This is the guy who’s had more than a few successful businesses now. A lot of smart people did want to work with him. Andrej Karpathy himself has said that Elon was very quick to pick up AI technically. That doesn’t sound like a “fundamentally dumb” guy to me
for the purpose of this thread saying “Elon is fundamentally a dumb guy” is a statement of opinion, one that a growing number of people agree with
Was buying twitter a mistake? Sure. Did he make dumb decisions when it comes to twitter? Yes. But IMO, that’s very different than labelling someone “fundamentally dumb”
seems a lot of people confound funding and founding, he was one of Tesla's early funders, but he was not part of the team that founded it.
> he sank an initial investment of more than $6 million into Tesla, which was then not much more than a pair of founders and a vision of electric sports cars.
– https://time.com/6127754/elon-musk-net-worth-person-of-the-y...
> So AC Propulsion CEO Gage suggested Musk speak with electric car start-up Tesla Motors, which was also looking to commercialize the tzero. Musk reasoned that by teaming up with another company, he could “have my cake and eat it too,” he said on the podcast – he could still run SpaceX but also pursue his passion for electric cars in his spare time.
> “I didn’t think it would be easy, but I thought maybe I could allocate 20 to 30 hours a week and just work on product engineering, and then other people could do the other stuff. I didn’t like doing the other stuff anyway,” Musk said.
– https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/elon-musk-i-really-didnt-wan...
Or do you mean claims about Elon? It would suit your comment better to be more specific, please try to do so in the future :)
"Elon thought he'd be able to wiggle out of it because he assumed the SEC would be the regulatory body he'd be up against"
Bullshit like this has no relation to reality whatsoever.