Hey, that Elon, he’s quite the businessman!

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  1. Bearack

    Bearack Well-Known Member

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    He's at the giga factory at least twice a week. The dude literally works 120+ hours a week.
     
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    Maybe "Truth Social" took a lot of their users with it's huge success?


    Nah.......
     
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    Glad to hear, but that has nothing to do with my post. The reality is EV competition is going to heat up, IMO, much like the early internet, and Tesla is going to have to roll up their sleeves some more in order to keep up.
     
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    He also has SpaceX which has been very good with their deliverables. Not sure how Musk will respond, but the EV game is going to heat up, that I believe.
     
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    Twitter was not really thriving before Musk. They were losing money 8 of the last 10 years.
     
  6. Andrew Jackson

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    Hilarious...
    Musk? A Major Tool...
    Elon Musk has lost a bigger fortune than anyone in history
    https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/02/investing/elon-musk-wealth/index.html
     
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    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes, Musk and Trump are successful businessmen. Better than some, not as good as others.
     
  9. Think for myself

    Think for myself Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Ever seen anyone take $44,000,000,000 and set it on fire to prove they are more smart than everyone? Now we all have.
     
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    I never said he can't fail. But if you think Twitter going belly up is going to make him poor you're sorely mistaken.
     
  11. ricmortis

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    Mass changes take years to see if Elon succeeds or fails with Twitter. I am the patient type who waits for the end result. Haters only like looking right now crying, "Look, he's bad!" or lovers screaming,"Look, he's good!"

    A smart person will wait and see instead of crying before the final results are in. I don't see that with the OP.
     
  12. Moolk

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    Free speech is worth a few million. Easily. Good job Elon.
     
  13. Condor060

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    Well, lets take a look at his accomplishments.
    1. Co-Founded the electronic payment firm, PayPal
    2. Created X.com, one of the first online banks, founded by Musk.
    3. CEO of Tesla, was an early investor in the company that since became the king of the electric vehicle (EV) industry.
    4. Acquired SolarCity, a residential solar company which combines premium glass roof tiles with energy generation
    5. Founded SpaceX which cut the cost of space transportation more than half
    6. Founded Starlink and is sending satellites into orbit to build a satellite broadband internet network for the world.
    7. Musk, along with German-American billionaire Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, launched Open AI, a nonprofit and open-source artificial intelligence research company.
    8. Musk launched Neuralink, a neurotechnology company, in 2016. His aim was to create brain-machine interfaces linking living brains to human-made technology.
    9. As of February 2023, reclaimed the title of the richest person in the world, per Bloomberg's tally.

    Which affords him the opportunity to purchase Twitter at what Musk considers twice its value just for the sake of removing the leftist ideology from the site.

    Sounds like you don't know a successful businessman when you see one.
     
  14. Noone

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    TLDR and IDC

    I just know what I read in the papers.
     
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    No you don't. You knowingly ignore the actual facts just to make a fake claim because Musk hurt your feelings.
    Nothing more, nothing less.

    Or you can go on record, right here, right now, claiming you never knew of any of Musk successes.
    Because you only know what you read in some paper.
     
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    Lol. Right.
     
  17. Condor060

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    Just wow. It seems the left is so starved for actual facts, they just make up their own. lol
    Musk didn't lose anything. He claimed he bought the company for twice its value. Thats what it was worth for him to shut down
    claims like yours.

    :roflol:Now we know where all those prophecies of Trump going to prison with hundreds of criminal claims came from.
    You think the richest guy in the world is going to be broke before the end of the year?
    OMG
     
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    But that's what keith Olbermann told me!!!
     
  19. Condor060

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    You have to wonder, how many idiotic predictions Olbermann has made that have never come to pass, yet he's still their go to guy.
    I remember a story about a boy who cried wolf and after the 3rd time no wolf was found, nobody responded again.
    So how do you get so many leftist to run up that hill thousands of times, to see no wolf, and are still ready for the call?

    You have to switch the story from people to Pavlov's dogs. Ring the bell and they all salivate.
     
  20. Noone

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    Not reading your personal attack. :bye:
     
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    The fact you thought anyone would buy into that, is hilarious.

    Trying to make a thread calling the richest guy in the world a bad businessman because all you know is what you read in a paper,
    Isn't working. lol
     
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    Go woke, get broke.
     
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    Also depends on your definition of "succeeds" and "fails" and what the timeframe is for "end result". He's obviously completed neither yet, but so far, this entire thing reminds me of this old joke

    SNIP
    A joke is told about the “optimist” who fell or jumped off New York City’s Empire State Building. As he was falling many floors, someone asked, “How’s it going?” He responded:

    “So far, so good!”
    ENDSNIP

    I mean, Twitter still has SOME value today, amiright?
     
  24. BleedingHeadKen

    BleedingHeadKen Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The stock value of the company has gone down by $24 billion. But it's no longer a public stock.

    Leftists whine about capitalist greed and focusing only on the bottom line, then they whine when some capitalist isn't focused on the bottomline and raising the value of the stock. Were he a socialist, Twitter would already be in the ground or propped up with tax dollars.
     
  25. BleedingHeadKen

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    He should probably stick to more entrepreneurial activities and avoid getting into the weeds of business operations.
     

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