Elon Musk

He is a bit of a loon but some people are blindly throwing money at his projects, no doubt convinced he is the next Steve Jobs. He isn't, Jobs' products were massive hits from the start while Musk's are struggling or they don't yet exist:

SpaceX - regular failures (one yesterday)
Tesla - in the red since its inception
Hyperloop - concept phase
SolarCity - in the red until he bought it from himself :P

The dreams he has been selling have not materialized yet and I doubt they ever will.
 
Diddums said:
You made the points. Back them up.
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Lets see, Jobs' first 2 products were Apple I and II which are historic pieces of hardware and among the most important elements of the PC revolution. Apple 2 sold 6 million units in a few years, with huge profits. Tesla has been around for 13 years during which it sold less than 100k cars and last year it lost close to 1b dollars.

Shall I go on? SolarCity, loss making company recently bought by Tesla (who else lol) for 2.6b vs Pixar, profit making company bought for 7.6b 10 years ago by Disney.

Iphone vs Hyperloop? :D
 
He is definitely a supervillian in the making, he's got the name, the piles of cash, the grand projects and there's just something about him.

He's probably working on a machine to harvest the worlds supply of oxygen so he can sell it back to us or something. If he doesn't build a secret lair in a hollowed out volcano I'll be very disappointed
 
When I see the name "Elon Musk" it reminds me of aftershave. :confused:

I dunno some people have far too much money these days.
 
Zethor said:
He is a bit of a loon but some people are blindly throwing money at his projects, no doubt convinced he is the next Steve Jobs. He isn't, Jobs' products were massive hits from the start while Musk's are struggling or they don't yet exist:

SpaceX - regular failures (one yesterday)
Tesla - in the red since its inception
Hyperloop - concept phase
SolarCity - in the red until he bought it from himself :P

The dreams he has been selling have not materialized yet and I doubt they ever will.
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Jobs wasn't all success...

Bought Pixar for the hardware and tried to sell it multiple times just trying to break even on the deal when the hardware side didn't work out. No one else was prepared to buy it at that point.

Apple TV, Apple Lisa, Apple III, G4 Cube, iPod HiFi, MobileMe,

Lets not even mention NeXT.

Also, not much of what he was involved in had the potential to put a small but still significanty sized hole in the planet like the SpaceX rockets.

For me, Elon is pushing the boundaries of whats possible more than Jobs ever did.
 
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Zethor said:
Lets see, Jobs' first 2 products were Apple I and II which are historic pieces of hardware and among the most important elements of the PC revolution. Apple 2 sold 6 million units in a few years, with huge profits. Tesla has been around for 13 years during which it sold less than 100k cars and last year it lost close to 1b dollars.

Shall I go on? SolarCity, loss making company recently bought by Tesla (who else lol) for 2.6b vs Pixar, profit making company bought for 7.6b 10 years ago by Disney.

Iphone vs Hyperloop? :D
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You're comparing apples with oranges. Jobs didn't create a single thing from scratch.

Of course big projects are in the red. Ideas don't just magically appear from the drawing board without expenditure.

As for SpaceX - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_accidents_and_incidents I stopped counting at 40 incidents.

I guess you think Paypal was a huge failure then? :p
 
How can you call SpaceX a failure just because they've had some errors? The fact they successfully managed to launch and reclaim a rocket is mindblowing in itself.
 
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