Twitter Sues Elon Musk

Re:Twitter Sues Elon Musk by walrus01 on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @03:31AM (#32079922)

I am familiar with the history that SpaceX almost failed when the falcon 1 failed to work, but I can't say I have a huge amount of sympathy for musk taking an immense risk.

I'm sure he had enough money set aside even then from PayPal/x.com that even if SpaceX had gone belly up he could have bought a very nice house somewhere and lived in a very comfortable lifestyle for the rest of a human lifespan just living off the interest from $15-20 million.

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Re:Twitter Sues Elon Musk by ghufran_syed on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @05:05AM (#32080396)

I think his original plan was to have around $40 million left over even if tesla and spacex failed, but when they both ran into difficulties in 2008-9 IIRC, I think he put the rest of his money into both companies to keep them going

https://youtu.be/AeeeEDSekG8?t=3663

[EDIT: in this interview he talks about the fact he had “no money” and had to borrow money for rent around that time]

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Re:Twitter Sues Elon Musk by BonoboIO on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:07AM (#32082932)

If you can trust Elon with things he says. Over the years I got really skeptical.

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Re:Twitter Sues Elon Musk by rurp on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:12AM (#32083795)

Given all of the other actions I've seen from Elon, I wouldn't say he's a reliable narrator.

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Re:Twitter Sues Elon Musk by yarg on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @03:41AM (#32079971)

I'm sure he had the engineering nous and connections to find his way back from oblivion, but (unless he exaggerated) things we near dire for him financially.

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