@Sir_Kevin Yeah, he is a con artist, but a good one.
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The poor Karens being genocided at home and being used as an insult in the West
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:
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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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.
~~Didn't he invent his college diploma? Heard something about that a while ago ;)~~
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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.
No offense, but since you replied to the other comment: I don't think you know what a source is.
EDIT: lol, They asked for sources! You know, like links to proof...? It's the very first sentence!
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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.
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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!!!