Re:Jules Verne’s Most Famous Books Were Part of a 54-Volume ...
by hyperpallium on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:54AM
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He's good at promotion and raising capital, and has real products that function... but I can't believe he's only a salesman.
OTOH how would you go about assessing his engineering ability? He was accepted into a Stanford PhD program. An ex-employee of spacex was amazed how he absorbed a textbook of rocket science.
Unlike Eistein, he hasn't written any papers himself (AFAIK), so we can't assess his work directly.
I would guess his primary role is being a technically and business-aware coach for engineers who actually do the work - like Steve Jobs. But maybe he is a genuine engineering genius himself - but how could we tell?
OTOH how would you go about assessing his engineering ability? He was accepted into a Stanford PhD program. An ex-employee of spacex was amazed how he absorbed a textbook of rocket science.
Unlike Eistein, he hasn't written any papers himself (AFAIK), so we can't assess his work directly. I would guess his primary role is being a technically and business-aware coach for engineers who actually do the work - like Steve Jobs. But maybe he is a genuine engineering genius himself - but how could we tell?