Elon Musk - Genius

[SirGalahad]

Elon Musk publicly ridiculed a disabled employee for asking about the status of his employment. The employee had sold his company to Twitter for ~$50-100 million, and the deal was structured in a way which requires payment for the entire deal upon his termination.

The employee chose to be paid this sum as wages and not as is usual in these cases as stock or some other financial instrument so you can pay less tax as capital gains. The employee said he had gladly paid the higher rate of tax as he had benefited from the Icelandic social system.

 

[blup]

Why sell a company that will be stripped of human and other resources to squeeze a profit. Is there a little bit of virtue signalling going on.

Blup

 

[IT Minion]

Why sell a company that will be stripped of human and other resources to squeeze a profit. Is there a little bit of virtue signalling going on.

Blup

Back then twitter wasn't in the burn-then-pillage phase. And virtue signalling is a ****ty term used to make people doing the right thing seem to be deceitful.

 

[blup]

Not a fan of musky

Blup

 

[carmanmemoranda]

I think he is a classic case of more money than sense

 

[IT Minion]

Not a fan of musky

Blup

His willingness to be an arse, money and complete self confidence can be very powerful. SpaceX is an epic achievement.

But his successes have mostly been finding brilliant people, giving them a mission, driving them hard and managing the money.

I think he's mistaken his ability to hire brilliant people for brilliance of his own.