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kcbyesterday at 10:11 PM3 repliesview on HN

Elon Musk has been failing any minute now since like what? 2015


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HarHarVeryFunnyyesterday at 10:47 PM

I didn't say he's failing at everything - SpaceX certainly seems a huge success. Telsa had been doing well, although sales are now declining fast, and the Cybertruck has been a failure. He massively overpaid for Twitter, ruined the site, then got X.ai to bail him out. X.ai seems like a failure - evidentially not enough demand to utilize the data center he built for it, and when have you seen anyone say they use Grok for anything ?

And now SpaceX investors are going to be left as the bag holders for X.ai/Twitter.

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AntiUSAbahtoday at 6:54 AM

Yeah his luck is annoying. But he stoped having any character and ethics. He literaly was with his Tesla in front of the White House and bought himself a seat next to a Clown.

But he also plays in areas were market disruption can't be done by many people at all.

But look Tesla: He did the cybertruck debakel. He tanked Tesla as a brand, he is burning money on xAI and Twitter, he destroyed a beloved brand Twitter. He did the boring company garbage.

The only thing this shows is some kind of masterclass between manipulation, public ignorance, luck, economy of high invest high risk and risk adverse industries.

Starlink doesn't scale very well which is a low margin business, especially when Amazon and the others are joining the club.

xAI is just a loss.

Twitter probably still a loss.

Tesla made a lot of money with co2 certificates. And a market were people were quite ignorant for a long.

Space-X he wants to push that to the death, without a real endplan. He now talks about Mars and Datacenter in space like there is any real business up their.

blueaquilaeyesterday at 10:42 PM

If only those people listened to your guidance!