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re: Musk threatens to leave Trump business council if US exits Paris treaty
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:27 pm to texag7
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:27 pm to texag7
We can debate whether Tesla needs $5 billion but Musk has already built other companies from the ground up without govt money.
He's clearly brilliant. And what he is doing now is on a different level than building golf courses and hotels.
He's clearly brilliant. And what he is doing now is on a different level than building golf courses and hotels.
This post was edited on 5/31/17 at 2:29 pm
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:31 pm to DabosDynasty
$22/hour sounds pretty good to me. You think trump starts his hotel staff at that rate?
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:32 pm to cahoots
quote:And Zip2's board of directors fired him as CEO of the company. Don't forget that little bit of information....
Dude, Musk built Zip2 with $2000 of his dad's money.
quote:And he was kicked off the management team of PayPal while he was on his honeymoon.
Then Musk invested that into another company that would become PayPal
And don't forget Musk developed the world's first external combustion engine with Tesla.
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:34 pm to LSURussian
For every business failing you could point out in Musk, two could be pointed out for Trump.
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:40 pm to rbWarEagle
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Do you want us to start posting links to Trumps business failings?
Be my guest. I'm under no delusion that he's perfect. My point was that Musk isn't this huge humanitarian and Trump hasn't done anything for people. Employing thousands of people which puts money in their pocket to eat with is something.
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:44 pm to rbWarEagle
quote:If that's the best you can come up with to defend Musk's business failures then you got nothing....
For every business failing you could point out in Musk, two could be pointed out for Trump.
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:46 pm to cahoots
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$22 an hour sounds pretty good to me. You think Trump starts his hotel staff at that rate?
Do you think a doorman and a manufacturing worker deserve the same rate of pay?
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:46 pm to gthog61
quote:and yet he is not more successful than Musk by any stretch
Trump has billionaires in his cabinet more successful
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:49 pm to LSURussian
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And he was kicked off the management team of PayPal while he was on his honeymoon.
And don't forget Musk developed the world's first external combustion engine with Tesla.
Musk wanted to toss unix and go to windows. The board disagreed. Smart people disagree sometimes. He didn't run the company into the ground. There's a difference between business failure and going in a different direction.
This post was edited on 5/31/17 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:50 pm to LSURussian
quote:
And Zip2's board of directors fired him as CEO of the company.
quote:Weird how you think being fired is the relevant datum here and not, say, the % change in valuation before and after his leadership.
And he was kicked off the management team of PayPal while he was on his honeymoon.
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:52 pm to cahoots
Nah dude that means he sucks. It's not like there are any other famous examples of brilliant tech CEOs getting pushed out by their board of directors for stupid reasons.
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:54 pm to Iosh
I'm not even saying that it was stupid reasons. I'm just saying that companies often switch leadership for different reasons. It doesn't mean that the outgoing person is a failure. That's silly.
Posted on 5/31/17 at 2:56 pm to Lou Pai
Well Buub Buub Buub bye......
Posted on 5/31/17 at 3:02 pm to Lou Pai
You mean to tell me the electric car guy doesn't want us to pull out of the Paris deal!?
Posted on 5/31/17 at 3:04 pm to DuncanIdaho
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Somebody has never been in a Tesla, I guess
Go buy one and get back with us after 100,000 miles...if it makes it...without spending another $100,000.
Posted on 5/31/17 at 3:17 pm to Lou Pai
arse / Door, don't hit on way out.
Posted on 5/31/17 at 4:08 pm to Lou Pai
I hear there are one-way flights to Mars.
Posted on 5/31/17 at 4:18 pm to rbWarEagle
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Musk being involved in this presidency was one of the few hopeful aspects of it.
What hope did you see in Musk? What were you hoping he would accomplish?
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