HACKER Q&A
📣 wasimsk

Is Elon Musk Overrated?


I saw people debating on Elon's contribution in his company's success. On X, Reddit and Instagram—People debate a lot about it.

Can anyone clarify this to me?


  👤 nness Accepted Answer ✓
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👤 pixel_popping
You might not like the guy, but anyone thinking Elon Musk is "dumb" is out of his mind and just straight up narrow-minded, we are talking about one of the richest person on the PLANET,you don't accidentally become the richest man on the planet by being dumb. That takes brains, vision, and an INSANE amount of risk-taking that 99.9% of people on this earth could never even fathom (even if they pretend so).

👤 FrankWilhoit
Don't talk about Musk. Talk about the universal failure of skepticism that makes anyone like him possible.

👤 anovikov
Well, at least success of SpaceX that was achieved in the industry that was considered a basket case overall, and unapproachable by private entrants in particular, is beyond doubt. He brought US space launch industry from a heavily struggling laggard progressively more dependent on Russians and quickly losing competence and capacity, to a complete world domination, all while consuming very little capital or engineering resources.

👤 rvz
Depends who you ask.