I figured out what a pathetic POS he was when he bought Tesla and made himself CEO despite having NONE of the education, knowledge, training, experience and expertise you would expect from a CEO of the automobile industry. He's not even a car enthusiast! Even worse, he also had the gall to rewrite history by claiming to be a founder of this company that he bought! He then further proved himself to be an overvalued narcissistic egomaniac by his conduct on Twitter before he bought it... and essentially repeated history after STUPIDLY buying it!
Wdym? r/cyberstuck is a gold mine, so much good content there. He should be credited for providing us with entertainment and screening method for morons.
That truck was meant to be the survival type badass outdoor type.
Turns out they bought a fragile princess that can't even handle rain or any kind of terrain. What a joke design.
But it's worse he also goes into these companies and has them retroactively make him a founder so he can bullshit to people that he founded the companies to sell his bs origin story of being a genius entrepreneur when in reality he is just a rich con artist.
He continually proves to be nothing more than a profiteering parasite instead of the genius entrepreneur he wishes he were and and that he wishes everyone else to see him as!
Edison hired a bunch of technicians in a lab to solve problems.
Elon plays financial tricks to move money between his concerns propped up with air and hype and plays the shell game fast enough he hopes nobody notices federal subsidies sliding around and landing right in his pocket in the form of cold hard cash. He's been compared to Ellison, but Ellison kept all his capital in his company and actually got in trouble for borrowing too much against it to fund his lifestyle. Elon is a con man and a grifter who has played the Wall Street game very well in our era of fools begging for haircuts. Edison did have his heel turn when he tried to sell DC power distribution at scale which just wasn't technologically going to work (it does work on a small scale, I mean look at electric street railways operating at 600V DC). But most of his career was more similar to Steve Jobs than Elon Musk. He knew what products he wanted to sell, and he hired the right people to make them exist. He also had the capital and the patience to fund the R&D. Jobs was good at talking people into funding his startups and I assume Edison was the same. But Elon's constant puffery of Tesla is kind of something else, it involves not just selling dreams but a lot more straight up deception because going concerns have balance sheets that are subject to shareholder scrutiny.
As a computer/tech enthusiast that was noticing how much cars have changed because of EVs (somewhere in the mid 2000's as best as I can recall), I began to look into whether an EV would be my next car and the name Elon Musk kept popping up, so I looked up what I could about him... and my opinion of him has never been positive nor gotten any better.
Wdym, he’s a huge car enthusiast! He spent 1/20th of what he got for selling zip2 to Compaq on a million dollar McLaren as seen in this cringey cringey video. “It is a moment in my life.” Shudder
Was the success of Tesla just momentum from before Elon took over, or a fluke, or what? I suppose he wouldn't buy a company he didn't think would be successful.
Who cares what you have to say if this is the best you can do to "defend" an overvalued narcissistic egomaniac? Or did you not notice that overpriced POS Cybertruck happened under his "leadership?"
Elon has plenty of issues but there's no need to be misleading about his Tesla beginnings. Musk joined Tesla 6 months after its creation and 4 years before they released their first car. Yes he wasn't one of the two guys there on day one, but he's played a huge impact in it getting to where it is and for all intents and purposes is a founder of what it became.
Musk joined Tesla 6 months after its creation and 4 years before they released their first car.
Your own words completely undermine the claim of Elon being a founder of Tesla. But if I'm to trust your thinking, any investor can claim to be a founder of a company SIX MONTHS AFTEROTHER PEOPLEACTUALLY CREATED IT! He couldn't sell his wishful thinking to me and lots of other people, why are you trying to? If you're not getting compensated for this laughably sad and worn out attempt to give credit that he doesn't deserve, you're no better than his fanboys that don't realize they're useful idiots!
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u/ArchelonPIP 1d ago edited 1d ago
I figured out what a pathetic POS he was when he bought Tesla and made himself CEO despite having NONE of the education, knowledge, training, experience and expertise you would expect from a CEO of the automobile industry. He's not even a car enthusiast! Even worse, he also had the gall to rewrite history by claiming to be a founder of this company that he bought! He then further proved himself to be an overvalued narcissistic egomaniac by his conduct on Twitter before he bought it... and essentially repeated history after STUPIDLY buying it!