“CEO said a thing!” journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
“CEO said a thing!” journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.
He’s an idiot whose only skill is using his frankly disgusting access to money and power to steal ideas from actual geniuses and calling them his own.
When he first became famous, I thought he might be smart. Then he started talking about things in my field of expertise and I realised he had no idea what he was talking about. Since then, I’ve heard engineers and designers in other fields say the same thing.
I’m actually angry he gets away with this. I’ve struggled to make ends meet, and I have high level skills – it’s infuriating that a moron can make bank in my field by pretending and being a fucking sociopath.
e: my passion overrides my ability to spell
To be fair, he has some things going for him: the uncanny ability to get away with false advertising and stock manipulation.
Somehow, “{Super far-fetched thing} will be available NEXT YEAR!” manages to keep working despite the clear history of his promises being even more overhyped and overpromised than even Peter Mollineaux’s.
I mean the man is 5 or 6 distilled PowerPoints away from the people who actually know something. This coupled with the fact that he is clearly seagull management personified I’m gob smacked the (shitty) iron man image continues.
He’s likely paying for this PR fluff to be written.
I watched a video some time ago where he was showing the evolution of SpaceX rockets. At one point he referred to “the fiddly bits” on the outsides of the rockets.
“Actual geniuses,” my ass! Musk steals his ideas from decades-old issues of Popular Science. Electric cars? Spaceships? Hyperloops? That’s like the to-do list of every geeky 12-year-old!
Even your disparagement gives that piece of shit more credit than he deserves. I can’t really blame you, though: it is genuinely difficult to find words emphatic enough to express how unexceptional and unworthy of accolade he really is.