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Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue by compcoffee on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:18AM (#17471125)
>he definitely seems to have achieved much more in his life (I mean, last 15 years) in engineering than most other marketers, promotoers, or, well, engineers.

In what sense? Because the companies he runs do great engineering? Was Steve Ballmer a great engineer because Microsoft built great things? What about Steve Jobs?

Elon Musk is great at a crucial skill for CEOs: selling a vision.

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Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue by tomp on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:32AM (#17471223)
> selling a vision

You mean, financing a vision? I don't see many other billionaires doing that (Gates & Buffet excluded).

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Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue by compcoffee on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:45AM (#17471309)
>You mean, financing a vision?

Do you say that because his wealth is tied up in the companies? Yeah, and Zuckerberg "finances" Facebook, and Larry Ellison "finances" Oracle, and Larry and Sergy "finance" Google...

Tesla has sold vast amounts of equity and debt. That's how the company is financed.

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Re:Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue by tomp on Friday July 06, 2018 @10:20AM (#17471561)
No, becaues he spent his own earned/liquid wealth to start up and finance these companies, before they reached any level of success that enabled them to be financed externally.
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