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Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold by andrepd on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:25AM (#31366006)
I was under the impression he was the money / marketing guy, I didn't realise he built or designed any rockets / EVs himself.
Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold by blairbeckwith on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:33AM (#31366088)
Even if this was true (nearly everyone who has studied Musk says that although he may not lead day to day engineering, he is gifted at figuring this stuff out)…

It is clearly non-trivial to rally a group of people, funding sources, and, er, marketing resources to accomplish what he has accomplished.

Evidence: nobody else has done it.

Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold by danparsonson on Friday May 13, 2022 @08:29AM (#31366673)
> Evidence: nobody else has done it.

Er... what? He's focussed his attention on some specific problems and made good progress solving them; people have been doing that for as long as there have been people.

Sure he's had great success and clearly does a lot of things well. He's not singular in that.

Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold by martyvis on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:56AM (#31366357)
You need to watch this interview with Tim Dodd (the space YouTuber) and you'll realise in the first 15 minutes he really is an engineer https://youtu.be/t705r8ICkRw
Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold by e8gy3 on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:33AM (#31366084)
This! Amazes me everyone thinks he’s the brain behind the incredible technologies his companies create.