. Plenty of other 90s gamers also made similar claims about how it resembled clunky primitive 3D graphics of the era.
never designed anything
i am convinced that he at least had a lot of say in the design of cybertruck. the sheer amount of design flaws on that thing is just too many to believe it was made by actual engineers without any input from a barely literate troglodyte.
The other day I was talking about musk to my GF, Me: “Musk is such a poser, he buys successful gaming accounts and pretends to be a top gamer by claiming those achievements as his own” GF: “Well, yeah, that tracks. Isn’t that what he does with his companies?”.
Sounds like a keeper!
He just happened to get lucky and invest in 3 of the most influential technology companies of the past decade despite basically the entire planet telling him it won't be possible.
He just got lucky 🙄
This is a stupid fucking way to attack Elon. There are better ways to point out he's a drug addicted criminal.
And also lucky to have been born in the right family.
Yes he had starter capitol. 200m being generous. His investments have outpaced the stock market by a magnitude of 25. More than that probably.
He is likely the most successful investor on the plant at the moment where he has out performed the richest of the rich.
The guy is a fuck face but this meme/argument that he was just lucky for 25 years on multiple live changing tech is silly. He might be bi polar but he clearly knows good tech and how to nurture a company.
Because he does pump and dump shit. He tried it with Twitter when he "offered" to buy it, but was forced to follow though this time.
When he tried to weasel out of the Twitter buy, I bought a bunch of stock because I knew he couldn't get out of it and it was way over the valuation.
Musk being a dumb fucking shit head helped me make some good money. My only regret was not buying more.
People who defend him claim he's a super genius who invented electric cars and space shuttles straight out of his balls, so it does make sense to call out the fact that he himself didn't create any of these companies and he's not the one doing any of the development, all he has is money, all he does is shout and put his X on other people's things.
This is what capitalism gets you. You don't get leaders who get where they are thanks to their hard work or that they're better at what they do than others, you get entitled shitheads who never work a day in their lives and get everything handed to them, with zero work ethics and zero knowledge of how to do anything.
Yeah, whn you shot-gun spray your investments, you're bound to get lucky.
What about:
When you're born into financial security, you can try dumb shit, and you're bound to get lucky.
If you're born into financial security and you're a grifter/scammer - you're bound to become a billionaire.
Musk = POS Nazi.
~~Didn't he invent his college diploma? Heard something about that a while ago ;)~~
I would argue Gwen Shotwell is to blame for spacex's success. Tom Muller made the engine, which is no mean feat, but Gwen built the company.
Gwynne* Shotwell, but yea, she built the company.
I also spelt Mueller wrong. I'm not a rocket appliances.
Of all the things that came from PayPal, musk and thiel being one of the worst things
Musk is a sleazy salesman. That's all he is.
Perfect company for Trump.
Elon musk has a few patents. Nothing revolutionary and some not even related to his current venture. But his companies successes come down to his ability to promise completely unachievable goals.
This is exactly how Trump built himself up. As early as the 1970s when Trump was just starting to do his own ventures New York newspapers and editorials would jeer at him for being the biggest damn blowhard they ever saw. Someone who would promise the world and deliver nothing.
Yet this attitude worked... he managed to built a brand around himself as the successful businessman who, ironically, had no businesses successes. By the late 80s he was actively mocked by so much media it wasn't funny. Everything from sesame street to the 87 TMNT cartoon to the infamous Back to the Future 2 portrayal. It didn't stop there. It continued into the 90s with the villain in the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie being heavily based on Trump, as well as the villain in the 1994 movie Time Cop.
Everyone from playboy to a ton of other magazines. Despite all this he STILL managed to somehow maintain that image, and while it waned, the Apprentice somehow convinced people again that he was a business genius when he was the farthest thing from it.
He was not in isolation, of course. The libertarian movement had been growing and the idea that the US did not need a politician, but a businessman, as a president and that it needs to be run like a business and not a country had been building momentum for decades before his entry into politics.
If that movement didn't exist Trump would still be a failed businessman and probably have been thrown in prison a long time ago.
Bringing down a superpower is pretty big. Something to brag about I guess.
Last year SpaceX received government subsidies totaling $10 million per day. Without government welfare he is worthless.
That's because xelon is a nothing, and has always been a nothing. Money does not make you something. All republicans/conservatives are just the uncool kids that will never be cool. They don't understand what "cool" actually is. And when they try to be "cool", it's just cringe, cringe, cringe!!!
Can someone provide sources for the information? I'm not doubting it, just that relying solely on information from a meme without references is generally a bad idea
For PayPal he was actually fired, but still had a lot of shares. Musk was fired when the company he was CEO of (x.com), merged with Confinity. PayPal was a service of Confinity. Musk kept pushing his X concept, whilst the rest of the company wanted to go PayPal. Musk got pushed out over this and some other conflicts. Later PayPal made it big and the shares made Musk a bunch of money.
So for PayPal Musk had zero to do with it's success.
Well with Tesla, that was a lawsuit. He was being sued and due to the outcome, board members became co-founders. Legally Musk is considered a co-founder of Tesla.
And that’s exactly how newspapers should phrase it:
Musk, who won the right to be called a cofounder of Tesla in court, …
He actually did invent that one game in the 80s, his only positive contribution to society.
It's a perfect psycho business man. With inimaginable amount of money and resources. Greedy as a worm whole. You know like all most powerful few guys in the world.
So, while I'm confident Elon is absolutely terrible at anything software related, I did some digging to see how much he's actually done at anything other than software. It looks like he was highly regarded, at least with high level decisions, as the chief engineer of SpaceX from this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/evidence_that_musk_is_the_chief_engineer_of_spacex/
Not trying to throw him a bone at all or anything. But is it possible that he does know a lot about rockets/propulsion?? I'm trying to get the facts about this as it's been a longstanding argument between my dad and I about what his involvement actually has been. My basic argument has always been, CEOs don't have the time of day to get involved with the nitty gritty, and his rebuttal is usually something along the lines of, "Well that's just how smart he is, I mean he sleeps at the factories!" :eye roll:
A reddit thread does not a worthwhile source make. The man is a tumor on society and has never meaningfully contributed to anything to a business he is involved with beyond taking and selling emeralds from his dads apartheid mine.
If you watch the Everyday Astronaut Elon interviews, it’s clear he knows a lot about rocketry, understands the workings of SpaceX in minute detail, and is obviously not just a disconnected CEO. While I’ll concede that he has played a great part in the success of his companies, I really don’t like the idea that pieces of shit like Elon and Bezos will have an oligopoly on space travel. I’d really like to see reusable rockets become more of a commodity with a lot of competition, because the future of space travel is too important to be under the control of dickheads like them.
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