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Azure · 11-05-2022, 12:30 PM

I think two things can be true at the same time. He is far to caught up in himself as evidenced by his tweets the past week.

His companies tend to perform well.

Tesla
SpaceX
Starlink
Etc

FSD might be completely fraudulent at this point, but to be part of building an EV company that actually produces cars, has multiple factories worldwide, and sells for the most part a nice product that people enjoy is not a small feat.

Building a space company that has brought back launch capabilities into US hands is a big deal.

Building a satellite based internet system that provides low latency high bandwidth internet to the world is a big deal.

Did he do all that by himself? No, of course not. He obviously has a lot of very talented people that work for him. But he also clearly has some kind of intangible that he is bringing to the table that is allowing these ventures to be successful. It doesn't mean he's a good engineer, or a good manager (by all accounts he is a ####ty manager), but there is something for sure.

Maybe he's just simply good at recruiting talent that is willing to work 80 hours per week to build some of these things, who knows.

At the same time, like most rich people, he is obviously a ######bag who has echo chamber type mentality. This is mostly true of all rich people (Gates, Bezos, etc). Nobody ever wonders why Bill Gates, as one of the richest people ever, would associate with Epstein, but magically claim to not ever know what he was up too? If you believe that, there is some ocean front property I can sell you. At some point they all think their own #### doesn't smell.

Even a guy like Buffet who is very much low key has a killer no holds barred mentality when it comes to how he runs his companies.

Of course all that doesn't mean Twitter will be successful, because I'm not sure that you can truly be profitable as a social media company, but it also doesn't mean he's a moron either when it comes to building successful companies.

Reading the replies here by some people, y'all spend too much time of the crazy part of Reddit.

11-05-2022, 12:30 PM	#797
Azure Had an idea! Join Date: Oct 2005 Exp:	I think two things can be true at the same time. He is far to caught up in himself as evidenced by his tweets the past week. His companies tend to perform well. Tesla SpaceX Starlink Etc FSD might be completely fraudulent at this point, but to be part of building an EV company that actually produces cars, has multiple factories worldwide, and sells for the most part a nice product that people enjoy is not a small feat. Building a space company that has brought back launch capabilities into US hands is a big deal. Building a satellite based internet system that provides low latency high bandwidth internet to the world is a big deal. Did he do all that by himself? No, of course not. He obviously has a lot of very talented people that work for him. But he also clearly has some kind of intangible that he is bringing to the table that is allowing these ventures to be successful. It doesn't mean he's a good engineer, or a good manager (by all accounts he is a ####ty manager), but there is something for sure. Maybe he's just simply good at recruiting talent that is willing to work 80 hours per week to build some of these things, who knows. At the same time, like most rich people, he is obviously a ######bag who has echo chamber type mentality. This is mostly true of all rich people (Gates, Bezos, etc). Nobody ever wonders why Bill Gates, as one of the richest people ever, would associate with Epstein, but magically claim to not ever know what he was up too? If you believe that, there is some ocean front property I can sell you. At some point they all think their own #### doesn't smell. Even a guy like Buffet who is very much low key has a killer no holds barred mentality when it comes to how he runs his companies. Of course all that doesn't mean Twitter will be successful, because I'm not sure that you can truly be profitable as a social media company, but it also doesn't mean he's a moron either when it comes to building successful companies. Reading the replies here by some people, y'all spend too much time of the crazy part of Reddit.