Tl,dr: Musk is irratic and has no plan, per a journalist who has covered him for five years.
“It’s remarkable how many people who’ve never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who’s run Tesla and SpaceX,”
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.
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 someone who can figure out how to build spaceships can figure out how to distinguish scrapers from legit users. The patterns must be so different.
