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His companies making those achievements is not the same as he personally making those achievements. He does have some talent in being a CEO of a company and inspiring employees and investors.

But also don't oversell that: only Tesla and SpaceX have been successes, and he's had to have them bail out is other failed companies: SolarCity, Twitter, and xAI. The Boring Company also doesn't seem to be particularly successful either, and he never got around to building a company to build Hyperloop in the first place.



The Boring Company is profitable.

> His companies making those achievements is not the same as he personally making those achievements.

Those achievements wouldn't have happened without him.

> He does have some talent in being a CEO of a company and inspiring employees and investors.

SpaceX employees are top shelf engineers and scientists. Being able to do that makes Musk a great CEO. Can you name any other CEO who has been able to do anything like what Musk's companies do?


Steve jobs was not a great engineer.

He was ruthless, manipulative and lacking empathy - like Musk.


And Apple never would have existed without Jobs.

Apple was 90 days from bankruptcy when the Second Coming of Jobs occurred. He took the same company, with the same engineers, from near bankruptcy to $347 billion.

Again, same engineers. 90 days from bankruptcy to $347 billion. Jobs was the magic ingredient - like Musk.


And he wasn't an engineer.




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