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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by mtgx on Thursday September 27, 2018 @04:57PM (#18088600)
> What if Tesla's progress want because of Musk, but in spite of Musk

No way that's true. No way. If you believe that then you must also believe SpaceX and him leading the company to create re-usable rockets was also just a fluke.

So Musk somehow just stumbled upon a highly successful, innovative, and cost-effective private rocket company, while also stumbling upon the first new American company to survive (for now, and as long as it has) in the car market in 100 years and also one that happens to build EVs from scratch.

Musk must have one hell of a luck to keep stumbling upon these sort of companies that "could have succeeded even without him."

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by ckastner on Thursday September 27, 2018 @05:03PM (#18088653)
SpaceX is a genuine astounding success, no doubt about it.

My opinion is that this success has clouded his judgment.

"Everybody told me SpaceX can't work, and I made it work. Everybody is telling me $THING at Tesla can't work, therefore I know I'll make it work, and everybody else must be wrong".

SpaceX was a novel endeavor. Building a car production plant is not.

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Re:SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private ... by gamblor956 on Thursday September 27, 2018 @05:17PM (#18088770)
Elon Musk doesn't run the day-to-day at SpaceX. That's been someone else, Gwynne Shotwell, for several years, and everyone credits her with getting SpaceX on track and meeting its contractual deadlines--which was something it wasn't managing when Musk was in charge.
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