Also remember that Musk didn't start any of these companies. He merely invested enough to become the face of the company. He's only really ever started X.com, but that code was thrown out when he merged with Peter Thiel's company.

[–] AshDene@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is just completely untrue. Musk founded SpaceX from nothing, there was no prior entity he acquired or invested in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX

There are lots of legitimate reasons to dislike Musk, there's really no need to make up lies about him to justify having an extremely low opinion of him.

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

He bought his way into the Mars Society and then was introduced to a whole bunch of people with real experience. Yes, he "created" SpaceX, but he did it the same way he does everything else...by throwing gobs of money at something that already exists and then having actual smart people figure out the hard stuff.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 5 points 1 year ago

I guess they did well despite him. People who can send rockets to space probably also know how to deal with rich idiots.

[–] FixedFun@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Money

[–] Calcharger@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe they should have done a little industry research to see if this was a good idea.

Oh well, Elon Musk Genius, Dogecoin dogecoin dogecoin, monkey art

[–] beto@lemmy.studio 2 points 1 year ago

They did, many years ago with the PayPal merge. Musk wanted x.com, all the research said people saw it negatively, and Musk still pushed for it, until eventually he was ousted as CEO.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

What's also weird is that Twitter does in fact contain a lot of porn. When Tumblr banned porn, Twitter was one of the top choices that people were recommending.

[–] Designate6361@lemmy.letthewookiee.win 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing of value was lost.

[–] Bonzo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember to downvote the post. I’m tired of twatter and muskrat too.

[–] Designate6361@lemmy.letthewookiee.win 4 points 1 year ago

Not going to downvote something cause i don't like it ...

[–] twitterfluechtling@lemmy.pathoris.de 5 points 1 year ago

Since it's not Twitter anymore, we should replace "tweeting" by "Xcreting". (It's not mine, saw it on Reddit, but I think the idea deserves more exposure!)

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be fair this is not Musks fault, this is Indonesia being Indonesia.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are extremely charitable my friend but Indonesia is not going to stop being Indonesia for Elon, so yes this is Musk's strategic error. You don't abrubtly change your entire multibillion dollar brand without doing some due diligence on the implications it will have. Or maybe he truly is deranged enough to believe he doesn't need customers in 4th most populous country to run a successful social media site.