He didn't, he bought in to a company that was already set on doing it.
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Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Since it’s only been a week, a lot of those people are going to come back. But now they’re coming back with updated resumes and a linked in pro subscription. The good folks will be bailing in the coming months, but they’ll stay and work in a half ass way since it’s better than unemployment and cobra. Musk basically insured uncontrolled attrition.
How did this idiot actually manage to ship cars to begin with?
Zorque@kbin.social 4 months ago
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My point being, development of the consumer cars didn’t really kick off instill after Tarpenning and Eberhard left, and I don’t see how this current iteration of Musk would’ve pulled that off. I feel like this iteration of Musk would’ve fucked up Telsa spectacularly.
When the roadster shipped in 2008, that company could only hand make a few hundred cars a year and they didn’t even know how to make their own chassis, seats, infotainment software, etc. They had powertrain tech, and that’s about it.
The vast majority of the consumer product development and manufacturing tech was built after the OG founders left.
Zorque@kbin.social 4 months ago
A company is more than its most visible members. There were likely plenty of competent people in the hierarchy that were there before Musk and were able to continue that trend of competency until Musk decided he needed to control more and more of the intricacies of the company.
The difference isnt what he was doing before to make things run smoothly so much as what he wasn't... that being getting in the way. He was a glorified PR guy. Which he was great at. Running a tech and manufacturing company? Not so much.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 months ago
but they’ll stay and work in a half ass way since it’s better than unemployment and cobra.
Yep. Or they’ll stay and do no work at all and count on it taking a long while for anyone to even notice.
it certainly isn’t competent management they’re working for.
mynachmadarch@kbin.social 4 months ago
He had better handlers and PR team back then so more people thought he was just an eccentric billionaire Playboy inventor and were willing to do the dirty work needed to make it happen.
Valmond@lemmy.world 4 months ago
All his pedo calling and right wing crazy got online when he fired them.
ripcord@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think he was genuinely better back then too.
Something broke 4 or so years ago and has been getting progressively worse.
CheesyGordita@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think part of it was he had a really tough time dealing with California covid regulations for his business. It wasn’t something he could buy his way out of or pad someone’s pocket to make go away and they were very serious about it. In the same vein, that’s around the time his daughter came out as trans and you can see how that ended with her changing her name and completely disassociating herself from him. Combine that all with a slow (arguable) but consistent decline in the public’s admiration and opinion of him (which he craves desperately) and he began to crack.
Started running into things he couldn’t control or pay to go away and couldn’t cope I guess… I dunno
skyspydude1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I can tell you, knowing people who worked with the guy since the original launch of the Model S, he’s always been like this. He’s always been a loud mouthed idiot, and he’s always been insanely unpredictable. The only thing that changed has been his PR team and personal handlers, and how much the news media is willing to focus on how much of a POS the dude is.
3ntranced@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s why you see hyper-wealthy dissolve everh so often. When you’re used to total control and suddenly things that you cannot change no matter how much money you throw at it, you start to lose it.
jj4211@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean if you read some of what his first wife wrote, he was pretty much this bad. Though at the time she was saying it the world didn’t want to hear it. He also did the whole retcon Tesla to be founded by him over 15 years ago, in some pretty petty behavior. When x.com failed relative to PayPal, he somehow managed to get them to merge and make him the head of PayPal, and then they kicked him down when we almost tanked PayPal.
It basically seems that a critical mass of people were covering for him and propping up the brand of his name and image, likely for the sake of their investments. Which should be a fairly familiar story, because 80s Trump had the same things going on, very bad business results glossed over by investors needing to keep the Trump brand strong for the sake of their own money. Both trump and musk successfully tied up some big business fate with their names specifically, forcing investors to play into the conceit.
turmacar@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He let the crazy veil slip a bit during the Thai cave rescue drama, but Covid seems to have really pushed him over the edge.
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah I’d say it started more like 8 years ago. When he started going crazy on Twitter.
lemmyhavesome@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think what changed was that he started using ketamine.