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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by hef19898 on Monday April 25, 2022 @08:59AM (#31153839)
>> People said the same thing about Neurolink and the Boring Company

And both failed.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by belval on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:07AM (#31153962)
If you standard for successful moonshot entrepreneurs is "no failures", it's probably hard to find any.

Risky businesses are risky.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by panick21_ on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:06AM (#31155909)
This person is just making up his own facts. They didn't fail.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by 4eleven7 on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:33AM (#31154384)
How has Neurolink failed? They've successfully implanted within a chimp, allowing the animal to control a game (pong) via its brain. They're now moving onto human trials before the end of the year.

How has Boring Company failed? They've successfully opened the Vegas loop, have a pitch to open a similar project in (I believe) Miami? And now they're looking at building a Hyperloop 'in the coming years'.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by mardifoufs on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:04AM (#31153912)
I don't think they did fail just yet, but even if they did Tesla is still well and alive. It's actually doing better than ever I think. The point was that this is not the beginning of the end for Tesla or SpaceX, just like it wasn't when he started doing those other projects too.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by panick21_ on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:04AM (#31155888)
Why are people who hate Elon Musk so insistent on just making up facts.

Like who are you convincing with this nonsense?

It literally takes 5s of googling to show that you are totally full of shit.

Boring Company just raised 600$+ million $. And is hiring lots of new engineers. They have multiple projects in the pipeline.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by hef19898 on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:21PM (#31157024)
Oh, I am one of those people that don't see raising money as anythng else than success in raising money. Which is success, but doesn't mean that the company is successful, yet.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by panick21_ on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:06PM (#31170070)
Well ok.

So we have a company that is growing and has costumers in the pipeline. Their first costumer is so happy that they want to extend the system considerably.

But that I guess is not enough either?

What more do you want other then happy costumers, new costumers and the ability to raise money on the bases of those things?

This is a company that builds actual machines. They make their own tunnel boring equipment. That is a capital intensive businesses not a software startup. They need to raise money to expand production.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by trixie_ on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:24AM (#31164907)
Raising half a billion dollars is a massive vote of confidence from investors who have poured through the projections in fine detail.