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Re:Welcome to Hell, Elon by bryanlarsen on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:40AM (#33372842)
Remember that Elon co-founded x.com, which merged with confinity to form PayPal. WeChat is essentially what Elon wanted x.com to become, so it's not totally out of his wheelhouse.

Turning Twitter into WeChat is probably a bigger challenge than sending a rocket to Mars, but...

Re:Welcome to Hell, Elon by Bubble_Pop_22 on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:46AM (#33372939)
> WeChat is essentially what Elon wanted x.com to become

Yeah that doesn't count. Stuff you don't do doesn't count.

Similarly with Tesla, legacy automakers will electrify the world. Being a cheerleader on the side doesn't count.

CEOs are people who sign off quality of life for the people who buy the products/services that the company they lead is selling. And that is all there is to it. There is nothing tough or poetic about it. Sane people are scratching their heads at how some people are falling for the cult of the founder which started with Jobs.