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Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his ā€œfanboysā€ who have attempted to use the billionaireā€™s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    18Ā·
    12 hours ago

    SpaceX was the leading private space company before he acquired it - it has actually lost ground to competitors since then but has an extremely passionate team behind it.

    Tesla was the first company to seriously take a swing at automated response with an eye to FSD - theyā€™ve since fallen far behind Waymo and other competitors.

    When Musk worked at PayPal Thiel described him as a crazy risk taker and had him ousted as CEO while he was on two weeks of PTO for his honeymoon.

    Musk is a huge fucking dumbass with enough money to fail horribly over and over.

    • robbinhood@lemmy.world
      16Ā·
      11 hours ago

      youā€™re not getting into UPENN being a complete idiot. Whoever started the company, Musk oversaw periods of the growth in SpaceX, Tesla, Paypal etc.

      Musk is (edit: not) the smartest person in the world like he thinks he is. But itā€™s nearly an objective fact that heā€™s not stupid.

      This is such a dumb hill to die on, and more importantly it benefits Musk.

      edit: and as for failed programs, welcome to the world of business. Google, Amazon, Microsoft Apple, etc. constantly launch ideas that donā€™t pan out. Are their leaders and engineers and everyone else dumb because a project failed?

      • throwback3090@lemmy.nzEnglish
        5Ā·
        10 hours ago

        You are getting into UPenn if your daddy owns an emerald mine and has pseudoslaves to work in it.

        And yes there are a lot a looooottttt of dumb people at google, amazon, Microsoft, and apple.

        • robbinhood@lemmy.world
          1Ā·
          9 hours ago

          Evidence he bought his way in?

          Sure, there are a lot of dumb people at those companies. But thatā€™s not the point. Failures donā€™t prove that the leadership or specific individuals are dumb. Plenty of smart people have failed.

          But have fun inadvertently supporting Musk!

      • Seleni@lemmy.world
        6Ā·
        11 hours ago

        And everyone there said it was because they had a dedicated team distracting Musk from the real work. He is, in fact, very dumb.