Who's really running Spacex, Tesla, and Twitter? You know, someone who actually keeps the lights on.
Who's really running Spacex, Tesla, and Twitter? You know, someone who actually keeps the lights on.
For SpaceX it has long been Gwynne Shotwell, she's the reason it works in spite of Musk.
Ok, Elon, what do you want to name the rocket?
"Marsfucker. Now take some suggestive promo pictures of me with it in the background so it looks like my penis."
Kind of surprises me cause I thought he’d be too sexist for that.
Tss, he's telling her how it's to be done, of course!
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From what I can tell from the outside:
- Linda Yaccarino Is the CEO of X so presumably her
- Gwynne Shotwell definitely runs SpaceX
- Vaibhav Taneja and Tom Zhu seem to run Tesla (but Elon obviously designs the trucks)
- Steve Davis is CEO of The Boring Company
- Jared Birchall is CEO of Neuralink and CFO of xAI so he’s probably running both
I have little to no respect for the man but Elon’s real job is raising money, which isn’t nothing. Start up CEOs often spend a lot of their time raising money and networking while the company is unprofitable. Tesla might be the only one that’s mature and turns a profit. (SpaceX could be profitable and it’s Falcon launch division probably is but between Starlink launches and testing Starship, I’m guessing the company is still in “start up mode” and losing money.)
Raising money? Aren't companies suppose to generate money? Didn't twitter lose a large portion of its ad revenue?
Start ups usually lose money while they’re getting established. You have build the product, hire the team, and then get customers. So, you lose money for several years — which is why Angel Investors, venture capital firms, etc. exist.
Take a novel medication, for example. You aren’t making a dime until you get FDA (in the U.S.) approval and so you do fundraising rounds to hire staff, do clinical trials, scale up manufacturing, etc. Then, once you get approved, you (ideally) make a fortune.
Ideally for the early stage investors (and staff that was partially compensated in shares), you “make an exit” — get bought by a bigger company or go public. And that’s when everyone gets paid. If a company stays private forever, you repay early investors with dividends or share buybacks (or everyone is just sort of fucked and waiting for an exit). Shares in a private company have value on paper but no store takes SpaceX shares as a payment method.
The question I'm asking myself is: don't people who work for a Musk company want to resign? I'd feel sick to my stomach going to work every morning.
I feel that way even not working for Elon. I do it because I need money.
My cousin works for Tesla and he absolutely despises Musk and the company, but he makes way more than he could anywhere else and is able to work remotely from his home in Canada. He also just bought a house so he needs that money.
He's got the golden handcuffs
Are there people who don't feel that way every morning?
I don't. I like my employer, they like me. My company isn't involved in anything disgusting or morally questionable. The products we make aren't used for military purposes. The owners of the company are nice, decent, hard-working people.
I have a decent salary but probably below par for my age and experience. But the pleasure of waking up every morning looking forward to go to work outweighs the difference.
I dunno... Maybe I'm a minority.
I teach recent immigrants the language spoken here and work at a medium sized chain bakery. Both are pretty good.
I don't like where I am for a variety of reasons but not even close to being so severe that I feel sick going to work or about what my work is contributing to. I had that experience once(in college) and quit within a month...thankfully I could at that point. But I would never stop looking for something else if my job sucked that bad.
Probably pays really well. Well enough to forget your conscience.
A ton of underpaid exploited workers.
Yes. People stay for the stock options. The base salary at Tesla is a joke.
We might not know who is but we do know who isn't.
Elon Musk in-between his full-time job of grinding on his PoE 2 character
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I don’t really care because until The Problem is addressed, I will not support anything they do.