He clearly misses that removing key people and staff, destroys tons of progress and tribal knowledge at the company. It takes a lot of money and effort to regain the momentum. However he does remind me of an old company owner I worked for that went from a start up in a saturated market to industry leader by being totally uncompromising in his decisions. He also left a wake of destruction, but the innovation was there because he would no stand for a no from somebody
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anachronist@midwest.social 5 months ago
Spite and pettiness seem like a poor way to run a business but what do I know? I’m just a guy who’s gotten zero starships successfully to orbit.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Musk doesn’t do anything but buy companies and interrupt their work with his baby shit. His only skill is having money.
All of his “he refuses to accept no!” Turns into “shoulda fucking listened to who told you no, idiot” in a matter or months or less.
He’s so stupid, but powerful because of money and the cult that keeps letting him have it.
coffeetest@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Nazi scientist probably made some advances, but that doesn’t make it a good way to go.
Vodulas@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Musk is also a guy who’s gotten zero starships into orbit. The engineers at Space X have, and to a certain extent Gwynne Shotwell is a part of that, but that is despite Musk, not because of him.
anachronist@midwest.social 5 months ago
Yeah that was the joke. 🙃
Vodulas@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Sorry, there are so many Musk stans that would say that exact thing, I 100% missed the joke
dgriffith@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Mmm I’d take Common Sense Skeptic’s spaceX videos with about a ton of salt. They’ve got a real big bug up their ass about spaceX for some reason.
anachronist@midwest.social 5 months ago
Which part of the video is wrong? The fact is that it failed to reach planned velocity. This is public record. If it did not reach planned velocity then it did not reach the non-circualized suborbit that they intended. They were not “just a circulization away from orbit.”
The CSS channel was created when Musk and Shotwell were making bonkers claims about their Mars plans, as well as other crazy bullshit like the suborbital rocket airline stuff. The point of CSS is that none of their claims pencil out if you do even basic math, and they proved that by doing the math. They’ve also gone after other space grifters like orbital assembly.