Posted on 10/27/2018 6:55:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
Elon Musk is a phenomenon that is really tough to get a handle on. After reading nearly everything available on him, the only conclusion I can come to is that he’s an odd dude. Then again, 25 or so years ago, that was my assessment of Donald Trump, so who knows? I don’t.
He’s always been unstable. In a couple years he’ll turn into a fake Trump supporter and start sending out fake mail bombs.
They have suffered a decline in market value, but they are still higher in value than they were in April 2017.
Plus, being valued at $300 billion for only $7 billion in annual revenue is impressive.
I would not write off Musk so fast.
A rather late-to-the-party hit piece and smear from TownScrawl. Tesla stock has jumped 25% upward in the past week or so thanks to brightening financials, and Musk is still in charge. In space exploration his SpaceX is whipping the ass off the launch business, to the point where the successes have actually become a little routine and boring.
If that is so, than the guy who was arrested in Florida is already ahead of him.
Yep... Public markets aside... It would be like writing off Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, or General Dynamics.
“There are companies that are trying to do that, and who are at least as mismanaged as Tesla was during Musk’s agony.”
It seems that the author is hesitant to name Google, Twitter, and Facebook for obvious reasons. Elon Musk never wielded much if any power over the public that those three corporations did not grant him. But their days of reckoning will come sooner or later also. They are each an example of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of just so much fluff that can disappear almost over night to be replaced by some other ethereal entity with hardly a whimper from the billions of people who visit their online presence daily.
Musk crossed a line and the big three have abandoned him for now at least. Whether this was all an example of extreme hubris or a carefully choreographed transfer of power to the more traditional manufacturers of automobiles and space travel products is a question few will ever really know.
He violated the cardinal rule and pointed out a pedophile. DC freaks out when someone points out pedophiles. Too much at risk with the spirit cooking perverts and the Hasterts we have yet to learn about. 6 weeks later Musk was toast.
And then…the car missed. Instead of settling into Mars’ orbit, it flew off into space to God knows where, a tiny insignificant red speck floating forever in the vast, anonymous darkness of the universe.
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Fake News.
SpaceX knows the exact orbit. What SpaceX did was to use all the propellant to see how far they could go. The intent was never to go directly to Mars or the Mars orbit, but to go at least that far.
I’ve been saying here on FR that I see a lot of similarities between Trump and Musk. They even went to the same business school.
True, Musk collapsed under his own weight and cost investors $20 billion,
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Did the author check Tesla’s stock price yesterday before hitting the enter key?
Starting & building & running ONE company successfully is something most people cannot do.
Musk is running THREE.
And before that he built and sold two.
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At least it wasn’t a Mercury.
It would be confusing to have TWO of them in orbit!
Or a Saturn.
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