...For example, I found out that Mr Musk did not start Tesla.

Wow.

So, all this hype about Tesla is not to Mr Musk's credit.
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#5 | Posted by LampLighter

I spent a large part of my career in Silicon Valley, and I've pretty much had nothing but disdain for fElon Musk since his days at PayPal, a company he co-founded through a merger of his X.com and a company called Confinity. The board of directors, led by Peter Thiel, kicked him out because he's an -----, but you'll hear something something business genius.

I lived a few blocks away from the original Tesla showroom in Menlo Park (also not far from the original Facebook building in Palo Alto). The entrepreneurs/brains behind Tesla were Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. fElon Musk used his PayPal money to swoop in and take credit for "inventing" Tesla.

Around the same time, he was involved in a startup called SolarCity, founded by his cousins. He eventually shuffled his stock ownership around, trying to merge part of the technology to create batteries and solar panels to run the expensive electric cars he was taking credit for inventing...his ideas were likely sound on that issue, but he doesn't understand regulations, laws and the idea of "public utilities" - dude wants to run roughshod over everyone because he is the most smartest JeniUs in the world.

The one company he totally built was The Boring Company - that brilliant idea essentially killed HSR between LA and Las Vegas. It is also a fraud, but don't take my word for it.

The brain behind SpaceX was Thomas John Mueller, employee #1 and the reason that company was able to survive. Musk's ties to Moscow factor into the success of SpaceX, going back (at least) to 2001. Musk basically bought a bunch of different companies and spun off some successes like Starlink, and on the verge of bankruptcy, Falcon1 launched, saving the company. He is more like Steve Jobs in this regard (Apple was nothing without Wozniak).

Musk didn't invent anything. He's the classic Silicon Valley tech-bro, born on third base and claims he hit a triple. He does a lot of ketamine, is clearly on the spectrum and has a dozen kids from multiple women. His trans daughter offers the best insight into his character, and it's not good.

If you want to know what is going to happen in 2025, look up Peter Thiel. Musk is tied to Putin, Peter Thiel and now FDT. JD Vance is Peter Thiel's b-tch-boy, too.