This is really off-base with how it describes Musk assuming control of Tesla. Musk would have preferred the original CEOs worked out better but sadly they didn't, Tesla was on a bankruptcy trajectory when he took over and now they're the most profitable and highest volume EV maker of all time.
as you were already told BYD surpassed them, by quite a margin as well, and if you add the other chinese EV maker it's huge, even if you pit all the western EV car makers against the chinese one they are eating our lunch.
On top of that Tesla never reached the scale of any other car maker, those are some of the biggest and most complicated companies and supply chains on the planet.
I used to think we owed him the fact that EV are a thing, I then learned that China was preparing for it for a while, now I'm not so certain if he had the vision that it was possible to overcome the stagnation and resistance of traditional car makers or he just knew the chinese were also working on it.
for sure he saw the promise in reusable rockets, as he saw it with LLMs, a business genius he is, an industrialist I'm not sure.
>Eberhard noted that while he had signed a non-disclosure agreement with Tesla, "so I must, by contract, be a bit careful about how I word things", he was not happy with the transition.
>In June 2009, Eberhard brought a lawsuit against Elon Musk for libel, slander, and breach of contract, alleging that Musk pushed him out of the company, publicly disparaged him, and compromised Tesla's financial health. (wikipedia)
I'd be a bit skeptical of Musk's telling of that one.
Hit piece, if you analysed anyones life, decision etc you could pick them apart. He's a human like the rest of us with same faults just magnified due to his fame and wealth.
Would you say the same if it's a biography of say, Charles Manson? He's just a human as well, like you and me, but the world cares more about all the horrible shit he did.
You can spot that I'm not a fan...
So maybe the book cares more about the thought process behind the destructive shit Elon has done. For one thing, Doge's probably has fatally damaged the USA, and oh yeah, Doge's there because Elon helped Trump get elected. How's your grocery and gas bill this week?
Sam Altman said "Elon desperately wants the world to be saved. But only if he can be the one to save it.". Reading the beginning of this article about his climate fight makes me think maybe Elon's motivation is to gain the world's love to fill that trillion cubic meter gaping hole in his heart...
Has he? I don't think so, if you have clear evidence you should tell the authorities, he should be in prison if he has committed murder as you claim. However falsely accusing someone of a high crime could result in you being charged so tread carefully.
The short answer is that those were conceived during economic boom times before the median American was sold down the river with outsourcing, financialization, and good old fashion corruption. 50 years after this crime was commited against the people, the ideals espoused in those fictions has become hollow and sour.
Star Trek is fiction, a hopeful vision of a far future and not a description of the present. ToS was also dark and verging on a horror series most of the time. The rampant optimism of the 1990's and TnG are NOT found in ToS. The Federation of ToS isn't a utopia or implied to be one, it's just more egalitarian than the present at the time which was defined by generational, racial, and economic fighting. It took place during the context of a war that claimed tens of thousands of American lives, most drafted from the ranks of our youth.
It's very easy to imagine a past defined by fictional narratives and idealized memories of the Cold War. Don't give in to nostalgia, it's a lie.
Neither Star Trek nor the Apollo program were popular at the time. The original Star Trek was cancelled after three seasons with no further content produced until a movie revival a decade later; contemporary polls of the Apollo program consistently showed that most people thought it was a waste of money. If (if) SpaceX and Tesla deliver on Musk's dreams, I expect people in the 2050s will wax nostalgic about the 2020s and complain that we can't summon the same spirit of adventure for the Dyson spheres Claude wants to build.
He lied about the Cybertruck being faster than it is. It's fast anyway. There was no need to lie about it but Musk is pathological. He simply can't help himself:
Star Trek was pretty negative about this period in history.
In that universe, we had the Eugenics War/World War III during this time period. The most depraved and bloody war in Earth’s history that wiped out 1/3 of Earth’s human population and rendered hundreds of thousands of species extinct.
I just looked up - apparently WW III starts in 2026.
>In 2026, at the start of the war, Colonel Phillip Green led a faction of ecoterrorists that was responsible for the loss of thirty-seven million lives.
