• Tedesche
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      251 year ago

      That’s because he’s not and never was a businessman. He’s a tech guy who got super lucky and became filthy rich. Musk builds and designs shit, he doesn’t know squat about running a company. He should stick to playing with his rockets and making new roadsters. This whole CEO foray has turned out real bad.

      • @orclev@lemmy.world
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        He’s not even a tech guy. He inherited his money, and then lucked into a couple jobs with actual tech guys that he could take the credit for. His entire career has been built around buying other tech companies that were just taking off, pushing the original founders out, and then taking credit for everything everyone else did.

        • Nougat
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          141 year ago

          … lucked into a couple jobs …

          Strongarmed his way into other people’s success, then slapped his name on it and claimed it as his own.

        • What’s crazy is that he had fooled a lot of people into thinking he was a tech guy with a very carefully crafted image, but he threw it all away to help the alt right

    • ZeroCoolOP
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      151 year ago

      As surprising as it may sound, most billionaires do not arrive there through competence. They get there by way of inheritance and privilege.

            • @really@lemmy.world
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              Lucky timing is: being a white guy growing up in the 70s/80s America.

              Besides that, if you look at the company he started. It started selling books, but he always wanted to sell other stuff. His shareholder letters describe his vision from the very first one and it is consistent. It didn’t change over time. They company got lucky, they talk about prime being a fluke all the time. But on the other hand, the culture in the company was something that supported a fluke like that to bubble up through the idea pond.

              Any who, yea. I don’t care for the person that the media portrays him as today. But for his initial years I absolutely give him a lot of credit.

              I haven’t heard off Amazon being built on stolen ideas or usurping someone else’s company or being born with a silver spoon.

              Yes he was a white male in America in the 70s and has all the privilege associated with that, but there were like another 50 million in that category.

              • BarqsHasBite
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                It’s more about launching a company right when internet purchases took off. People tried before, but the timing wasn’t right. He had the right skill set, at the right time, and it took off.