MerluTesla’s massive 71% profit loss pushes Elon Musk to limit government work with DOGE
The engineers at Tesla have built some amazing stuff, but the CEO who drove them forward for so long has been holding them back for a while now. Time for Musk to go.
SpookyghostHe never drove forward shit.
Eh, I know nuanced viewpoints around billionaires aren’t appreciated on the corporate web, let alone the fediverse, but I really don’t think it’s as simple as that. Why did Tesla succeed where other EV companies failed or floundered? And why did Tesla, the company behind the ultra-desirable Model S and its peers, produce the unsellable Cybertruck and fire the entire Supercharger team?
CEOs set the direction and drive the company to deliver on that. And Musk has lost it - from 95% genius and 5% mad to 95% and 5% genius. I honestly feel sorry for him in many ways - which I fully appreciate is a lot easier to say as a non-American right now! He will probably never again know true love or be considered an inspiration to the smart people he seems drawn to. He’s thrown his lot in with a bunch of bastards who would gladly tear down everything he’s built up. I am 100% confident that I will live a happier and more fulfilling life than him, as poor and stressed as I am. Poor sod.
As the edgelord he is, I hope he’ll appreciate his inevitable future epitaph: “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
from 95% genius and 5% mad to 95% and 5% genius
Lol that’s not nuance, that’s just fantasy.
There was no 95% genius, he was just a salesman convincing investors that the product line he bought out was going gangbusters. He was right, but he didn’t design the things, he just sold them.
Tesla succeeded because it was founded by and operated by talented people. Tesla is failing because it was acquired by and increasingly controlled by an idiotic narcissist who can’t handle being told “no.”
“Full self driving next year! No? Next year then! No lidar, only cameras! “Crunch” style development! Bulletproof glass! Vegas hyperloop! Stainless steel! Micrometer tolerances!” Everything Tesla did on its own was pretty solid. Everything Musk contributed to design and process was complete and utter shit.