Elon Musk blames remote workers for Tesla’s struggling car sales::Tesla reported weaker-than-expected earnings Oct. 18.

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    1 year ago

    So sad that Space-X, which has done such incredible things to advance spaceflight, is run by this idiot. It’s a testament to the intelligence and hard work of the engineers and scientists working there, despite him, I suppose.

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      1 year ago

      He’s not even there, ever since he bought Twitter he’s been camping there coming up with new ways to bankrupt the platform.

      I’d guess he never actually did anything in Space X except for publicity stunts.

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        1 year ago

        I can’t imagine how happy the people at SpaceX were when he got into the whole Twitter mud pile. There’s nothing worse for a company than a stupid CEO who way overestimates his own capability and constantly micromanages shit that a CEO shouldn’t even care about.

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          1 year ago

          I vaguely remember reading an article where the gist of if was “musk is busy with other businesses, SpaceX engineers can work unhindered by stupid questions and requirements” and their source was someone who works for SpaceX.

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          1 year ago

          I can imagine!

          I had this lousy useless roomie that just brought down the atmosphere and didn’t really contribute anything positive to the household. When he announced that he was leaving we were initially angry that he didn’t give us more notice, and when he ended up leaving even earlier than anticipated, we legit started jumping for joy the moment he stepped out.

          I gather the people at SpaceX felt something like that.

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          1 year ago

          The best CEOs are the ones you hear the least from, it means they are doing their job instead of micromanaging everyone under them.

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        1 year ago

        That would be some interesting observation to be done. Imagine statistic showing whenever he leaves for another company, income of the previous jumps.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A big part of a start up CEO’s job is just raising money and talking to media. SpaceX still (usually) loses money to grow like a start up even if it’s obviously a massive operation. I would think that’s his primary role there.

      Basically, all evidence points to him knowing rich people, not rocket science. (Or truck science or social media or monkey torture.)