After a weekend of whoppers about X and fighting Mark Zuckerberg, the press should take a more skeptical approach

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    1 year ago

    Would SpaceX not count in that? I get that he, himself is not the guy who made the rocket, but without his money that first rocket and the COTS program would have never existed.

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      1 year ago

      His only successes with SpaceX and Tesla are buying startups and then pumping them full of cash whilst adding aggressive goals. It’s really the various teams that were successful, not Musk. If you want to credit his success, that would be betting the farm on some decently cutting edge startups and then proceeding to win those bets investment-wise.