Elon Musk did not found Tesla.
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Elon is not a visionary, nor the founder
False. He sees grift opportunities nobody else can.
But yeah, he's not the founder.
Elon musk did not found Tesla. He bought it and then wrote in his name as founder.
Elon Musk is not visionary. He is more of a "let me pretend to create this dumb convoluted thing that would not work, but seems like it might" type of asshole.
Not a visionary and not the founder. Just an investor.
In point of fact, he bought the title of “founder”. Seriously - look it up.
Well, maybe his assholeness makes up for the other two parts of the criteria.
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Musk isn't even the founder of tesla though.
Good meme regardless.
Yep, he invested in the existing Tesla company, and then forced them to list him as a founder.
If Elon Musk is the founder of Tesla, then Stalin was the founder of Berlin.
He's not a founder, or a visionary. The rest is spot on, though.
Yeah I was about to say the same thing.
You can call Linus a lot things but stylish is a bit of a stretch.
Or quiet
Source: ask Nvidia
Well, a hand gesture is pretty quiet.
Style is arbitrary. He's stylish if enough people say he's stylish.
Visionary?
for steve jobs and elon musk it is indeed wrong, they are both blinded by capital, there is no vision, only greed
Jobs might have been a massive cunt, but he absolutely pushed Apple to innovate. They haven't really done anything innovative since Jobs died besides the VR headset.
You're wrong on Steve Jobs.
Steve Wozniak made the Apple I design, after which the Apple Industrial Design Group took over, with Jerry Manock at the helm. Jerry Manock together with Terry Oyama made the Apple II, III, and early Macintoshes, with Jobs on the side.
That design team also had Bill Dresselhaus (responsible for the Lisa) and Rob Gemmell (responsible for the Apple IIe & IIc) who worked alone on their designs with Jobs simply signing off on them after having seen them.
The Snow White design language which was iconic for Apple's style throughout the late 80s was developed out of house by German-American Hartmut Esslinger's Frog Design. Again, Jobs simply signed off on them and let the design team do their thing.
Jobs was more of a business strategist and knew he could put his face and name to the product so people would flock to it. This focus on making money over just making good products was why Wozniak had a falling out with him.
Tl;dr: innovation came from other people. Jobs just put his name and face to it.
There's a difference between having a vision and personally creating it.
I fully acknowledge that Jobs was not an engineer and did not create any of the devices, but the person running the company has a great deal of influence on the people doing the work.
Jobs pushed his people to innovate while Cook just had them pump out iterative garbage. He's still a shit human, but Apple wouldn't be in the position it's in without him.
besides the VR headset
I completely forgot something like that even exists.
It's also wrong for St Linus. He was a college student trying a project for fun when he started. Part of what makes Linux great is that it isn't something made from the ground up to change the world or to be its founder's career. It was an interesting project that was so useful it wound up being adopted and evolving into what it is
He was visionary for knowing that he couldn't do it all alone but instead of making a company he open sourced his project.
Not sure Tesla goes up there in legendary projects. Don't get me wrong I have issues with apple too, but they've released several mechanically interesting products. Tesla released a few and has now fallen behind BYD. Their reign was simply too short in comparison to the other projects imo.
Musk also didn't found it
As far as I knows, Linus dropped that asshole founder mode, and moved on. There was a write up by him, how the linux conference and his holiday plans got overlapped, which forced him to rethink a lot about himself. Great person.
Linus has made a lot of great strides the last idk couple years or so bettering himself and his attitudes towards things lol
I think his ability to see the problems in the way he acted, and then actually act on it, even when a bunch of people encouraged it, is impressive.
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JB guy is literally two-face from batman
Not sure "asshole" is right for Torvalds...maybe there's another word to describe him...
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I knew without clicking 😁
No Stallman?
It's the same image, but with a new colum titled "Stallman"
A man for every C-suite
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