• HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
      252·
      18 days ago

      Yeah iirc, he boasted a bit about that and there’s alot of engineers that responded to various comments about design oversights saying most of it was musks design, it was designed how he wanted it the way he wanted it, agianst the advice of engineers. They saw some these problems miles away but that car specifically was musks baby, his personal magnum opus, his personal design.

      Probably a reason them being vandalized hirts him even more, not only is he an arrogant petulant child, that really is “his” creation. Treats it more like his kid then any of his children which “died” to wokeness.

    • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
      11·
      18 days ago

      On an video done by common sense skeptic, he mentions that Teslas business plan was layed out by the original founders up until the launch of cybertruck. Indicating that Musks only major contribution was indeed the Cybertruck. He also has a couple of patents, one for the shape of the charger socket and the other one I can’t recall.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    53·
    18 days ago

    never designed anything

    i am convinced that he at least had a lot of say in the design of cybertruck. the sheer amount of design flaws on that thing is just too many to believe it was made by actual engineers without any input from a barely literate troglodyte.

  • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
    50·
    18 days ago

    I remember some article about SpaceX a while ago, where an engineer says that the work day grinds to a halt whenever Musk arrives at the factory because he wants them to work in a very specific way that isn’t actually conducive to being a rocket manufacturer, but which he thinks is how rocket manufacturers operate.

  • Peppycito
    27·
    18 days ago

    I would argue Gwen Shotwell is to blame for spacex’s success. Tom Muller made the engine, which is no mean feat, but Gwen built the company.

  • FringeTheory999@lemmy.world
    22·
    17 days ago

    The other day I was talking about musk to my GF, Me: “Musk is such a poser, he buys successful gaming accounts and pretends to be a top gamer by claiming those achievements as his own” GF: “Well, yeah, that tracks. Isn’t that what he does with his companies?”.

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
    18·
    17 days ago

    I’m sure he drew the first Cybertruck design, because no competent car designer would come up with an ugly monstrosity like that.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      17 days ago

      The old school MS-DOS gaming groups on Facebook all mocked it on how it looked like it was an early 90s PC racing game car rendered in real life. Plenty of other 90s gamers also made similar claims about how it resembled clunky primitive 3D graphics of the era.

  • caboose2006@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    17 days ago

    Elon musk has a few patents. Nothing revolutionary and some not even related to his current venture. But his companies successes come down to his ability to promise completely unachievable goals.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      17 days ago

      This is exactly how Trump built himself up. As early as the 1970s when Trump was just starting to do his own ventures New York newspapers and editorials would jeer at him for being the biggest damn blowhard they ever saw. Someone who would promise the world and deliver nothing.

      Yet this attitude worked… he managed to built a brand around himself as the successful businessman who, ironically, had no businesses successes. By the late 80s he was actively mocked by so much media it wasn’t funny. Everything from sesame street to the 87 TMNT cartoon to the infamous Back to the Future 2 portrayal. It didn’t stop there. It continued into the 90s with the villain in the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie being heavily based on Trump, as well as the villain in the 1994 movie Time Cop.

      Everyone from playboy to a ton of other magazines. Despite all this he STILL managed to somehow maintain that image, and while it waned, the Apprentice somehow convinced people again that he was a business genius when he was the farthest thing from it.

      He was not in isolation, of course. The libertarian movement had been growing and the idea that the US did not need a politician, but a businessman, as a president and that it needs to be run like a business and not a country had been building momentum for decades before his entry into politics.

      If that movement didn’t exist Trump would still be a failed businessman and probably have been thrown in prison a long time ago.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    11·
    18 days ago

    That’s because xelon is a nothing, and has always been a nothing. Money does not make you something. All republicans/conservatives are just the uncool kids that will never be cool. They don’t understand what “cool” actually is. And when they try to be “cool”, it’s just cringe, cringe, cringe!!!

  • ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world
    121·
    18 days ago

    Can someone provide sources for the information? I’m not doubting it, just that relying solely on information from a meme without references is generally a bad idea

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    17 days ago

    Of all the things that came from PayPal, musk and thiel being one of the worst things