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gsgrego said:

What did the moron create?

Please point to something that he designed, engineered, or programmed on tesla or rocket.

The only thing he did at tesla was fund it and take it over from the founders. His great ideas since have resulted in numerous recalls and investigations and his latest is a expensive rusting death machine that is sure to get him sued.

SpaceX he has almost entirely stayed out of and the only thing he did is fund it .

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While he is a putz as a person, sometimes funding a crazy out there idea that everyone tells you is stupid but you fundamentally believe is a good course can be transformative. Remember the hundred+ launches per year of old space? Yeah me neither. Believing it was a valid solution, even if you didn't sit at the CAD station yourself isn't the same as doing nothing. Steve Jobs didn't build things at apple but there would be no mac, iPhone, iPad, etc without his belief that it was the way to do it, and applying apple's funding towards making them reality.