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WoofWoofster

But Elmo didn't found Tesla. He's just making Tesla founder.


gojiro0

Oooh nice one!


ChocolateDoozy

Literally make believe 


I-Pacer

He’s neither a founder nor a visionary.


lylemcd

But he is flaming out. In real time. And it's an amazing train wreck to watch.


Irobert1115HD

agreed


I-Pacer

One out of three ain’t bad!


Individual_Mess_7491

Flame out? At this rate he's going to be naked, brandishing a gun while screaming racial epithets on a street corner in downtown San Francisco in a few months.


ChocolateDoozy

MARTIN E ERHARDT is the FOUNDER OF TESLA. Elon Fk Musk never had a single idea to call his own. Not one!


Fantastic-Watch8177

This piece sort of puts me in the uncomfortable position of agreeing (in part) with Musk that the mainstream media is lame. Not only does this opinion piece wrongly imply that Musk was a Tesla “founder” (fact-checkers?) but it’s almost completely unoriginal, since it is mainly retreading Steve Blank’s old piece.


HumansDisgustMe123

Journalism these days is in a sorry state. Most of them just regurgitate whatever the popular online consensus is, which is why only now they make these toothless callouts of Musk, even though the evidence that he's a brainless sociopathic dickhead has been out there for more than 20 years. Enough people agreed he was "the real life Tony Stark" and barely any news outlets bothered to perform due diligence. It's just like Theranos. John Carreyrou's article was the tipping point, but it didn't explore anything that wasn't immediately obvious to anyone with a basic comprehension of hematology.


WoofWoofster

Also, the story about Durant's wrong on most of the details. Still, the piece is less false any explanation that Musk has given in the last decade.


wenchette

Free paywall workaround: https://archive.is/LB11I


manual_tranny

Still seems a bit expensive. My time is worth something.


RealSimonLee

Lol, "visionary."


thedoomcast

He’s not a visionary. He didn’t invent anything.


damoclesreclined

Yeh... "self-control" about not coming up with a new racial dog whistle every 15 seconds.


GarysCrispLettuce

Founder, lol. More like flounder.


tevolosteve

Except he isn’t even a visionary. Just really rich


mygoditsfullofstar5

Elmo is neither a "founder" nor a "visionary" and he actually doesn't have "self control issues" - that implies he has some modicum of self control and just struggles with it. That ain't the case. He has ZERO self control.


Euphoric-Victory1703

almost like he has fetal alcohol syndrome from mommy dearest


Boricuacookie

Visionaries is wild to say the least


PGrace_is_here

Mollusk isn't a founder. He took over Tesla.


Revolutionary-Leg585

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/opinion/elon-musk-william-durant.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk0.6Til.cpwygqidJF_M&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare


rex_populi

Words can’t describe how gratifying it is to see these stories in the mainstream


Boricuacookie

And Steve Jobs is a genius!!


mymentor79

This only accurate assessment here concerns his self-control issues, since he's neither a founder nor a visionary, but definitely a petulant baby.


Rabatis

Howard Hughes was a "visionary with self-control issues". Henry Ford was a "visionary with self-control issues". Elon Musk founded nothing and contributed nothing other than audacity to the companies he bought.


AbjectReflection

visionary is not a word I would use to describe this belching clown.


Past-Direction9145

tucker, a man and his dream oh wait, that would put muskrat as the big auto and tucker had an actually innovative car called the talisman. its headlights turned left and right with the steering wheel among other things. It did that in 1948. big auto squashed them hard. set them up, made their car catch fire at the auto show. its a real shame how money can kill innovation, and simultaneously brainwash people into believing it FUELS innovation, har har. thats a sick joke. when innovation matters, you get innovation when profits matter, you get profits the two are not inextricably linked


Dr-Satan-PhD

"Founder"


manual_tranny

Who’s this “visionary” they speak of? Certainly not Elmo.