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Originally Posted by limon
he hasn't actually done any of that, hes parlayed his money and hired some smart people it seems. hes a fish on a heater. its like saying jamie gold, jerry yang and robert varkoni were/are the best players in poker. you look at how they play the hands not the outlier results. he made 1st year business school mistakes on the twitter purchase . he waived due diligence got locked into a 33 billion to high price and lost in court multiple times while getting rolled by the twitter board. it would be like folding AA pre flop in a cash game or not raising the nuts on the river. he played the hand like a moron because he is a moron.
Oh noees, even a legend can get it wrong!
By your logic then, even Jobs was also a pretender and a piker. Musk is the ONLY true successor to the GENIUS and legacy that was Jobs. There are many billionaries who got LUCKY once ie Zuckerberg, Gates, Brin/Page, etc but try and ask them to do it again. Highly unlikely that they can. The geniuses are the ones that do it more than once which is why Jobs is beloved and revered.
SpaceX has the real potential to be worth much more than Tesla. Imagine mining asteroids for precious metals. Musk has a legit chance to be the world's first trillionaire. Agreed that Twitter/X has been somewhat of an economical blunder but so was NeXT computer. But when you consider what Musk will ultimately be worth, it kinda doesn't matter that he spent a few measly billion on this plaything that he thinks can influence the world.
I know you don't read books but try and give Isaacson's biography a shot. Gives a good insight into Musk. Exposes BS theories like Musk "stole" Tesla from the original founders. Completely idiotic. The original founders would have run Tesla into the ground just like the all the other failed auto companies in history. Musk and Jobs are revered because they didn't get "lucky".
Besides this disagreement, really appreciate your posts and wisdom.