Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha...
by renewiltord on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:48PM
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> Er... fine. But ... much stupider people have had similar success.
Have they? The number of people who have built a Tesla-size company is very small. The ones who have built a SpaceX-size and a Tesla-size one is minuscule.
Re:Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Tha...
by digging on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:41AM
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He was credited with "attracting very smart and ambitious people", not building those companies, and that's what I was referring to. I think it's debatable that he "built" those companies, but we should be specific when we're analyzing a person's qualities.
Er... fine. But ... much stupider people have had similar success. I don't think attracting ambition is a worthwhile trait on its own and it's not something I'm going to praise him for.
Actually, if I step back, I don't even think that's true. Again, he didn't create any of these companies, nor did he run them alone when he was CEO. Many very intelligent engineers joined companies he was running because they believed in the product. They may or may not have even heard of him when they joined a given company.