Lools like the monetization to move away from relying on ads was the right one all along
That would require it actually being sufficient to pay the bills, which at present it is very far from.
More advertisers halt spending on X in growing backlash against Musk
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#32This guy would be considered a genius, admired and respected worldwide, a living legend.. if he'd never opened that Twitter account. But he did, so he's just another eccentric rich idiot.
SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, Neuralink, Boring Company, are you serious that because of some dumb tweets and a questionable personality or political views not everyone agrees with, you think history will overlook all of this? Not a chance, sorry.
x/Twitter is definitively going to overshadow everything else he’s done. Especially with where this is going.
Howard Hughes is way more famous for the spruce goose and being a hypochondriac shut in with the general public than anything else!
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#33This guy would be considered a genius, admired and respected worldwide, a living legend.. if he'd never opened that Twitter account. But he did, so he's just another eccentric rich idiot.
It is better to remain silent and be thought an idiot than to speak and remove all doubt.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think he needs the twitter hype and bots to boost his brands and stock value. I wouldn't be surprised if he were funding these bots to boost himself.
On the contrary, his online activities have always tanked the stock.
His do. I'm proclaiming with no evidence that he buys twitter bots/shills to hype his brands.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
The attention he got because of Twitter has always been overwhelmingly negative, by his own doing. Do you think the guy who founded Tesla and SpaceX needed any more media attention?
He did not found Tesla, did he?
> He did not found Tesla, did he?
There was a legal agreement that allows him to call himself that:
> The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[12][13] Eberhard and Tarpenning served as CEO and CFO, respectively.[14] Eberhard said that he wanted to build "a car manufacturer that is also a technology company", with its core technologies as "the battery, the computer software, and the proprietary motor".[15]
> Ian Wright was Tesla's third employee, joining a few months later.[12] In February 2004, the company raised US$7.5 million (equivalent to $12 million in 2022) in series A funding, including $6.5 million (equivalent to $10 million in 2022) from Elon Musk, who had received $100 million from the sale of his interest in PayPal two years earlier. Musk became the chairman of the board of directors and the largest shareholder of Tesla.[16][17][14] J. B. Straubel joined Tesla in May 2004 as chief technical officer.[18]
> A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five – Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk, and Straubel – to call themselves co-founders.[19]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003–200...
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
He did not found Tesla, did he?
> He did not found Tesla, did he? There was a legal agreement that allows him to call himself that: > The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[12][13] Eberhard and Tarpenning served as CEO and CFO, respectively.[14] Eberhard said that he wanted to build "a car manufacturer that is also a technology company", with its core technologies as "the battery,…
Legal agreements do not supersede facts. He has the legal right to falsely claim he is a/the founder of Tesla, nothing more.
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SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, Neuralink, Boring Company, are you serious that because of some dumb tweets and a questionable personality or political views not everyone agrees with, you think history will overlook all of this? Not a chance, sorry.
He's the CEO of six companies and still finds time to tweet throughout the day. I'm more inclined to believe that these companies are successful despite him, not because of him.
Have you read the issacson book though? Plenty of people that work directly with him talk about how involved he is....for better or worse.
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He's the CEO of six companies and still finds time to tweet throughout the day. I'm more inclined to believe that these companies are successful despite him, not because of him.
It clear he's a great 'salesman' in terms of raising capital and spruiking up share prices, and he's turned that toward some interesting concepts. What is also interesting is part of the act is pretending he is the genius behind the ideas and has a hand in the novel engineering of them, which makes some of his fans love him, and anyone with subject matter expertise on whatever technical things he's saying realise he'…
It's not only that he's raised capital for/funded interesting concepts, it's that he's (mostly) successfully spent money on interesting concepts that the majority of people in the media and in those industries said were not viable.
Even if these insights into specific industries aren't his own, he's savvy enough to recognize their validity and bring together other people who can make those insights reality.
At the same time, he has his fair share of boneheaded boondoggles.
Re: More advertisers halt spending on X in growing backlash against Musk
#39There is a lot here to be think about. Three most interesting points to me are 1. These companies have bottom-of-the-barrel moral standards and don't care what one person on Twitter is Tweeting. This has to be political manoeuvring of some sort. 2. A lot of advertisers were quitting Twitter a while ago weren't they? But it has been months now. If they're still quitting, that suggests the flood of quitters is more of…
> 3. Musk is still the wealthiest human on the planet (in history? I expect in nominal terms he's the wealthiest in history).
John D. Rockefeller would like to have a word if we're talking about Americans, as would Carnegie and Vanderbilt:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_richest_Americans_in_h...
Internationally: Augustus Caesar, Emperor Shenzong, Akbar I:
* https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/31976...
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's the CEO of six companies and still finds time to tweet throughout the day. I'm more inclined to believe that these companies are successful despite him, not because of him.
It clear he's a great 'salesman' in terms of raising capital and spruiking up share prices, and he's turned that toward some interesting concepts. What is also interesting is part of the act is pretending he is the genius behind the ideas and has a hand in the novel engineering of them, which makes some of his fans love him, and anyone with subject matter expertise on whatever technical things he's saying realise he'…
> pretending he is the genius behind the ideas and has a hand in the novel engineering of them
Musk has always been brutally transparent with investors. The personal genius schtick isn't one he pulls when raising capital. (It does play well to a lay audience.)