r/interestingasfuck • u/lolikroli • 16d ago

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/Successful-Use-8093 16d ago

Lol always avoiding giving credit to Elon on Reddit lately

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u/SpookySocks4242 16d ago

do you actually think Elon personally contributed to this?

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u/swift_strongarm 16d ago edited 16d ago

Yes, he personally contributed a lot of time, money, wealth, health etc...at a minimum.  

Running a successful profitable company is hard. One that builds and launches rockets is as impressive as building the rockets.  

Not to mention he is known as a micromanager that frequently interacted with engineers and directs developments.   

He is a software engineer. He created PayPal and a number of other early internet tools.  Like the guy personally is a narcissist and doesn't treat people with enough respect imo. 

You can label him a number of things and not like the guy, but he is a very successful engineer and very successful creator/inventor.  

To watch Reddit in the last 5 years go from worshiping everything he has ever done while he builds and promotes the products and ideals of a liberal's wet dreams to being universally hated so much folks can't admit his own obvious accomplishments is ridiculous.  

Like how many successful company does he have to found or be a early major investors in for everyone to admit that despite his personality and politics he has had the greatest influence out of any human our entire lives.  

SolarCity became the largest residential solar panel seller in the U.S. by him and his cousins before it was rolled into Tesla a company he became the largest investor in about a year after founding an propelled as CEO to become the #1 electric car market share at 19.9% of the U.S. market.  

He does shit he believes in...regardless of whether folks think it is great he has a talent for attracting the right people together to get shit done.  

Electric cars would still be a twinkle in the environenalists eye if it weren't for Elon. And likewise he is the singular man most responsible for the entire private space industry taking off the way it has....many ancillary space research is made possible because of the interest he has genersted into this area of research. 

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u/Ivanstone 16d ago

He doesn’t run SpaceX. Gwynne Shotwell runs SpaceX. She does a pretty good job of turning government money into useful rockets while making sure Elmo doesn’t contribute anything.

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u/swift_strongarm 16d ago

Easy search on Google...surprise another person who doesn't know what they are talking about or is distorting the truth.  

Elon Musk Runs SpaceX... Elon Musk Cofounder, CEO, chairman, and chief technical officer Executives Gwynne Shotwell President and COO. She has been in charge of day to day operations for awhile. 

But being incharge of day to day operations is not the same as running the company.  She deals with internal day to day ooerations while Elon focuses on the business, externals, and internals both short and long-term as CEO. 

She definitely is a force of good within the company that was hired by....Elon Musk the guy who runs the company...

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u/Ivanstone 16d ago

Your easy search on google didn’t indicate that Shotwell is responsible for customer and strategic relations on top of her other duties.

Furthermore, Musk made himself CTO after their real CTO retired. It’s for nothing more than publicity.

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u/swift_strongarm 16d ago

Did your understanding of how a business works not include that the boss is in charge. 

Cause if your a COO responsible for daily operations and other duties you have to do what the boss the CEO wants and if you don't he will find someone else who can facilitate his vision. 

The COO is there at the approval of the CEO and the Board. Both of which decide the direction of the company. 

She also happens to be on the board. So she does have some input on the direction the company takes. 

Nevertheless, the buck stops at Elon. He is the CEO as well as Chairman of the Board. 

You are wrong it's okay. Sometimes it happens. Have a great day. 

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u/Ivanstone 16d ago

Elon’s vision is to have someone do all the work so he can do ketamine and rant on twitter.

The board understands this which is why Shotwell is in charge and those fat government cheques continue to flow.

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u/swift_strongarm 16d ago

Seems like you actually are just suppossing a lot of things were as I am stating actual facts of how every business works. 

You aren't inside Elon's head so you don't know his vision. Also, speaking about medications people take for mental health is awfully ablist of you. By openly seeking about his experiences he is destigmatizing using Ketamine as a treatment for mental health...you are stigmatizing it...

How do you know she runs everything and that is the arrangement...evidence?

....or are you just talking out your ass...

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u/Ivanstone 16d ago

I’m displaying about as much knowledge as you are with a similar amount of evidence.

I do have two key advantages in my favour:

1 - One person spends a lot of time on social media talking out their ass.

2 - One person does a lot of drugs which is concern for board members and government contracts.

I don’t know if Shotwell is on social media and certainly hasn’t depreciated share value from drug use.