Elon is not a visionary, nor the founder
The three archetypes
Submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemmings.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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pyre@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
entwine@programming.dev 8 hours ago
False. He sees grift opportunities nobody else can.
But yeah, he’s not the founder.
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Musk isnt a founder of shit even if he just took a dump.
Bad maymay made by an uneducated moron
Deme@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Musk isn’t even the founder of tesla though.
Good meme regardless.
BillyClark@piefed.social 1 day ago
Yep, he invested in the existing Tesla company, and then forced them to list him as a founder.
If Elon Musk is the founder of Tesla, then Stalin was the founder of Berlin.
Gladaed@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Yeah. But probably spend a lot of money and marketing to get them through the founding stage, iirc. Just because someone overtakes a young company doesn’t mean they didn’t have an impact.
Sank the ship, too.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
True on both accounts
Klear@quokk.au 1 day ago
He’s not a founder, or a visionary. The rest is spot on, though.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 day ago
Yeah I was about to say the same thing.
itkovian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Elon Musk is not visionary. He is more of a “let me pretend to create this dumb convoluted thing that would not work, but seems like it might” type of asshole.
Tja@programming.dev 1 day ago
Not a visionary and not the founder. Just an investor.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
In point of fact, he bought the title of “founder”. Seriously - look it up.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Well, maybe his assholeness makes up for the other two parts of the criteria.
nomecks@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
He invested heavily in EVs before everyone else. He got into working satellite internet before everyone else. He built a successful private rocket company before everyone else. How was he not a visionary?
He may have swindled and stole and kicked out orignal founders, but that’s the asshole part to a tee.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Every one of those already had an engineering base that was flourishing, he just dumped capital into them and then PR’ed the shit out of his own idiocy to make it seem like each company’s idea was his own.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 day ago
If we want to give Musk some benefit of doubt the only visionary thing he did was SpaceX. Pretty much every other venture he’s invested in has been either someone else’s vision or something very stupid (like what the Boring Company is doing). I don’t think he deserves to be called a visionary when his contribution isn’t the vision but a fat wallet.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
He got into working satellite internet before everyone else
Satellite internet has existed before Starlink. What’s novel about starlink is that the satellites are much closer to earth, which allows for a low ping, but comes at the cost of needing to replace the satellites every few years, as they’ll deorbit by themselves, and needing a whole lot more of them. It only offers an advantage over cheaper alternatives (terrestrial internet or satellite internet in geostationary orbit) when you’re somewhere without proper infrastructure, and those areas tend to not be wealthy. So, the question is, is there enough demand to pay for replacing the entire constellation of satellites every few years?
TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The 1800s would refute the first claim, Hughes for the second, and wasn’t starship supposed to already have landed on the moon by now? His vision is knowing a sucker when he sees one.
FishFace@piefed.social 1 day ago
Sorry, “musk bad” is just a more important vibe than creating the Model S and a charging network at a time when electric cars were Nissan Leafs that could go five miles and then overhead.
None of the people downvoting you had these opinions in 2015. Musk is a nazi cunt but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have vision back then. Unfuck your heads.
jambudz@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Elon musk did not found Tesla. He bought it and then wrote in his name as founder.
atthecoast@feddit.nl 7 hours ago
Hacker, Hustler, Hipster 😄
sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 1 day ago
As far as I knows, Linus dropped that asshole founder mode, and moved on. There was a write up by him, how the linux conference and his holiday plans got overlapped, which forced him to rethink a lot about himself. Great person.
cm0002@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Linus has made a lot of great strides the last idk couple years or so bettering himself and his attitudes towards things lol
jimmux@programming.dev 1 day ago
Didn’t his kid also have a lot to do with the transformation?
qqq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think his ability to see the problems in the way he acted, and then actually act on it, even when a bunch of people encouraged it, is impressive.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can call Linus a lot things but stylish is a bit of a stretch.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Style is arbitrary. He’s stylish if enough people say he’s stylish.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Visionary?
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
for steve jobs and elon musk it is indeed wrong, they are both blinded by capital, there is no vision, only greed
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s also wrong for St Linus. He was a college student trying a project for fun when he started. Part of what makes Linux great is that it isn’t something made from the ground up to change the world or to be its founder’s career. It was an interesting project that was so useful it wound up being adopted and evolving into what it is
Superorbit@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Not sure Tesla goes up there in legendary projects. Don’t get me wrong I have issues with apple too, but they’ve released several mechanically interesting products. Tesla released a few and has now fallen behind BYD. Their reign was simply too short in comparison to the other projects imo.
nieminen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Musk also didn’t found it
flango@lemmy.eco.br 1 day ago
JB guy is literally two-face from batman
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
A man for every C-suite
arcine@jlai.lu 7 hours ago
Elon Musk did not found Tesla.