More like bewilderment on how many times someone can not deliver on promise yet still get people throwing money at them
Millions of electric cars, thousands of charging stations, thousands of powerwalls, thousands of Starlink satellites and re-usable rockets weren't delivered?
No one delivers 100%, but that's a historically exceptional track record.
Re:Welcome to Hell, Elon
by bryanlarsen on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:36AM
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Elon predicted in 2013 that Tesla would be shipping 500,000 cars a year by 2020. That was a crazy insane prediction that he delivered on, among many other similar predictions.
Nobody expects all predictions to come true -- professional futurists have a batting rate of about 10%.
I'm talking about stuff people preordered and still didn't got, not on his predictions.
Re:Welcome to Hell, Elon
by cercatrova on Saturday October 29, 2022 @05:00PM
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Maybe people should stop preordering then. It's a dumb practice anyway, in any field, not just Teslas.
Musk failed at countless things. It's pure delusion to think that he has "repeated success in different domains."
Engineering.
Finance.
Management.
Electric cars.
Charging stations.
Satellites.
Reusable rockets.
Are you seriously listing things as vague as "engineering" and "management?"
He's the chief engineer of the leading space company and successfully manages thousands of employees across several companies. That's not vague.
It's a lot easier to dismiss someone's success when it only happens once.