I think Jeff Bezos is the most talented CEO currently around. He is the rare CEO that has off the charts vision combined with off the charts ability to execute. I am glad he is invested in space travel.
And even truly failing there would be irrelevant. Spruce Goose flew once, yet Hughes isn't a failure. Goddard developed his engines alone and didn't get too far - after initial successes, but he's not a failure at all. You just have to push enough to get high grades - possibly even once, after which you have that "mark". Not too many know what Max Plank did beside quantum hypotheses, but his name is on scientific centers.
No doubt he has vision and the ability to execute. I’m a huge fan. We wouldn’t have electric cars on the road, wouldn’t have AI-assisted driver tech for consumers and would be paying Russians to launch satellites for us if it weren’t for him. He also makes bold statements and doesn’t always deliver on time. Bezos tends to keep things closer to the vest. Both have changed the world. The perception that Bezos doesn’t often over-promise and under-deliver or at least deliver late after talking big is probably why some people see him as a more competent CEO.
Self-driving cars have been worked on since the early 90s. Like pretty much everything in the machine learning space, it’s advances in GPUs and the hardware that has made any of this possible. Other than making wild, undeliverable promises, Musk has not had a lot to do with it. It’s not Tesla that seeded the valley with self-driving, it’s Google and Google themselves was seeded by DARPA and CMU.
Well, I specifically mentioned self driving availability for consumers. No one else is doing that now. The rest kind of supports the point I was trying to make. He’s a polarizing guy. I don’t think it’s fair to completely dismiss him as a bullshit artist like some people do, but I get why they’re put off by his overly optimistic promises.
I’m still impressed. As a Tesla owner, I find the car to be nothing short of incredible despite its flaws. It feels like it’s from the future. And the Falcon Heavy launch left me in awe. I grew up watching the shuttle launches on TV and they were cool, but I was amazed by the Falcon Heavy launch like never before. Say what you will about Musk and how he doesn’t have much to do with anything, but the reality is he’s the CEO who had the vision and somehow assembled the people who got it done.
That said, if I had the choice of Musk or Bezos to be CEO of my dream company I’m picking Bezos every time.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 53.6 ms ] threadThe guy who failed at Neuralink and the Boring Company?
Might have to add Tesla to the above sentence, depending on if they run out of cash this year or not.
What's this obsession with people seeing some failures and using them to sum up a person? Many of the greatest also failed at times...
I’m still impressed. As a Tesla owner, I find the car to be nothing short of incredible despite its flaws. It feels like it’s from the future. And the Falcon Heavy launch left me in awe. I grew up watching the shuttle launches on TV and they were cool, but I was amazed by the Falcon Heavy launch like never before. Say what you will about Musk and how he doesn’t have much to do with anything, but the reality is he’s the CEO who had the vision and somehow assembled the people who got it done.
That said, if I had the choice of Musk or Bezos to be CEO of my dream company I’m picking Bezos every time.
Good, we can be rid of him down here.