My memory is the media was pretty negative back then too. You have to filter out the political person A says bad stuff about B shouts at C, unfair to D which is constantly in the news in all time periods and look at the cool things going on instead.
One of the good things about Musk is at least he has cool sounding projects like switching to carbon free transport, reusable rockets, cities on Mars, amazing abundance etc.
It's funny on the surface, but less funny once you understand that it reveals a serious, perhaps fatal personality flaw in one of the most powerful people on Earth.
Deep-seated insecurity, combined with hundreds of billions of dollars in FU money, is a volatile mixture. How can Musk's life story possibly end well?
Having watched the trailer on IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27041231/) it just seems to be a compilation of all the bad stuff about him that's been in the news over the years. I don't think I'm going to watch three hours of that.
In Musk's defense while being flawed he does some cool stuff too.
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[ 0.27 ms ] story [ 12.5 ms ] thread* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elon-musk/id1651876897... * https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/elon-musk-part-2/id165...
I disagree with a few of the claims in the podcast, but overall they are right.
On top of that Tesla never reached the scale of any other car maker, those are some of the biggest and most complicated companies and supply chains on the planet.
I used to think we owed him the fact that EV are a thing, I then learned that China was preparing for it for a while, now I'm not so certain if he had the vision that it was possible to overcome the stagnation and resistance of traditional car makers or he just knew the chinese were also working on it.
for sure he saw the promise in reusable rockets, as he saw it with LLMs, a business genius he is, an industrialist I'm not sure.
Last I checked a few years ago, they were never truly profitable.
It's only bad when it's going to the poor.
Their total volume of vehicles sold is 15% of Toyota’s, and shrinking.
>In June 2009, Eberhard brought a lawsuit against Elon Musk for libel, slander, and breach of contract, alleging that Musk pushed him out of the company, publicly disparaged him, and compromised Tesla's financial health. (wikipedia)
I'd be a bit skeptical of Musk's telling of that one.
You can spot that I'm not a fan...
So maybe the book cares more about the thought process behind the destructive shit Elon has done. For one thing, Doge's probably has fatally damaged the USA, and oh yeah, Doge's there because Elon helped Trump get elected. How's your grocery and gas bill this week?
Sam Altman said "Elon desperately wants the world to be saved. But only if he can be the one to save it.". Reading the beginning of this article about his climate fight makes me think maybe Elon's motivation is to gain the world's love to fill that trillion cubic meter gaping hole in his heart...
He's even tried humor, but as this lady's pointed out: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/it-soo...
should he hold all the power he does? no, he's unhinged.
It's very easy to imagine a past defined by fictional narratives and idealized memories of the Cold War. Don't give in to nostalgia, it's a lie.
Musk lies constantly. He lies about stupid things there's no need to lie about like being better at video games than he actually is: https://futurism.com/gamers-disgusted-musk-cheats-diablo-pat...
He lied about the Cybertruck being faster than it is. It's fast anyway. There was no need to lie about it but Musk is pathological. He simply can't help himself:
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-cybertruck-beast-vs...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3H8--CQRE
Tesla never ran the quarter mile they claimed they did. It's pathetic.
In that universe, we had the Eugenics War/World War III during this time period. The most depraved and bloody war in Earth’s history that wiped out 1/3 of Earth’s human population and rendered hundreds of thousands of species extinct.
>In 2026, at the start of the war, Colonel Phillip Green led a faction of ecoterrorists that was responsible for the loss of thirty-seven million lives.
Have to keep an eye out for that one.
One of the good things about Musk is at least he has cool sounding projects like switching to carbon free transport, reusable rockets, cities on Mars, amazing abundance etc.
Or the implicating Trump in the Epstein files and the going back to groveling at his feet
Or the hiring someone to play video games for him.
No, his personality cult does not care because they admire him for being able to be a malignancy while suffering no consequences.
Deep-seated insecurity, combined with hundreds of billions of dollars in FU money, is a volatile mixture. How can Musk's life story possibly end well?
Right?
In Musk's defense while being flawed he does some cool stuff too.
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