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Re:SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video] by spike021 on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:24AM (#15363177)
His presentation style usually seems to be pretty raw, in a good way. It's not as crisp/polished as Jobs' presentations were, or in fact others.

As in, it's not as marketable. It's doesn't seem like it's been a style of preparation for a pure sales/marketing kind of pitch.

Kind of interesting, in my opinion.

Re:SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video] by Osmium on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:42AM (#15363258)
> His presentation style usually seems to be pretty raw, in a good way.

Completely agreed that it's raw in a good way -- you can tell he really has technical detail down too, I noticed one of the times when a slide left too early he still knew the numbers that had been on it. Also he has an understated sense of humor ("mountain").

I also sometimes got the sense he genuinely was in awe at what he was seeing. Like it still took him by surprise. It was interesting to watch.

> It's not as crisp/polished as Jobs' presentations were

All this said, I wish there were a Jobs-like figure to sell SpaceX. I'm sure there are people who'd disagree with me on this, but I can only imagine how popular/well-known SpaceX would be if they had someone who could pitch to the general public. SpaceX keynotes could be tune-in television with the right person, but it'd have to be someone really tied to the company, I don't think you could hire someone to do this. It'd have to be authentic.

Re:SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video] by piyush_soni on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:08AM (#15363355)
Honestly, I'd cringe if he started doing Jobs' style presentations. It's good the way it is!
Re:SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video] by DrBazza on Friday September 29, 2017 @12:51PM (#15366901)
Interesting that you mention Jobs in that Musk said, just like Jobs did, that he's reducing the product line to one thing, to increase economies of scale.