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Re:SpaceX will soon fire up its Super Heavy booster for the ... by phpnode on Thursday July 15, 2021 @01:07PM (#27847010)
I would probably spend my time focussed on growing and sustaining my companies and hiring very skilled people to do that engineering work for me, I'd be very interested in the engineering work, but I wouldn't be doing that work myself. Similarly I don't expect Mark Zuckerberg writes much code at facebook these days, there's just too much other stuff to do
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Re:SpaceX will soon fire up its Super Heavy booster for the ... by soperj on Thursday July 15, 2021 @04:32PM (#27849755)
If you're goal is literally just a successful company, then sure that makes sense. But if you actually have a passion for what you do (and I'm not arguing that Zuckerberg doesn't have a passion for spying on people), and the company is already a huge success, why wouldn't you spend your time doing something that you think is really really cool and hire very skilled people to do the other stuff?
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Re:SpaceX will soon fire up its Super Heavy booster for the ... by mensetmanusman on Thursday July 15, 2021 @06:51PM (#27851033)
Exactly this.

If your goal is to get rich and play golf and relax, that is one thing. The fact that Elon is one of the wealthiest people in the world and also as passionate as someone working in their garage seems kind of like a crazy situation.

I wonder if there is similar historical precedence in terms of an ultra wealthy person being interested and involved like he is.

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