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@cstross @SvenGeier I’m not a Musk fanboy (not by a longshot) but for whatever reason he did manage to make both Tesla and SpaceX into multi-billion dollar businesses which completely transformed their industries.
This required more than just luck.
I think that's a valid point. Obviously there could be a million reasons, but one could be that for those two particular missions, having a leader who's willing to play chicken with the entire organization to realize science fiction may have been beneficial. Or perhaps he was more sensible 10 year ago.
PayPal Money: Right place right time. And then rolled that into other enterprises.
I can't speak to SpaceX, but at least in the case of Tesla, he bought an existing company that had already built a stellar team and ensured it had enough capital to take their product into production. (The title of "founder" was just part of the purchase agreement.)
If you start the game ahead, it's easy to compound your winnings.
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Force of will. Notable.
It isn't the same as competence.
Nobody was I think really trying to stop him.
(Compete, yes, stop, destroy, no)
He was involved in establishing two transportation systems - generating devices, fueling them, maintaining (reusing!) them.
If he brought anything to anything in government, he might drive a department of transport.
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