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Running a company doesn't necessarily indicate you are good at it. I don't need to be a pilot to understand that diving into the ground is a fatal idea.
Indeed, SpaceX was indeed almost bankrupt. It only succeeded because the last attempt to launch and land a reusable rocket got them a massive cash injection from NASA. But if that launch had failed like the ones before it, that would have been the end of SpaceX.
It's almost like a ceo is only as good as the product and the people they surround themselves with.
Twitter could never be a profitable business, the numbers don't work. No one with visionary talent wants to associate themselves with Musk's right wing tweets.
Musk isn't a genius, he's a person who started with money and made much more money on a few things that went right and many more that didnt.
Just to note, this isn’t a quote from the article’s author, but Paul Graham in late 2022.
Just to add to that, They also quote Paul Graham from 3 days ago:
Surely! If only Elon could find a person like that