Musk & Twitter
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@nostrildamus said in Musk & Twitter:
@antipodean said in Musk & Twitter:
Yeah, Musk and Musk alone built Tesla.
I assume this is sarcasm but I noticed many people believe this and don't know who Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are.
Well, when Elon joined the company with those two they had five employees, three of them being Musk, Eberhard and Tarpenning. When they left (the other two fighting each other to be CEO) they had delivered 147 cars.
What was built after 2009, particularly around production can be fairly laid at Musk's feet.
Seems to be a weird obsession from his critics to belittle his input, but he clearly has an impact, in multiple companies now.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Musk & Twitter:
@Frank i dont want to have to look that up....please tell me the comments are amazing?
Yes.
I'm surprised she's left the tweet up.
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@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@nostrildamus said in Musk & Twitter:
@antipodean said in Musk & Twitter:
Yeah, Musk and Musk alone built Tesla.
I assume this is sarcasm but I noticed many people believe this and don't know who Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are.
Well, when Elon joined the company with those two they had five employees, three of them being Musk, Eberhard and Tarpenning. When they left (the other two fighting each other to be CEO) they had delivered 147 cars.
What was built after 2009, particularly around production can be fairly laid at Musk's feet.
Seems to be a weird obsession from his critics to belittle his input, but he clearly has an impact, in multiple companies now.
??? Do you have a Tesla??! I wasn't attacking Musk. Just yesterday I was telling someone that if Musk hadn't got electric cars to take a big slice of the market the other companies might not have invested.
Whether he is more interested in money or the environment (I don't know either way and no I don't own a Tesla) I'm not a critic of Musk when it comes to electric cars.
Ad for the record I have been told when it comes to rocket science and engineering he is a bit of a gun.
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@nostrildamus said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@nostrildamus said in Musk & Twitter:
@antipodean said in Musk & Twitter:
Yeah, Musk and Musk alone built Tesla.
I assume this is sarcasm but I noticed many people believe this and don't know who Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning are.
Well, when Elon joined the company with those two they had five employees, three of them being Musk, Eberhard and Tarpenning. When they left (the other two fighting each other to be CEO) they had delivered 147 cars.
What was built after 2009, particularly around production can be fairly laid at Musk's feet.
Seems to be a weird obsession from his critics to belittle his input, but he clearly has an impact, in multiple companies now.
??? Do you have a Tesla??! I wasn't attacking Musk. Just yesterday I was telling someone that if Musk hadn't got electric cars to take a big slice of the market the other companies might not have invested.
Whether he is more interested in money or the environment (I don't know either way and no I don't own a Tesla) I'm not a critic of Musk when it comes to electric cars.
Ad for the record I have been told when it comes to rocket science and engineering he is a bit of a gun.
Didn't mean to sound strident, was just addressing the insinuation that he didn't found Tesla. He's never claimed otherwise, and joined extremely early. Been a lot of comments online (mainly on Twitter) that he's not responsible for any of his company's successes and is some sort of shyster.
It's a very transparent ad hominem attack from a particular political bent.
As for the electric cars, I'd say he's interested in the technical challenges and is very much a sustainable energy guy. He states it as we are going to run out of oil eventually, so why not change what we are using now before it's a bigger problem? Very pragmatic view.
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@Stockcar86 Well the other side is Apple is now advertising again on Twitter (second largest advertiser).
Also got to announce that Apple isn't banning Twitter like they did Parler, etc.
Big wins for Elon IMO.
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@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@Stockcar86 Well the other side is Apple is now advertising again on Twitter (second largest advertiser).
Also got to announce that Apple isn't banning Twitter like they did Parler, etc.
Big wins for Elon IMO.
you are to Elon Musk what stargazer is to David havili
It's cute
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@mariner4life said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@Stockcar86 Well the other side is Apple is now advertising again on Twitter (second largest advertiser).
Also got to announce that Apple isn't banning Twitter like they did Parler, etc.
Big wins for Elon IMO.
you are to Elon Musk what stargazer is to David havili
It's cute
One big difference, I admit my bias.
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@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@mariner4life said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@Stockcar86 Well the other side is Apple is now advertising again on Twitter (second largest advertiser).
Also got to announce that Apple isn't banning Twitter like they did Parler, etc.
Big wins for Elon IMO.
you are to Elon Musk what stargazer is to David havili
It's cute
One big difference, I admit my bias.
fair point!
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Personally I find it highly amusing that so many people who haven't run a successful company are telling someone has has obviously run a successful company how to run a successful company.
Especially when that company's users and traffic has increased since he bought it.
Elon's also made it clear that he didn't buy Twitter as a money making venture, yes I'm sure he didn't buy it with the intent of it loosing money but the primary driver for the purchase wasn't financial gain.
It's kinda like me giving goal kicking tips to Dan Carter...
A lot of the criticism seems simply contrived or illogical at best.
Sure if you wanted to keep Twitter as basically a woke, far left safe space and are upset about "others" been let back in just say that. But to attack the mans business nouse just seems rather silly and petty?
Still it provides good entertainment for a middle of the road no-one like me
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@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@mariner4life said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@Stockcar86 Well the other side is Apple is now advertising again on Twitter (second largest advertiser).
Also got to announce that Apple isn't banning Twitter like they did Parler, etc.
Big wins for Elon IMO.
you are to Elon Musk what stargazer is to David havili
It's cute
One big difference, I admit my bias.
The other big difference is that Musk is somewhat more successful than what DH is...
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@Windows97 said in Musk & Twitter:
But to attack the richest man in the world's mans business nouse just seems rather silly and petty?
fixed that for ya,
yeah, it's weird. He appears to be a colossal arsehole, but has driven step changes in rocketry, electric cars and internet/satellite coverage. Whatever else he does, very few people make that much of a difference.
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@Kiwiwomble said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan law firms have had the for decades
Yup, I remember Clifford Chance in 2005 had their own currency, chef and sleep pods - literally no need for a senior associate to go home