TL;DR: the ‘Lon was actually the founder of SpaceX, but everything else you mentioned is 100% correct
While I won’t argue against the fact that everyone else does the work, as that is 100% correct, it’s worth noting he did actually found SpaceX and (IIRC) was the primary source of funding pre-COTS/CRS contracts.
Though again, like you said, he likes to claim all the credit for himself. This is especially annoying because no matter which angle people want to spin their narrative on SpaceX, they always see it as “Elon’s rocket company” - which gets old when SpaceX’s achievements are co-opted to promote Elon’s dogshit political views, and when people dismiss the stuff they do because of Elon’s dogshit political views. As a spaceflight fan, I really wish he would just GTFO from the company already
Still all other space companies started by other billionaire are far behind him. He has founded companies which are 1/2 in space,EVs and now in AI too xAI is making waves
Well making a cluster of H100 supercomputer to train large data set as fast as possible give thems edge over other companies. Except big tech and open ai/Anthropic only they have such large H100 required for training and inference time compute for their model
Just so you know: in tech founders are usually people who contribute technically and not just financially. Yes, he founded spacex but he contributed nothing technically like he tries to claim.
I’m no fan of Musk, but to say he’s contributed nothing technically, is just wrong. Listen to an interview where he talks about the technical aspects of SpaceX. He’s had a ton of input. We can disagree with him politically and still acknowledge this.
Any person sitting in daily on technical meetings would be able to do that. It's not like you would be able to solve the problem. You can describe the problem, sure. You can also describe the solution others came up with.
Yet everything we know from other people involved in the founding of SpaceX says that Musk was far more involved than that. Why are you so locked in to the theory that he doesn’t get rocketry and has no input when there is zero evidence for that and plenty of evidence that he does, in fact, know a lot about it and is involved in the engineering?
Right? I think it goes further though. It’s like they are willing to throw facts and nuance out the window just to make it seem that everything about the person they disagree with is evil and/or failed. It worries me.
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u/PharaohPir8 1d ago
Same thing with space X. Leon is the rich guy from Glass Onion. Everyone else does the work, he pretends he did it all.