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Even if the concept of ‘self made’ wasn’t complete bollocks, Musk wouldn’t qualify as one anyway due to the startup capital from his father.
It would be bollocks to someone who has not worked in a business and is in the public sector paid for by taxes of those who do. Wonder what uou would have achieved if someone had given you the small sum of £20,000?
 
always easier to make money when you have a lot of money in the first place though

Easier to lose a lot of money as well.
So Elon Musk is the only person who works at Tesla? Remarkable.

He employed the right ppl and invested in the right areas. In 2008 when he lumped in his entire worth in electric cars, he could have lost it all if the oil lobby had won the political battle.

He writes some idiotic things and some funny things... Just a middle aged man, like most of us, taking his midlife crisis to a billion dollar level... Enjoy it, it's harmless fun.
 
It would be bollocks to someone who has not worked in a business and is in the public sector paid for by taxes of those who do. Wonder what uou would have achieved if someone had given you the small sum of £20,000?

I’ve worked in the private and public sectors.
 
I don't think you can get that rich by not being media savvy. I don't know about smart, that's too subjective.
You can get really rich with no media savvy if you inherit **** loads of money, so you’re already rich, and then turn the already **** loads of money into even more with very good computer programming stuff you’ve had time to learn because you haven’t been having to work at Tesco’s, or wherever, because…you’re already rich.
Neither needs media savvy
 
Through acquisitions and hiring the right ppl, he's turned a few million into X billion in 23 years... Created an international brand, satellite system cheaper and more efficiently than any government could and donates hundreds of millions to charity. Yet he's mostly publicly known and referenced for winding ppl up on twitter.

For some reason, perhaps boredom or being a high functioning autist, he's got involved in social media, to the horror of his investors and Qatar, and seems to be having a laugh getting reactions from millions of social media users in flame wars. Not sure he takes it that seriously and I'll never understand why others do.
I think he started off with more than a few million.
According to his old man they had so much money they couldn’t close the safe and he had pockets full of emeralds too.
 
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Why didn't he just buy a bigger safe?

#therearenoproblemsonlysolutions
1 Current safe not big enough due to heaps of cash and emeralds

2 Buy new safe for some of those heaps of cash and emeralds

3 Have a bigger safe but feel frustrated because your original safe would have been big enough for your newly reduced fortune.

We’ve all been there
 
I think he started off with more than a few million.
According to his old man they had so much money they couldn’t close the safe and he had pockets full of emeralds too.

I don't know what the truth is. You say many millions, someone else says $28000...

The majority of ppl if they inherited several millions would buy a house and live off investments, via a financial adviser, from the remainder, a minority would blow it over a few years, but to create wealth of that level is unique to a few.

Lot of criticism towards an African-American.
 
I don't know what the truth is. You say many millions, someone else says $28000...

The majority of ppl if they inherited several millions would buy a house and live off investments, via a financial adviser, from the remainder, a minority would blow it over a few years, but to create wealth of that level is unique to a few.

Lot of criticism towards an African-American.

musk isn’t African / American unless my colour blindness has upgraded significantly.
 
You can get really rich with no media savvy if you inherit **** loads of money, so you’re already rich, and then turn the already **** loads of money into even more with very good computer programming stuff you’ve had time to learn because you haven’t been having to work at Tesco’s, or wherever, because…you’re already rich.
Neither needs media savvy
But if you don't inherit **** loads? Anyway, even if you do, so you're already rich, what's the incentive to learn to code (it's hard btw), you're more likely to employ folk to do that for you while you swan about glad-handing the media. No?
 
Through acquisitions and hiring the right ppl, he's turned a few million into X billion in 23 years... Created an international brand, satellite system cheaper and more efficiently than any government could and donates hundreds of millions to charity. Yet he's mostly publicly known and referenced for winding ppl up on twitter.
You're underestimating him like so many people. He also makes self-crashing cars and exploding rockets.
 
You're underestimating him like so many people. He also makes self-crashing cars and exploding rockets.

Maybe best not to get polarised either way as it clouds judgement and then go searching for any evidence to back up an already established viewpoint.
 
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musk isn’t African / American unless my colour blindness has upgraded significantly.

He was born in Africa and movrd to America. More African American than people whose parents and grandparents were born in America and who have never been to Africa.
 
But if you don't inherit **** loads? Anyway, even if you do, so you're already rich, what's the incentive to learn to code (it's hard btw), you're more likely to employ folk to do that for you while you swan about glad-handing the media. No?
No
We’re talking about Elon Musk
He did inherit **** loads.
He’s very good at what he’s done though (if you measure success by money) and some of it is hard, and has needed some good decisions, but none of what he’s been successful at needs media savvy.
 
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