• PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    4 days ago

    it took Tesla to make China move.

    Maybe so, but I’m not sure whether Tesla really needed Elon Musk.

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      Really? So where are all its peer competitors? This person has obviously gone off the rails but was once extremely good at making seemingly impossible things happen.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, all those losers born in Soweto in 1971 who haven’t used their enormous wealth to fund a bunch of different business ventures. What are they even doing?

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        3 days ago

        The charismatic guy at the top may always get all the credit, but hundreds of other people played a role in Tesla’s success. He wasn’t even a founder of the company. All we can really say is that he bought in at the right time, but we don’t know how much of Tesla’s success was down to his personal decisions. If anything, it seems like Tesla’s decline really started when Musk started using the company more and more for his personal pet projects (Cybertruck, Teslabots etc) rather than the cars that people actually want.

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        was once extremely good at making seemingly impossible things happen.

        Seeing them land the Starship booster on the chopsticks - I’d say that he still is.