The Model Y (the best-selling vehicle on earth across all fuel types)
Reusabile falcon 9,
Grid-Scale Battery Deployments,
Americas charging infra,
Mechazilla,
Starlink,
SpaceX have launched more rockets than NASA, ESA, Russia, China, and every other organisation in the world ever, combined. They offer super fast internet almost anywhere on the globe through Starlink.
The Model Y has been the best selling car in the world for the past 3 years, partly due to the fact that it has by far the best self-driving.
Xai built the largest AI training cluster in the world in 4 months, then doubled it in 3 months.
All of this would be impressive for one person to do. He is doing all of this at the same time. He is by far the greatest founder of his generation and it's not even close. Everyone who says otherwise is out of touch with reality and should not be trusted.
You are correct. He is the greatest founder of all time. That much is true.
He is also a prolific liar. He massively exaggerates his technical contributions. He uses his wealth to persecute his perceived ideological enemies. Quite a few of his failures are outright fraud. He's also racist as f**.
I give him credit for having backed some winners, some of which were not at all obvious. But in many ways he has also been lucky rather than smart -- most notably Paypal, which is the one that made him rich. He has had massive failures that would have let him out of being able to make any more investments, were it not for the fact that he had made one massive fortune already.
We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes. And Elon Musk is basically a human Ponzi scheme.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 15.0 ms ] threadThe Model Y has been the best selling car in the world for the past 3 years, partly due to the fact that it has by far the best self-driving.
Xai built the largest AI training cluster in the world in 4 months, then doubled it in 3 months.
All of this would be impressive for one person to do. He is doing all of this at the same time. He is by far the greatest founder of his generation and it's not even close. Everyone who says otherwise is out of touch with reality and should not be trusted.
He is also a prolific liar. He massively exaggerates his technical contributions. He uses his wealth to persecute his perceived ideological enemies. Quite a few of his failures are outright fraud. He's also racist as f**.
I give him credit for having backed some winners, some of which were not at all obvious. But in many ways he has also been lucky rather than smart -- most notably Paypal, which is the one that made him rich. He has had massive failures that would have let him out of being able to make any more investments, were it not for the fact that he had made one massive fortune already.
the actual article: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/elon-musk-human-ponzi-sch...
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We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They’re called Ponzi schemes. And Elon Musk is basically a human Ponzi scheme.