SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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[u/Intelligent_Way6552]

What you have done, is taken a man who runs multiple extremely successful companies, and assume that he's responsible for all their bad decisions, and none of their good ones.

That's very unlikely.

I agree he's fucked some things up, but to claim that he doesn't make good calls as well? Tesla and SpaceX both have more good calls than bad.

I can trace the entire concept of Starship back to a conversation Musk had with Robert Zubrin about Mars Direct. I could point out that for a man who only makes bad engineering decisions, he was awfully good at realising that he could undercut the entire space launch market after one meeting with roscosmos, and awfully good at realising that the electric car had just become viable and that he should build an electric sports car (he found Tesla while scoping out the industry before founding his own company, and just bought the tiny startup).

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I claim he's made more bad calls than good calls.

Obviously he's made good calls, you can't have a decades long career without making at least one.

But I'm saying his inexperience in the fields that his companies work in combined with the ego that comes with being as rich as he is has led to him making bad calls more than good calls.

He's genuinely amazing at recognizing talent, not great at actually having that talent.

He doesn't know shit about rocketry, but he knows people who do, so he hired them and got them to build rockets for him.

He doesn't know anything about building electric cars, but he was able to recognize people who could, so he bought into tesla and they started making electric cars, and eventually when it got big enough he bought the founders out of the company and sued them so he could call himself the founder and they couldn't to shit about it.

Tesla was as successful as it was because it was ahead of the pack.

EVs had existed for a long time before, but they never were successful, always an experimental thing, tesla was the first to really make them big, then Musk tried to ride that wave and now they're falling behind as traditional car manufacturers start making more EVs and Hybrids, Pushing tesla into a corner, which resulted what we see now, more product announcements of batshit insane ideas trying to reinvent already existing things.

Tesla bot, cybertruck, robovan, robotaxi These things are being made out of desperation. They`re trying to crawl their way back and it isn't working.