I am still glad my natural distrust of billionaires who praise private enterprise as the ultimate expression of progress and freedom paid off… as per usual.
People outside of tech maybe and that’s because non-tech media treat venture capitalists like they want to be treated. Which is that they’re “tech geniuses”.
Really they’re just the money that pays workers and take all the credit for their oversized egos.
If he’d have stuck to buying startups like lottery tickets and kept his mouth shut, 100 years from now people would talk about like how Edison gets talked about to school kids today: no problems mentioned and gets credit for everything
I worked in avionics for more than a decade starting in the mid-00s. It was well-known that SpaceX lured young, naïve aeronautics engineering grads with the promise of working at the next NASA, worked them 80+ hours a week for less than market compensation for 3-5 years, then fired them as they inevitably burned out.
It wasn’t so long ago that everyone was singing his praises. I haven’t seen a reputation squandered so quickly since Game of Thrones.
I am still glad my natural distrust of billionaires who praise private enterprise as the ultimate expression of progress and freedom paid off… as per usual.
That there is a good instinct
Nah.
People outside of tech maybe and that’s because non-tech media treat venture capitalists like they want to be treated. Which is that they’re “tech geniuses”.
Really they’re just the money that pays workers and take all the credit for their oversized egos.
If he’d have stuck to buying startups like lottery tickets and kept his mouth shut, 100 years from now people would talk about like how Edison gets talked about to school kids today: no problems mentioned and gets credit for everything
I’m not a techie but it was clear from the start he’s just an edgy 14 yr old but with money.
I wouldn’t have a problem with that if he’d just own up to it but he keeps acting like some morally superior being.
I worked in avionics for more than a decade starting in the mid-00s. It was well-known that SpaceX lured young, naïve aeronautics engineering grads with the promise of working at the next NASA, worked them 80+ hours a week for less than market compensation for 3-5 years, then fired them as they inevitably burned out.