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        Always a good distinction. Ever see presentations from the actual founders of Tesla? They are impressive.

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      What has he created? He bought himself into Twitter and Tesla… and the work is essentially done entirely by other people. i.e his employees

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        Yep. And his pet projects that he personally drives always crash and burn. He’s the one that pushed the autopilot feature hard despite his engineers publicly objecting.

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        what has he created

        One of the best PR campaigns in modern history. Just five years ago people on both sides of the political spectrum were seeing this guy as one of the smartest humans alive, who would actually put man on another planet.

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          Then he got rid of the PR team and started doing his own PR, and it went as well as it always does when Elon has direct control.

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      Elon is slowly but surely tearing down everything he has created bought.

      Fixed that for you

      Every single accomplishment he has involves buying a company that was already doing it, establishing himself as a “founder”, and then taking all the credit.

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        He could have gotten away with it too. I never drank the Kool aid with that guy. I know the charismatic sales tech evangelical type too well. I deal with them daily at work. When they stay in their lane they are fine, they bring in the business.

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      I was about to buy a white Tesla but now I’m not so sure about the Tesla at all, but especially that combination.

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      All he had to do was shut up. He could’ve thought all this stuff, maybe done some of it, and still been hailed as a hero. But the more he opens his mouth, the harder he makes it for anyone to overlook who he really is.

      The lack of self-reflection going on here is so painful to watch.

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      Except that so far he hasn’t faced any real repercussions. He keeps selling cars and internet and getting contracts from NASA. A bunch of banks may have to write off their twitter investments but, much like trump for several decades, it will not significantly impact his ability to get new credit.