• jramskov@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Of course he didn’t do it himself, but according to people that actually worked closely with him, he’s not exactly stupid and actually knows quite a bit about both.

    Why he’s behaving so stupidly and handling Twitter so badly, I have no idea - he’s really a jerk.

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      1 year ago

      he’s not exactly stupid

      That may or may not be true.

      and actually knows quite a bit about both.

      That I doubt. He has no formal training in either field and it’s not something you can just pick up.

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        1 year ago

        You can find videos with him discussing rocket engines in details - he’s spent years working together with a lot of brilliant car and rocket engineers. He (again, not alone, of course) somehow managed to build a successful car company and a successful Space company. Both things are by all accounts very difficult. Not likely to be done by a stupid person.

        I fully agree he’s a jerk and I would never want to work for him, but that doesn’t mean he’s stupid or that I can’t be impressed by what SpaceX has achieved.