Exactly, but “technically” he is credited as a founder. He’s a really good business man.
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Hello_there@kbin.social 6 months ago
Mush didn't found Tesla. He bought it later and put in the contract that he was able to call himself a founder
4realz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
echo64@lemmy.world 6 months ago
He isn’t a “really good business man”, everything he’s made is built on a foundation of lies. Eventually, it’ll collapse or be saved by socialised systems for being too big to fail. Musk is a con man, not a businessman. He’s just made a living out of conning investors and the public alike.
TheEntity@kbin.social 6 months ago
I don't know, it sounds like the definition of a business man.
echo64@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, businessmen do business. Steve Jobs did business, he figured out markets, created markets based on what his business could provide. That’s actual business.
A grifter, a con man, is not a business man, they wear the skin of one to fool people like yourself into buying into the con. Looks like it works.
4realz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
True.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think it was sarcasm.
Fishytricks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sarcasm doesn’t travel well through text.
4realz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I understand where you’re coming from, but business is brutal and things like this happen in that world. PayPal (formely X .com) was also started by Elon, I don’t think he “scammed/tricked” anyone on that. And he has made billions for his investors over the years. I mean Tesla is worth over $600 billion, due to the marketing genius that is Elon.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Man, learn something about someone before you go worshipping someone.
X was bought by paypal, but was far from “integral.” It was just its largest competitor for Confinidy at the time because Musk was washing it in money he made from a previous venture. Musk was a actually briefly the CEO of PayPal, but his decisions were so poor that he was forced out.. He still retained enough shares of paypal to hit it big time, which is when he poured all hia money into a long shot bet called Tesla, which he used goverment funds and seed capitol from his rich friends to keep alive until it turned an actual profit a decade later.
Dude grew up with emerald mine money, then just kept taking outlandish risks because he had an emerald mine to keep his ass housed and fed, and yeah, eventually hit it big. Super duper.
Turns out that if you have a wealthy life always secured at hands, you too could gamble big and make even more money. Thats how capitalism is deisgned to work. Capital makes more capital.
The fact that you’re suckered in bu the worlds best gambler play a game that had no negative stakes for him is sad as fuck man. Be proud of someone who overcame actual adversity for fucks sake
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 6 months ago
He didn’t start PayPal. It was founded by Pieter Thiel, another billionaire christofascist, and four other guys and non of them are called Elon Musk. X.com was bought by PayPal.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
He isn’t a “really good business man”
I find it absolutely hilarious that literally anyone thinks one of the wealthiest people in the world “isn’t a good business man”. Like how completely proposterous is that?
It just speaks the the absolute bias of people who don’t like him and can’t possibly say anything that might be poorly construed as positive.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 6 months ago
I think that the criticism is that our system does not raise the smartest or the best to the top.
DarkGamer@kbin.social 6 months ago
I think the whole Twitter debacle has disproven that he's a good businessman. Rather, it highlights how far one can get by having heritable wealth and being in the right place at the right time.
penguin@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
He’s successful in spite of himself. He makes terrible decisions constantly.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 6 months ago
He seems like the avatar of the concept that rich people are not being allowed to fail in society, no matter how hard they try. Once you reach a certain size, there will always be an army of people around them to hold them up.
Musk is too big to fail.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
I guess when you have enough money you get to try enough times that you accidentally make good choices sometimes. Or people just think he’s smart because he’s rich.
Plopp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Being credited as something doesn’t mean you are that something. My ex credited me for having a big penis.
Elon is not a founder of Tesla, no matter what any documents say. Calling him such when you know he isn’t makes you a liar, a fool or a co-conspirator.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Now I am laughing because I am imagining you working the big penis anecdote into every comment and conversation.
That would be a funny bit.
TigrisMorte@kbin.social 6 months ago
twist: Plopp is the penis' account.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Or it could be said that he found Tesla in the “finders keepers” sense.
BossDj@lemm.ee 6 months ago
My brain now can’t unsee how stupid the word Founded looks next to found.
tb_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Is it shaking your entire foundation?